Baseball cards do an excellent job of teaching history, and I believe they're still doing a good job even today. Topps is the king of this tradition, carrying it from its early days -- when just about every card company was about history -- into its current sets. With complete career stats, tribute cards to past greats, and sets like Heritage and Allen & Ginter, the historical aspect of cards is alive and well (sorry, Upper Deck, you didn't kill it in the early '90s). But there is one aspect that I wish Topps would bring back. Yup, the Turn Back The Clock subset. Subsets are a funny thing. Sometimes they are annoying interruptions in your quest to complete the set. "Why do I have to collect this stupid Father's & Sons series? I just want to see what Dave Parker's card looks like this year!" But sometimes they're fascinating, and for me, the Turn Back The Clock set was fascinating. A number of collectors in their 30s remember Turn Bac...
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