Night Owl Cards

The pursuit of 1956 Topps is a slow one for me. I wouldn't even call it "deliberate". It's more like "plodding". If I stumble across a '56 card that I need, then I will be happy to add it to the collection. But since '56 Topps cards never pop up during my daily errands, nor do I think to search them out during my very sporadic bouts of online shopping, I often must rely on the kindness of semi-strangers. Robert of $30 a Week Habit recently sent three '56s my way. They are all very interesting, as each '56 Topps card tells a story that modern day cards can't. One of my favorite stories from the Bobby Hofman card here is that although it's intriguing that Hofman appears to be washing the baserunner's face with the ball, Hofman didn't have a lot of experience behind the plate. In fact, out of the 341 games he played in the majors, only 26 can be documented with Hofman catching. He was mostly a second baseman. Th...