Young parents are always fascinated by their child's tendency to play with the box the toy came in, or the wrapping paper, instead of the actual present. Well, I have a collecting version of that. This fine, oversized card arrived from Mark Hoyle. It is one of two "bonus" cards that came with the 1979 TCMA Baseball History Series, a set of 291 cards that is one of the greatest-looking TCMA sets ever made, as it evokes the '53 Bowman style. One of the bonus cards shows the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers championship team, obviously above, and one shows the 1957 Milwaukee Braves championship team. If you ordered the complete set, you got the two bonus cards. That's all well and good and it's fun to pick out Newcombe and Campy and Snider and Jackie. But what I was really excited about was -- no, not the envelope -- but the page it came in. See? I've already allocated it for my oversized, postcard-sized cards. This is the four-pocket page and it's...
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