(March sucks. Is it April yet?... And on that note, it's time for Cardboard Appreciation. This is the 103rd in a series): When a baseball legend dies, you do what you can as a card collector. You find the finest cards you have of the player and show them off, figuring the greatness of the card will reflect the greatness of the subject. That's what I did when The Duke of Flatbush died on Sunday. But there are lots cards of Snider that didn't appear on 1949 Bowman stock or were even created in the 1950s. There are cards of Snider worth pennies. Leafing through the giant Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards, I became all too aware of how many cards exist of Edwin Donald Snider. Many of them aren't worth much at all. I have some of those cards, Not a lot. But they are among my favorites, and there is something kind of a cool about having a card of a '50s superstar that is worthless ... monetarily speaking anyway. Here are just a few: This is one of se...
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