Despite the negative being reversed, I think this is one of the best cards ever made, and I have one! Way back in the early to mid-1980s, I was visiting one of our older women in my church. She knew I collected cards, and her son, who was a boy in the 1950s, also had collected cards. He had left his small collection with her, and she asked if I wanted to look through them. I never passed up a chance to look through cards (and I still don't). My eyes must've been bugging out of my head looking through some these 25 to 30 year old gems. She finally said, "if you see any cards you like, you can have them." I said, I guess all isn't an option even though I had none of them, and she said some is okay, not all. So I pulled out the names I knew (which were HOFers) and Phillies. It was a small stack, maybe 20-30 cards, but just the Phillies cards made my day. I got home, and looked up the values in a price guide and my eyes bugged out all over again. The prices on the cards I brought home were staggering. I called her up and explained the situation. I told her I would bring them back as soon as possible. She said that she appreciated being told everything, but returning them wasn't necessary, she had given them to me with the intention of me keeping them. I have kept every one of them since that day. (This was one of them.) The unfortunate thing about the cards was the fact that evidently the boy back then must've kept them in a scrapbook or something like that and most of the cards had tape (or residue) on the top and bottom of each card. This one was one of the rare ones that spared from that fate.

The first of the Silver Slugger cards I obtained. I liked what I saw when I saw it online, so I bought it. Then when I had it in hand, I realized just how great these cards (mini trophy cases) were - and I had to get at least the Mike Schmidt. Then the other HOFers. Then the other players we collect. I did at least stop there. Maybe one day I'll go for it and just complete the set. Yes, that is how much I like these cards, and the Murphy was the one that started that. Murphy and Schmidt were always my 2 favorite players back in the 70s and 80s - and they still are.

One word - Snoopy! And yes, I bought this card simply because Snoopy was on it. Thankfully, I found a pretty good deal on it.

Received in the stack with the Aaron, this one had tape on top and bottom, and it basically has rendered the card to be very damaged. I do enjoy the simplicity of the 1951 Bowman set. This one depicts the follow through of a swing that put a lot of baseballs safely in play.

One of the rare cards in my collection where I have no clue where I got it. As someone who never really knew Clemente when he was alive, I heard a lot about him throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s. As I learned about him, I respected him more and more, both for what he did on the field as much as what he did off the field. Most people know his actions off the field (and hence the reason he died so young). I prefer having cards of HOFers from their playing days and this is wonderful oddball food issue from what is now a long time ago.