This volume contains full-color, detachable facsimile reproductions, both front and back, of 92 authentic baseball cards.
Collectors, baseball fans and students of popular culture will treasure the pictures of these great players who were elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame: Willie Keeler, Rogers Hornsby, Cy Young, Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, John McGraw, Casey Stengel, Branch Rickey, Charles Comiskey, Joe Cronin, Babe Ruth, Earle Combs, Dazzy Vance, Lou Gehrig, Dizzy Dean, Walter Johnson, Lefty Grove, Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Hank Greenberg, Ernie Banks, Mickey Mantle, Warren Spahn, Jackie Robinson, Stan Musial, Sandy Koufax, Roberto Clemente, and many more. Ninety-two of the 175 men elected so far to the Hall of Fame appear in this collection.
Called “the guru of sports collectors†(Christian Science Monitor), Bert Randolph Sugar is a noted editor and author. Besides numerous magazine articles, Sugar is the author of many books, among them The Sports Collectors Bible, Who Was Harry Steinfeldt? & Other Baseball Trivia Questions, and “The Thrill of Victory†(The Inside Story of ABC Sports).