The Baseball Scoops set was put out by a company called Nu-card in 1961. The set has 80 cards, but they are numbered from 401 - 480. They don't have a team listed, so the team sets, like the Fleer sets of the same era, are pretty arbitrary.
This could be a Cubs or Giants card. It talks about a mistake made by a Giants player, though he did it in a game against the Cubs. The picture used on the card was from a few years after the play, when Merkle played for the Cubs, another reason to consider this a Cub card.
The ten year old version of me would have paid big money (like a week's allowance) for that Merkle.
ReplyDeleteThat is deeply weird to have a card about Merkle's boner with him in a Cubs uniform. But I suppose 1920 photos aren't easy to come by.
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