This is one of the traditions that the Topps baseball cards have never lost. The baseball card war between Topps and Bowman was entering the decisive battle of 1954. Most are about th.e size of a credit card. I don’t imagine you could have actually picked up t.he pair for $1. Chances are your grandparents and perhaps even your great grandparents could collect these tidbits of baseball trivia as they were packaged with caramel as well as tobacco as early as the late 19th century. I don't have a clue yet, but maybe you can help me out. Topps must have been displeased with the coloring of cards in the first run using black ink on the backs. Due to a lack of well-recognized sets and card quality, this era in baseball history usually gets overlooked by collectors.
