'59 Topps Beaters

I'm slowly poking away at the '59 Topps baseball set.  I'm not pursuing it very aggressively, most of the cards I have are pretty beat up, and I have so few that I haven't even bothered putting together a want list yet.

Here are a few recent additions, starting with my favorite of the bunch, Curt Flood's second Topps card.  Some rounded corners and surface wear added up to me bringing this one home for just a quarter.

Randomly, this is the second time I've seen the word foolhardy used in just the last couple of hours.  Even the write-ups were so much better on '50s cards.

I can't say I'm familiar with all of these guys, given that the set came out more than 20 years before I was born, but for some reason I'm drawn to the cards nonetheless.

The thing that matters most to me when searching out cards for this particular set is centering.

I'll even put up with some paper loss.  Doesn't bother me to have a copy that some kid glued into an album 50+ years ago, in fact there's something kind of cool about that.

Nice frames!

Who knows if I'll ever seriously pursue this one.  I've got way too may hobby-related projects as it is.

In the meantime I'm over 40 cards and counting with this lot in hand, and everything in this post set me back less than $2 combined.  Not too shabby...