We all know Larry's story. Second to Jackie Robinson in the MLB and the second MLB manager behind Frank Robinson. He also played in Japan in the early sixties. He has been one of my favorite subjects in this blog. I've made a few cards of him already. Here is a '55 Bowman, a 1963 Menko, an Alt-Topps MLB Dream Bracket card and a 1978 Topps manager card. These all made appearances on my blog going back as many as 9 years.
I had floated the idea of the 1947 Bond Bread card on Twitter. Most liked it and thought it captured the era accurately. The only complaint was the photo I had originally used. Someone pointed out that it was already used on a 1979 TCMA card. It actually was used by TCMA again in 1984 and 1986. In all, I found over a dozen cards that used that same photo, including several from Fleer and Topps. This version uses a magazine phot from that era. I can't tell if it was colorized or just the print quality of the magazine. At least I haven't found it on any other cards. Yet.
That '55 Bowman has a beautiful view of the old Yankee Stadium scoreboard and the Bronx Court House.
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