Tobacco cards: Small but big fun

In the mid 1980s, I became interested in tobacco cards. As is the case with a lot of collectors that dive into that facet of the hobby, T205s were, and are, my favorite cards. I was born in Brooklyn in the 1940s so I’ll let you guess which team I followed when I was young. After the 1957 season when New York went from three teams to one, my trips to Yankee Stadium became more frequent as I followed the most successful team in the history of Major League Baseball.

Collecting Highlanders/Yankees and Superbas/Dodgers (their earliest names) tobacco cards has been a lot of fun. If you are a Hal Chase fan, the Yankees T206 team set is what you are looking for; he has five cards. Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb both had Hal “The Prince”