My editor Justin Moen emails another query from out there in the hobby:
Bobby Bazzell, who has worked with both Bob and I in the past, has a St. Louis Cardinals photo book and he would like to know exactly what it is.
The actual photo book is blue-gray in color, with CARDINALS at the top. There’s a picture of a bird, bat, and ball in the middle, and 1953 below the picture. The writing and picture are red in color. The book is about 3-1/8″ x 4″. There are 29 black and white photos that are about 2-1/8″ x 3″. The photo holders accordion out from the front and back of the book, and the photos are on the front and back of each accordion strip. There are no names or statistics. He was guessing that they may have been sold by vendors at the ball park in 1953. He also thought they were a team issued item or team authorized item.
I took it to Bob and he was not familiar with it. Since there were no names or statistics, it didn’t seem like a team issued or authorized item to him, but it also doesn’t look like an average Joe Cardinal fan from home did it either, since the photos are very high-end in quality, and the whole thing looks professionally done.
Does this sound familiar with this and can shed light on what it is, and how we can catalog it?
We will get a scan up ASAP.
