Bubbling over with generosity

I got a fantastic surprise package from The Best Bubble. The package had cards and publications.

Each of these vintage cards is a high number or semi high number.

My first two cards from the 1994 Miller Lite Brewers set, and an autograph of Jay Tessmer, who was on the 1998 WS champion team.

On to the memorabilia. I'm not a stamp collector but I'll certainly hang onto this!

This was a 2004 advertisement for a Yankee Stadium painting. The advertisement is nice enough by itself.

1973 Old Timers Day Program! Here is the front . . .

. . . the middle . . .

. . . and the back.

Finally, a 1979 reprint of the 1947 World Series program. This was a limited edition reprint, #698/1000. This was the program sold at Ebbets Field so there is a lot more Dodger content than Yankee content. The cover has a variety of Brooklyn landmarks.

I haven't read the whole thing yet but I certainly enjoyed the vintage ads. I won't bore you with all of them, but I had to share a few. The Dodgers lineup had a Chesterfield ad with Perry Como, still pretty young at the time (35).

This is quite a risque ad for 1947. Remember what "park" meant at the time.

Here's the Yankees Chesterfield ad, with their current star Joe DiMaggio. He only had six hits in the Series but two were home runs.

"First World Series No-Hitter Yet to be Pitched". That's cool. It's funny how much information on the financials there was - this was actually one of two such charts in the program.

Wear a hat! Read the ad copy for some of the great health benefits to keeping your head covered.

Some of you might enjoy this bit about the Dodgers training academy.

Here are the text and the captions, as well as the bios of the teams' legendary announcers.