Surprise cards from The Best Bubble

Got a nice surprise package of cards from Bob who writes the best bubble.

Lots of oversized cards of various kinds. The postcard-sized cards are interesting, hadn't seen their like before. They're blank-backed, but one is postmarked. They're not in TCDB but I consider them cards. The paintings are on silk glued to the paper.

A variety of legends on modern cards. That filmstrip-like card of Andres Galarraga doesn't look like much in regular lighting . . . .

. . . holding it up to a light gives it a much better effect. Fun card!

Several Yankee parallels and inserts A while back I had admired a Robin Venture card from this Score insert set, with cool red foil and a great photo of Comiskey. I hadn't thought to look at what a Yankee card from that set looks like. Great, unusual photo choice with the 161st Street subway station clearly visible behind the left field bleachers.

A couple of fun 1970s oddballs, a 1970 Kellogg's Bobby Murcer and a TCMA "War Years" card of Swede Johnson, who pitched for the Yankees in 1944.

There was one more item that was truly vintage, this fantastic matchbook put out by the Macke vending machine company with a contest to win free World Series tickets.

Here's the inside. Unfortunately there is no date, presumably the entry blanks at the vending machines would have had a date, but I couldn't find any information online. This style of matchbook is almost certainly 1930s, though.