Holiday surprise from The Best Bubble

Got a surprise holiday package from The Best Bubble. Lots of fun cards and non-cards in there!

Starting off with the cards. Highlights include a Steve Kemp autograph, a TCMA card of Joe Pactwa, who never made the majors, a couple of 80's reprints of '50s cards, and two Don Mattingly oddballs! 

Bob also included a 1971 Yankees schedule! Great seeing the old Stadium in one of it's last years. Cool that they chose a bunt for their photo.

The inside tells you wear you could buy a ticket throughout the NYC area, including calling Yankee Stadium at CY. 3-6000.

The back has an ad for Schaefer beer. 

There were also these really cool scrapbook-like index cards chronicling the career of Elston Howard. It looks like they may have been started sometime in the mid-1960s and the owner kept with it over the years, or perhaps they just used some old materials they had access to later on. Bob - if you have more info on these, would love to know the backstory!

There seemed to be an order, starting with this card with a great action photo of Howard, a photocopy of the Yankees logo, and Howard's head cut off of a 1962 Topps league leaders card! 

These seem to have been arranged like pages in a scrapbook.  A couple of nice dated photos of Howard as a catcher.

The next "page" has a cutout of a newspaper article of Howard in his Red Sox uniform. Howard was traded to the Red Sox in August of 1967 and was a key factor in them winning a surprise pennant that year.

The scrapbooker even colored in Howard's red socks! The next card chronicled Howard's years as a Yankee coach and his untimely death in 1980.

The back of that card has cutouts of Howard from several other team photos. Finishing off with a photocopy of Howard's 1958 Topps card.