This beautiful card depicts a flame thrower who liked to throw a few back, and possessor of one of the best names in MLB history, Van Lingle Mungo...

“The Dodgers traveled around the league in ridiculed obscurity. But Mungo was famous and exciting, and they would bring him into a city advertised to pitch against the other club’s best. All over Brooklyn, people would stop ball writers. ‘How’s the arm?’ they would ask. They seldom mentioned Mungo’s name. There was only one arm in Brooklyn.” - sportswriter Jimmy Cannon

(“Van Lingle Mungo Is Set to Music,” New York Post, August 4, 1970)

1936 R312 Connie Mack & Lefty Grove. ⭐
This card is scarcely seen and seldom talked about in the hobby in spite of featuring two legendary Hall of Famers.
Connie Mack and Lefty Grove’s time together with the Philadelphia Athletics in the late 1920s and early 1930s produced one of the most dominant stretches in baseball history. Mack, the legendary manager and master talent evaluator, acquired Grove from the minor leagues in 1925 and carefully developed him into the era’s most feared left-handed pitcher. Grove’s overpowering fastball and competitive fire anchored the A’s pitching staff during their American League pennant runs from 1929 to 1931, culminating in back-to-back World Series titles in 1929 and 1930 and a narrow loss in 1931.

1936 R312 Johnny Mize.
The OG Big Cat, true rookie card.