1947-66 Exhibits Supply Company Baseball ⭐ Team Cards
These cards represent a large black-and-white photographic record of the actual World Series era of 1948–1956, when baseball was still overwhelmingly America's national pastime, television was in its infancy, and many of the players pictured were living heroes, who can actually see without a magnifying glass.
The team cards also have a wonderful documentary character. They aren't trying to make the players look glamorous. They're presenting the team. A collection of men assembled together for one particular moment in baseball history.
And the timing is superb:
1948 — Cleveland Indians / Boston Braves
1949 — New York Yankees / Brooklyn Dodgers
1950 — New York Yankees / Philadelphia Phillies
1951 — New York Yankees / New York Giants
1952 — New York Yankees / Brooklyn Dodgers
1953 — New York Yankees / Brooklyn Dodgers
1954 — New York Giants / Cleveland Indians
1955 — Brooklyn Dodgers / New York Yankees
1956 — New York Yankees / Brooklyn Dodgers
That's essentially the heart of the postwar baseball dynasty era—the Yankees appearing in eight of those nine World Series, with the Dodgers and Giants representing the great National League powers of the period.
There is another wonderful historical wrinkle: team cards weren't even part of the original 1947 Exhibit configuration; they were added in 1949.
