1936 R312 National Chicle Premium Pastels ⭐ Benny Frey
Benny Frey reveals the human side of professional baseball, which makes this card as meaningful as any in my collection.
At 5-feet-10-inches tall and 165 pounds, Benny was not an imposing figure on the hill. Batters found him to be hittable and as a professional he always surrendered more hits than innings pitched. He was never much of a strikeout pitcher; his major-league high was 43 in 245 innings.
At the beginning of the 1937 MLB season, Benny was demoted to the minor leagues. He retired at that time and returned to his home, in Michigan.
In November 1937, the despondent Benny committed suicide.

2021 Leaf Art Of Sport Enshrined Exhibit, Pete Rose #2/2 👑 All-Time MLB Hit King
I loved Pete Rose as a baseball player.
He was one of my childhood favorites.
I also love the sick patches in this card.
Collect What You Love.❤

1954-55 Cincinnati Reds Postcards, Nino Escalera Portrait to Neck ⭐ Autographed MLB Barrier Breaker
This is a throwback to when Team-Issued cards were cool.😎
Nino Escalera is credited with breaking the color barrier for the Cincinnati Reds, but he never had a mainstream playing days card.
The closest you'll get and the only MLB playing days card you will find of Nino is this 1954-55 Reds team-issued postcard.
Collect What You Love. ❤

1921 Exhibits A. Earle 'Greasy' Neale ⭐ Reds Great
One of the all-time great athletes from the early 1900's and a very scarce card.
Alfred Earle "Greasy" Neale was a legendary sports pioneer, recognized as the only person in history to play in a Major League World Series, coach a team in the Rose Bowl, and be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
As a multi-sport athlete, he starred in college basketball, played early professional football alongside Jim Thorpe for the Canton Bulldogs, and spent eight seasons as an outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds, leading them with a .357 batting average during the infamous 1919 "Black Sox" World Series.
He later cemented his football legacy on the sidelines, coaching Washington & Jefferson College to a scoreless tie in the 1922 Rose Bowl and leading the Philadelphia Eagles to back-to-back NFL Championships in 1948 and 1949.
Famous Nickname: Neale revealed it actually originated from a childhood name-calling match in Parkersburg, West Virginia. After Neale poked fun at a neighborhood friend's untidy appearance, the friend fired back by calling him "Greasy" because Neale had briefly worked as a grease boy in a local rolling steel mill. The moniker stuck for the rest of his life, to the point that he refused to change it even when Ivy League officials at Yale later asked reporters to refrain from using it.

Best #TeamUsa set ever. So glad I got this one in paint.