I'll keep this short. It's been a long week, I'm not pleased about some things, and I don't want to risk accidentally straying into vintage cards and inadvertently offend someone by my critique of their condition. I received this lovely item from Smed . It was slipped amid the bounty sent my way in his fit of spring cleaning. I appreciate the gesture more than I can say. Most people on ebay call this a bat relic. Smed called it a bat relic, too. It probably is a bat relic. Of course, the back of the card doesn't call it anything. It's merely termed a "Certified Relic Card of Jackie Robinson." To me, since the relic seems to be wooden in nature, that reference, as it is worded, implies that Jackie had a wooden leg, since the relic is "of Jackie Robinson." I have to say I have never read any reference of Mr. Robinson having a wooden leg in all my readings about him. Yes, I know I'm being silly, but humor me for a second. Sin...
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