1953 Johnston Cookies Milwaukee Braves Complete Set (25)

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The arrival of the Braves in Milwaukee in the spring of 1953 signaled the start of a whirlwind romance that would help reshape the Major League Baseball landscape, and though the team would be gone from the Midwest in a mere 13 years, it would go down in baseball history as a legendary franchise marked by great accomplishment amid even greater – perhaps even unrealistic – expectations. The flurry of regional baseball card issues that surrounded the team in those first years were a nice barometer of the kind of frantic enthusiasm that beset the good folks of Wisconsin, and the Johnston Cookies cards were at the forefront of that allegiance. In 1953, the inaugural issue was 2 9/16-by-3 5/8-inch cards with colorized black-and-white photographs. The cards are essentially Ex-Mt to Near-Mint, presented here in an attractive old-fashioned style album with the protective corner notches to mount the cards. The Don Liddle card in this instance has been signed.