COMC Sundays: Five from the 50's

For the one person out there who enjoys these Sunday posts, I apologize for skipping last weekend, being too tired is the only excuse I have for doing so. But I'm coming off of a whole seven hours of sleep, so today's edition should be a breeze.

When I finally got my COMC stash at the end of last year, I was a bit perplexed by the inclusion of the cards in today's post. I say perplexed... because I truly didn't remember buying them.

At first I thought that I had gotten someone else's cards, but after looking at the invoice, I found that I had indeed bought these, like in January and February of that year, which I guess made sense, but still... how was I supposed to remember items that had been sitting in my account for almost a year?

1956 Topps always gets a lot of love, but you don't see too many people waxing poetic over the '55 set. I'm probably in the minority when I say this, but taken as a whole, I think that the 1955 set is better -- although if you were judging strictly on individual cards, than I'd say that '56 gets the nod.

I recently mentioned that I had stopped collecting a number of vintage baseball sets, mostly stuff from the 60's, and after over a month now, that was a decision that's starting to look better and better.

I have known for awhile that I can enjoy getting cards from the 30's and 40's without feeling like I have to try and complete the sets, but only just recently have I realized that cards from the 50's apply to that same thought process. I can't explain it, but for whatever reason, I can't seem to just enjoy owning cards from 1960 and on for what they are, without feeling like I have to complete the sets. I know that this probably makes no sense to anyone reading this, but for the time being, that's just how things seem to be... hopefully at some point though I'll be able to enjoy cards from the 60's without feeling the need to complete their respective sets.

In the same post that I talked about ending my pursuit of 60's sets, I also mentioned wanting to possibly try and take all of my existing cards from those abandoned sets, and use them to start a PCL collection. I'm still on the fence with that idea, but if I do end up going forward with it, the cards in today's post would fit nicely into that collection as all five guys played in the PCL at some point in their careers -- Bobby Adams (Portland and Seattle), Murray Wall (Seattle), Joe Frazier (Vancouver and Spokane), Les Moss (San Diego), and Marv Grissom (Sacramento and Seattle).


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