This background is so much a part of this set’s character that I felt like I had to have one represented in my Football binder.ġ964 Philadelphia cards are like 1965 Topps baseball cards in that they the card backs are blue with a prominently-featured cartoon which makes up a visual clue for a trivia question. Most of the Cleveland Browns photos in this set have this Cadillac in the background, and the common wisdom is that it’s HOF running back Jim Brown’s Caddy. Of the cards I was looking for from this set, one target had nothing to do with whose card it was, but rather whether there was a Cadillac in the background…

Even though I have no illusions of collecting the sets, I couldn’t resist dropping a couple of bucks on this group.

The 1960’s Philadelphia sets have become a recent source of fascination for me, both for their simple but colorful designs and for the non-Topps-ness of the cards. So anyway, while going through a box at this show I ran across a team bag of eight well-loved cards from 1964 Philadelphia Gum Football. I’ve been thinking of somewhat changing my cheapskate tendencies but that’s a topic for an upcoming post.

This is because, for over a decade, we in Shlabotsylvania didn’t have a show within a 90 minute drive… So now that we’ve got a show that actually *comes back* on a regular basis, I get a little free with my spending… Relatively speaking, of course, I’m still a cheapskate. So there’s this local card show I bend over backwards to support.

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