#91 Ebba St. Claire
68 of 274
24.8% complete
"His Walk About" - Ebba appeared in 164 games over 4 seasons in the bigs. A .249 career hitter, he knocked out 7 homers and 112 hits. His best season was his rookie year in '51 when he hit .282 and drove in 25 runs while collecting 62 hits in 72 games with the Boston Braves. In three subsequent seasons he would drive in 4, 5, and 6 runs respectively.
"That's Not a Knife" - It's a baseball family. Ebba's son Randy St. Claire would play for 9 major league seasons as a pitcher, mostly with the Montreal Expos.
"More of a love bite really..." - There's some off-centering and the right edge of this card as a sort of a frayed cut, something I've read was due to dull blades at the shop. I've also read that the hyper sensitive "codition nerds" don't view this as a defect. It's things like that, that keep me firmly in the great/okay/not great school of card grading.
"Down Under" - Ebba is card #393 in the '52 set and not one that I own. The cards appear to be very similar, but I'll give the slight edge to the '52 due to it's dark green backdrop. That cuts the '53 set's lead to 25-22-7.
"At the Oscars"
3rd NL Range Factor/9inn as a C '51
4th NL Stolen Bases Allowed as a Catcher '51
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