Baseball, Baseball Cards, King Kelly, Marcel Proust, Tobacco.
baseball game, ca. 1909. Photograph by National Photo Company. If Marcel Proust had been a boy in the 1950s, as I was, he might have written of baseball cards, rather than of madeleines and lime-blossom tea, in his Swann’s Way. No sooner had the colored cardboard touched my palm than a shudder ran