“You don’t have to collect vintage baseball cards to get a kick out of The Cracker Jack Collection. Tom and Ellen Zappala, the authors of The T206 Collection take fans back to the Deadball Era, long before $100 million contracts, when players had to hustle off the field as doctors, laborers, cigar makers and vaudevillians to afford to play the game. If you’re looking for fresh yarns to tell during the next raindelayed game, you’ve come to the right place.”