1954 Topps Baseball Card Set

"1954 was the first in a number of years of peace in the US. The Korean War had ended. The USSR would test a nuclear weapon and the Cold War would start, though no one knew it at the time. After one hundred years of colonial rule, France was forced to leave Vietnam, having been defeated by Communist forces. The Baseball Card Wars continued en masse with Bowman and Topps battling for cardboard supremacy. The effect of the baseball card war was felt big time by the diminished sets of each combatant. Each set was watered down by players that could be considered missing in action. The Topps set would include only 250 cards." Vintage Baseball Card Blog