Wow! Omar “Turk” Lown! I remember having several Topps Turk Lown’s baseball cards in the 50s. The market for guys like Lown was flooded. But try finding a Musial or a Mays? Forget about it.
I grew up in the Bronx. When Turk became a White Sox, and they were in town, I often got tickets right behind the visiting teams dugout, down the 3rd base line. great seats...put your feet up on the dugout seats. I would walk with my Godmothers daughter, who was my age to the bullpen and talk with ‘Uncle Turk’. but later, mostly, by myself, I walked behind the Yankee dugout and drank in the visage of Mickey, Yogi, Whitey, Roger, Elston, Moose, Tony, Bobby, Gil, Enos, all led by Casey...and the rest.
ps. I got a 1956 Cubs team ball from my Godmother for my birthday. it included Turk Lown and Ernie Banks,’Mr. Cubs’ ‘Lets Play Two’... the whole cubs team
when I moved out of my parents house my kid brother played baseball with it. all gone. nothin’ left but genuine horsehide.