Troops: Cards

In World War II, chocolate and cigarettes were hot trading items. Today, U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf may swap baseball cards. Topps, the industry leader in BASEBALL TRADING CARDS, stamped the first 5 million cards it printed for the 1991 season with a gold “Operation Desert Shield” logo. The special-edition cards were wrapped in traditional wax paper packaging--with, of course, that flat stick of pink chewing gum.