By BABE WAXPAK, Scripps Howard News Service

Dear Babe: I recently came across 24 Homogenized Bond Bread cards. After some research, I'm still confused. These 24 cards are supposedly from a set of 44. They are in excellent condition and measure 2.25-x-3.5 with sharp corners and are blank on the back. I believe $180 was paid for them. -- Ray Bonanno, Montclair, N.J.

Dear Babe: I just came across a 1946-47 NY Giants autographed baseball (I've verified 12 of the 14 signatures), and the only anomaly was Cid Gordon, spelled with a "C.'' I know zero about sports, but I've had the ball for about 38 years. My mother was a waitress in an upscale restaurant in Boston during the 1940s and 1950s that the Red Sox liked to frequent.

Dear Babe: My uncle has two rain checks going back to 1909. One is a 1909 Boston American League Baseball Club Rain check and the other is a 1911 Boston America Ball Club (Trimont Press). -- Greg Zoia, Nashua N.H.

Dear Babe: My husband has a book, "The Rhubarb Patch'' that Jackie Robinson signed. There is no dust cover on the book but it is in perfect condition. -- Marcia Howland, Anderson, Calif.

Dear Babe: I have a card with a team picture of the Red Stockings B.B. Club of Cincinnati on one side and a cartoon on the other. It's signed by Andrew Peck. It's from 1869. I also have an 1868 Atlantic Nine card. They are from the collection of my grandfather, Charles W. Mears, known as Doc Statistics in the Cleveland, Ohio newspaper. He was a huge baseball fan and collector.

Dear Babe: I have an 18-x-29 inch poster of Pistol Pete Maravich that I laminated. It is autographed in the upper left hand corner and has the ticket stub attached also. On Dec. 5, 1973, the Atlanta Hawks played the Kansas City-Omaha Kings at Omaha Civic Auditorium. It was "Pistol'' Pete Maravich night.

Dear Babe: My husband, Ed, has a signed baseball. His dad worked part-time at Ebbets Field as a concessionaire and would ask for the autographs. The ball is signed by Art Fowler, Carl Furillo, Wally Moon, Norm Larker, Johnny Podres, Gil Hodges, Charles Neal, Walt Alston, Rip Ripulski, Pee Wee Reese, John Roseboro, Jim Gilliam, Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax among others.

Dear Babe: My husband, Ed, has a signed baseball. His dad worked part-time at Ebbets Field as a concessionaire and would ask for the autographs. The ball is signed by Art Fowler, Carl Furillo, Wally Moon, Norm Larker, Johnny Podres, Gil Hodges, Charles Neal, Walt Alston, Rip Ripulski, Pee Wee Reese, John Roseboro, Jim Gilliam, Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax among others.

Dear Babe: I have a Rockford Peaches hat from the Hall of Fame with the signatures of four women from the Nov. 5, 1988 induction. The hat is signed by Ruth Richard, Alice Desihanice, Joan Berger and Jean Uamjuin Maminc. Who were these girls? -- Don Ryan, Merrimack, N.H.

Dear Babe: I have a Rockford Peaches hat from the Hall of Fame with the signatures of four women from the Nov. 5, 1988 induction. The hat is signed by Ruth Richard, Alice Desihanice, Joan Berger and Jean Uamjuin Maminc. Who were these girls? -- Don Ryan, Merrimack, N.H.