Vintage Baseball Cards
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VINTAGE BASEBALL CARDS By the turn of the century, baseball was firmly entrenched as ‘America’s In the early 1900s, baseball cards were produced by tobacco and candy Presented here is a selection of resized, faithfully reproduced baseball game’, as proclaimed by the poet Walt Whitman and famously paraphrased companies as advertising and marketing tools. One of the earliest major cards—fronts and backs—from that rare T206 American Tobacco Company in the film Bull Durham in 1988. By the time of the film’s premiere, baseball sets ever produced was by the American Tobacco Company, starting with set, courtesy of the Library of Congress, Benjamin K. Edwards Collection, card collecting was not far behind the game as a popular cultural pastime. the T206 White Border Set in 1909. The most valuable baseball card in donated by Carl Sandburg in 1954. We hope you enjoy this journey history, the T206 Honus Wagner card, comes from this set. back in time. Each card is perforated for easy removal card is perforated for Each Clip & Collect 1 A gallery of 8 perforated vintage baseball cards Check out the complete series on our website ÅSgard Å press www.asgardpress.com Old School Is Now in Session.® Vintage Baseball Cards Plate 1 Item #: BBC19PK01 ISBN-10: 1630365823 ISBN-13: 978-1630365820 Complete back cover reproductions on the reverse of each card ©2019 Åsgard Press, Wilmington, DE 19802. All rights reserved. Printed in Korea Facsimile reproduction by Asgard Press Asgard by reproduction Facsimile Press Asgard reproduction by Facsimile Press Asgard by reproduction Facsimile VINTAGE BASEBALL CARDS By the turn of the century, baseball was firmly entrenched as ‘America’s game’, as proclaimed by the poet Walt Whitman and famously paraphrased in the film Bull Durham in 1988. By the time of the film’s premiere, baseball card collecting was not far behind the game as a popular cultural pastime. In the early 1900s, baseball cards were produced by tobacco and candy companies as advertising and marketing tools. One of the earliest major sets ever produced was by the American Tobacco Company, starting with the T206 White Border Set in 1909. The most valuable baseball card in history, the T206 Honus Wagner card, comes from this set. Presented here is a selection of resized, faithfully reproduced baseball cards—fronts and backs—from that rare T206 American Tobacco Company set, courtesy of the Library of Congress, Benjamin K. Edwards Collection, donated by Carl Sandburg in 1954. We hope you enjoy this journey back in time. $6.95 Facsimile reproduction by Asgard Press Asgard by reproduction Facsimile Press Asgard by reproduction Facsimile Facsimile reproduction by Asgard Press Asgard by reproduction Facsimile Press Asgard reproduction by Facsimile Press Asgard by reproduction Facsimile.