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With the arrival of my 2025 program in today’s mail, I now have a “complete” set of World Series programs from all nine Dodger championships, their shared title in 1890 notwithstanding. I say “complete” in quotes because of something I learned in building this collection. For many years, the Fall Classic had two different programs. … href="https://sabrbaseballcards.blog/2025/...

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You really don’t need my review to know this book is a terrific read. All you really need is the book’s full title. ONE SPLENDID SEASONBaseball and America in 1912Told with the Words and Images of theHASSAN TRIPLEFOLDER SET After all, if the marriage of one of baseball’s most storied seasons on record and one … href="https://sabrbaseballcards.blog/2025/11/16/review-of-one-spl...

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A tobacco card, The Saturday Evening Post, the Atlanta fire of 1917, and the U.S. Army all play a role in this story.  If you’re a collector of baseball cards or collector of anything old, you may have wondered about the stories the card or object could tell.  It is what often comes to my … href="https://sabrbaseballcards.blog/2025/11/13/if-old-cardboard-could-talk/...

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For those unfamiliar with 1909-11 Obak (T212) cards, they are essentially the West Coast counterpart of the T206 set. Released over the same three-year period, the set includes 426 different cards comprising 271 different subjects across the Pacific Coast League and Northwestern League. For the most part, artwork was very similar to T206 in terms … href="https://sabrbaseballc...

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Before the Mariners there were the Milwaukee Brewers and Seattle Pilots, the evanescing expansion team from 1969.  Lasting only a single season, the Pilots flew off to Milwaukee during spring training under the new ownership of a car salesman and future MLB commissioner Bud Selig after declaring bankruptcy in April 1970.  The MLB had rushed … href="https://sabrbaseb...

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