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1865 baseball card found in Maine to be auctioned
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Six-figure bids are expected when an auction house sells a rare 148-year-old baseball card that was discovered at a yard sale in rural Maine, the auction house manager said Wednesday. A man found the card by chance in a...
Tags: Libraries, Baseball, Babe Ruth, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Politics
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Mother-Son Book Club
We are a group of mothers and sons in Riverside who have met since summer 2002. Our sons were all friends entering fourth grade, and one of the moms suggested starting a book club for the boys. We all thought she was crazy because we didn’t think...
Tags: Orson Scott Card, J.K. Rowling , Clubs and Associations, Ray Bradbury, Fiction
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Black Males Must Aim For Academic Top
The Hartford Courant"As anyone who has watched the better colored teams will tell you — a good many Afro-Americans belong, on their merits." John Lardner in the Hartford Courant, Nov. 11, 1938. With opening day of the 2013 baseball season just days away, a 75-...Tags: Baseball, Bo Jackson, Sports, Little League Baseball, USA Today
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Pirates' McCutchen deals with stardom in stride
AP Sports WriterBRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — Andrew McCutchen walked to the podium, brushed back his trademark dreadlocks, unfolded a sheet of paper and took a deep breath. The Pittsburgh Pirates All-Star centerfielder looked across the massive ballroom at the...Tags: Justin Verlander, PNC Park, Clint Hurdle, Willie Stargell, Barry Bonds
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37 rare baseball cards found in Ohio attic to be auctioned at Baltimore convention
It was like something out of a Hollywood movie — a musty attic in a stately old home, a forlorn-looking dollhouse perched against one wall and underneath it, a mysterious dust-covered box wrapped in twine. But what Karl Kissner and his cousin,...Tags: Paulina Gretzky, Baseball, Today (tv program), Sports, Oriole Park at Camden Yards
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'Epic' Baseball Card Collection Sells Big at Auction
KTLA NewsTOLEDO, Ohio (KTLA) -- Century-old baseball cards discovered in an Ohio attic sold big at auction. Karl Kissner, the executor of his aunt's estate when she passed away found 37 rare baseball cards in mint condition underneath an old doll house in the...Tags: Baseball, Ty Cobb, Sports, Cy Young Award, Auction Service
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Baseball cards from 'Black Swamp Find' fetch $566,132 at local auction
In the Orioles Banquet Room overlooking Camden Yards on Thursday night, $566,132 was exchanged for 37 baseball cards that a family almost threw out with the garbage in March. The cards were part of the so-called “Black Swamp Find,” named...
Tags: Baseball, Wetlands, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Sports, Auction Service
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Honus Wagner baseball card auctions for $1.2 million - a bargain?
In 1908, baseball great Honus Wagner was planning to retire from the Pittsburg Pirates, but the Pirates owner was so anxious to keep his star that he doubled Wagner's salary -- to $10,000. Wouldn't Wagner be shocked to hear that a 1909 baseball card...
Tags: Arizona Diamondbacks, Baseball, Sports, Auction Service
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New Jersey man buys rare baseball card worth millions
KIAHAmerica's pastime rings up millions on Friday, April 20. A New Jersey man, whose name hasn't been released yet, shelled out $1.2 million for a rare 1909 Honus Wagner baseball card, placing the highest of 14 bids in St. Louis on Friday, April 20. The...Tags: Baseball, Sports
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'Ball Boys' Robbie Davis Sr explains why a Honus Wagner is such a big deal
From Inside the Box"The average person can visualize [himself] and want to be a baseball player. To be a football player you need to be 300 pounds, and for basketball you need to be 7 feet, but in your mind's eye you can be a baseball player."... -
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Wild, weird side of baseball
BURBANK — A mask with a baseball still lodged in the face guard that was used by one-eyed umpire Max McLeary; Ron Santo's partially burned toupee; the costume head of the San Diego Chicken and a box of balls with the forged signature of Mother...Tags: Ty Cobb, Hobbies, Ron Santo, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Dec 28, 2011
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Aug 12, 2011
|Story| Glendale News Press
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