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Article: Library of Congress Web Site Offers More Than 2,100 Early Baseball Cards On-Line
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- September 30, 1998
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 /U.S. Newswire/ -- More than 2,100 baseball
cards, depicting some of the most famous players in the sport,
are on view at the Library of Congress American Memory Web site
at www.loc.gov/.
The cards show such legendary figures as Ty Cobb stealing
third base for Detroit, Tris Speaker batting for Boston and
pitcher Cy Young posing formally in his Cleveland uniform. Other
notable players include Connie Mack, Walter Johnson, King Kelly
and Christy Mathewson.
The images can be seen in the "Baseball Cards, 1887-1914"
collection. Baseball cards first became popular in the 1880s
when tobacco companies used them to stiffen the small, soft
cigarette packages and promote sales. ...