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Posted By: Chris Counts

It's not quite the movies or television, but this seems like a reasonable place mention the appearance of baseball cards in the "Peanuts" cartoon strip. In particular, I remember a strip that mentions by name dozens of early 60s players that Charlie Brown found in card packs in his search for an elusive Joe Schlabotnik (forgive me if I spelled it wrong). I'm guessing this was in about '62 or '63. For what it's worth, there's another strip that has Linus mourning over the last out of the '62 series (McCovey's line drive to Richardson), proving, at the very least, that Linus was (is?) a Giants fan.