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Posted By: Chris Counts

When I first started collecting stadium postcards, I was surprised by how many early 20th century Polo Grounds postcards I saw. At first I figured they were fakes, but later I discovered they're just very common. Yankee Stadium postcards from the same era seem to be quite common as well as a few others. Other ballparks, like Ebbets Field and Fenway Park, seem much tougher to find in vintage postcards ...

By the way, I've seen Polo Grounds postcards with postmarks from the late 30s ... and they still have the McGraw photo in the corner (he died in '34). Like the Dodgers postcards from the early 1960s (which were still on sale in the 1980s), they must have made a ton of them ...