Ken-When I was a kid i cut baseball pictures out of the newspaper and glued then in a scrapbook. They were newspaper clippings, not cards, and I never thought of them as cards. BTW, we never traded these, and I doubt people in the 19th century traded them either. They are fine to collect and interesting images. However, they are not cards. This doesn't diminish them or elevate them, they are what they are which is cut outs from a newspaper. The same goes for those who cut team pictures out of guides and have them graded. This is fine, but they are not cards either. Good business for the grading companies, but crazy if you ask me.
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