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Posted By: S Gross

If you can, try to locate a copy of Nelson Algren's "The Silver-Colored Yesterday." It has a great story of the author growing up as a Swede Risberg fan (with his autographed bat) in North Chicago. Shunned by the local gang, he was forced to play RF, where: "... The worshipers of false gods hit scratchy little National League bloopers. There wasn't one honest-to-God American League line drive all summer."

It also has a great reference to strip cards:
"The Tobey of that committee was a sprout who had a paying thing going, for weekdays, in the resale of colored paper-picture strips of major-league players. He bought them ten for a penny and resold them to us for two, making himself as high as a dollar per week ..."

Hmmmmmmmmm .... flipping cards for a profit, not a bad idea ....