Thanks for the kind words, Barry--all the best to you too.
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Are the backs the first use of the phrase to "Baseball's HOF"?
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Not exactly. While others can chime in with any earlier examples, the Weil backs from 1916 technically would have been preceded in their use of the HOF reference by the m101-5 Holmes-to-Homes set, which was issued several weeks prior.
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If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other. - Ulysses S. Grant, military commander, 18th US President.
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