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Posted By: <b>Daniel Bretta</b><p>Picked this up off of ebay last week and just got it today...it's an advertising standee for the 1896 Spalding Baseball Guide.<br /><br /><a href="http://imageshack.us"><img src="http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/2821/spaldingdisplay001small9xs.jpg" border="0" width="640" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://imageshack.us"><img src="http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/6014/spaldingdisplay003small9kn.jpg" border="0" width="320" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us" /></a>

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Posted By: <b>Tom Boblitt</b><p>5 in the set.......<br /><br />Baseball<br />Football<br />Golf<br />Bicycling<br />Tennis<br /><br />I have all of them but bicycling..........(anyone out there?)<br /><br />p.s. your's is in nice condition. You generally see the bat broken off the top pretty frequently.

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Posted By: <b>Daniel Bretta</b><p>The bicycle was on ebay last week and sold for $51. The seller had the entire set on in seperate auctions.

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Posted By: <b>fkw</b><p>The set of 5 "Spalding Sports Players" is listed as H818 in the ACC.

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Posted By: <b>drc</b><p>They appear to be scraps with advertising, perhaps a trade card-- though I don't beleive trade cards were die cut like this. There are 1890s non-sports scraps with advertising on them also. They Spaldings are scarce and, as noted, often found with parts broken off.

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Posted By: <b>Daniel Bretta</b><p>Thanks for the info fellas...I had no idea these had a catalog designation.

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Posted By: <b>Zach Rice</b><p>All that needs to be said on the set has pretty much been said. They're neat little diecut cards, I recently bought the same one you did with a $40 BIN on ebay <img src="/images/happy.gif" height=14 width=14>. You have to be careful with them though, it is not uncommon for the head or tip of the bat to break apart from the rest of the card.

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Posted By: <b>Daniel Bretta</b><p>$40??? That's a great deal. Is the bat intact on yours Zach?

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Posted By: <b>Anonymous</b><p>there is a set just listed on e-bay today.<br />seller is asking a touch more than $40 each.<br /><br />happy hunting.

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Posted By: <b>Daniel Bretta</b><p>Got a link to that auction? The only one I could find was a complete set for $1,250.

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Posted By: <b>peter ullman</b><p>that would be the one dan...he was being facetious?!<br /><br />pete in mn

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Posted By: <b>Daniel Bretta</b><p>Ah...thanks Pete. My sarcasm meter got unplugged this morning. <img src="/images/wink.gif" height=14 width=14>