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Originally Posted by bgar3
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I personally don’t care whether or not something is a baseball card, I care more about the historical significance of the subject or image..….
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I think bgar3 (quoted above) summarizes it best. For me, being more a memorabilia collector than a card collector, the value of the Magnolia card has nothing to do with whether the hobby characterizes it as a card. I value it because it is a depiction of pre-Knickerbocker baseball, as well as support for the notion that the Knickerbockers original rules were more a formal codification of a game that was already being played than the creation of something entirely new.
Jay, BTW, whether you own something or not has no bearing on your assessment of the item, correct?
