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Originally Posted by Butch7999
The word you want for that "thing" is "game." They were sold, as everyone knows, as complete sets,
in often attractive boxes, with playing fields and markers and a booklet or page of rules and instructions,
not collected a card at a time like proper "baseball cards." It kills us to see these great old games ruined
by being broken up to be sold off for parts. It seems no different than buying just the 3 of clubs or the
6 of spades from a regular deck of playing cards, or a leg from one chair in a set of Stickley furniture.
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that is an entirely fair and valid point. But, I happen to completely disagree with it - because; if it weren't for the baseball players making it collectible; it would have almost certainly held little to no value, and thusly would not be nearly as well preserved as it now is. So, in sticking with your analogy - if it weren't for the people that wanted that 3 of clubs; the game would likely be gone and forgotten completely.