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Originally Posted by BaltOrioles
When Cal Ripken Jr was in Bluefield, they actually had a color and B&W program. Maybe Bill knows the story behind it. I'm sure it wasn't the fact that someone saw a HOF career in Ripken's future. Probably ran out of one and switched to the other. I'm not sure which came first. Here's the B&W version.
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Alan:
I was hoping you would know lol....I could surmise that the B&W ones came out later in the season only b/c my team signed, colored one (see above) has both Bob ("Robert") Bonner & Mike Boddicker signatures on it....Bonner was called up to Charlotte w/o ever getting into a game at Bluefield while Boddicker only pitched in a handful of games before moving up as well..
The B/W one also has player photos inside....There was a warehouse find of these programs in the late 80's and they really aren't that difficult to locate (though some people still put crazy money on them)..