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Originally Posted by nat
Tomorrow it will probably be something different, but for today it's this postcard. It pictures the University of Wisconsin team on their 1909 tour of Japan. The card was sent by one of the players to his friend back home in
Wisconsin. "Peck" Nash was the team's backup pitcher. He didn't appear in the game pictured on this card, but the team's main pitcher got injured during the following game and Nash pitched the rest of the tour.
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What an amazing piece of history! Early US college baseball tours of Japan (UWash, UWis) made huge impact on their local game and current Japanese pro teams trace back to a prewar college league. Hope you never lose that card!
My own choice might be this Mantle RC that SGC said NO to. :-)