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Posted By: davidcycleback

The stone is the printing plate. The original form of lithography was printed from a stone, and the final prints are often referred to as a 'stone lithographs.' Stone lithography is better quality, but, for practical reasons including the weight and size of stones, commercial printers switched to metal sheets as is used today.

So the above stone is not only a unique baseball item, but a historical printing artifact.