National Game, Tom Barker, Polo Grounds sets

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Originally Posted by phikappapsi

... but they aren't really "baseball cards" so much as they are their own thing that I'd classify as baseball card-adjacent.
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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.