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Posted By: The Other One (Julie)

whether something is a card or not? I mean, we argue for HOURS about whether thee or four things are cards, schedules or part of an album. Some of these things have numerical designations--but the E.R. Williams game cards do not. So: why is it important whether things are cards or Something else? The only thing I can figure out is that the card designation will somehow positively affect their value. This, in spite of the fact that people hasten to say "It's a schedule--but worth every penny anyone could possibly charge for it."

Now this "McPhee Scorecard" (1/2 size)is not a scorecard , in spite of the fact that it SAYS so right on the cover. It is an "1888 Cincinnati Base Ball Club Program," This is only the cover of an 8-page accordian-folded program, which consists largely of advertising (so what else is new?), and somewhere in those 8 pages is a page--not on cardboard, but on paper-- on which to score a game, and (perhaps) a schedule of the games the team will play that year. The "Scorecard" designation is left over from 2 years earlier, when a similar artfact was published, but with only a front and back cardboard piece, one of which was the scorecard.

So whaddaya call that? And who cares; I'm just glad to have it.