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Old 02-24-2015, 08:59 AM
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Amazing article! Its very interesting that the author was concerned with the condition of his cards, and was against "shooting" them. I wish he would've elaborated on where his "thousands" of cards ended up.
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He even mentioned one could send in coupons and receive a cabinet card of a favorite player. Fantastic article!
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I looked up Arthur H. Folwell in the 1900 census and found that he was born in November 1877, so he would have been nine years old when the first Old Judges came out in 1887, the same age I was when I started collecting baseball cards.

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great article...he even mentions western league players being issued by OJ!
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Thank you for posting..............a very interesting read.
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Fun read.

I, too, found the comment about the Brooklyn card a little odd. Many collectors today gravitate to those for the added element of reality.
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A time machine and a few rolls of nickels would do a man good.
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Old 01-27-2019, 12:50 PM
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Default Baseball Nostalgia Expo creative editing!
In your introduction Dave, you mention you are not sure the article hasn't been adjusted. You are correct, the original article did contain a variety of cards, not just baseball. See snapshot below.
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I made a copy of the original article from the New Yorker website. The text seems to be the same, but the images were mostly changed.

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Thanks - good to see the two versions (original and baseball updated) side by side!
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