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For the Baseball Hobbyist. . .
64 Postcards, each 4" by 6" produced by Marketcom & The Sporting News in 1984 2 BASEBALL AMERICANA Postcard Books: Editions #1 & #2
featuring photographs by Charles Martin Conlon
Following a successful launch of The Charles Martin Conlon photographic baseball cards by The Sporting News (1981), Marketcom (in cooperation with TSN) took over production with a promotional card set of 5 standard size cards and a 60 card set of jumbo-sized cards honoring 1933 American, National & Negro League All-Stars (1983). Marketcom followed up in '84 with another super-sized 60 card set of pre-World War II greats and these 64 postcards in booklet form. Each postcard is perforated for easy removal, if desired.
Postcards in Book #1:
#1 Grover Cleveland Alexander ~ #2 Charles Albert "Chief" Bender ~ #3 Fred Clifford Clarke [actually John Wesley "Colby Jack" Coombs] ~ #4 Tyrus Raymond "Georgia Peach" Cobb (portrait) ~ #5 Tyrus Raymond "Georgia Peach" Cobb (batting) ~ #6 Gordon Stanley "Mickey" Cochrane ~ #7 Charles Martin Conlon and wife Margie ~ #8 John Wesley Coombs [actually Fred Clifford Clarke] ~ #9 Joseph Edward Cronin ~ #10 Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean ~ #11 Joseph Anthony "Jumpin' Joe" Dugan ~ #12 Leo Ernest Durocher ~ #13 James Emory "Jimmie" Foxx ~ #14 The Gashouse Gang (Coach Mike Gonzales, Manager Frankie Frisch & Coach Buzzy Wares) ~ #15 Henry Louis "Lou" or "Iron Horse" Gehrig (portrait) ~ #16 Lou Gehrig (batting) ~ #17 Charles Leonard "Mechanical Man" Gehringer ~ #18 Vernon "Lefty" Gomez ~ #19 Robert Moses "Lefty" Grove ~ #20 Stanley Raymond "Bucky" Harris ~ #21 Harry Edwin Heilmann ~ #22 Rogers "Rajah" Hornsby ~ #23 Cornelius "Connie Mack" McGillicuddy ~ #24 Henry Emmett "Heinie" Manush ~ #25 Richard W. "Rube" Marquard ~ #26 Christopher "Christy" Mathewson (hands on hips) ~ #27 Christy "Big Six" Mathewson with child ~ #28 Christy Mathewson (hands over head) ~ #29 George Herman "Babe" Ruth (swinging, looking up) ~ #30 Babe Ruth (portrait) ~ #31 Babe Ruth (swinging, looking forward) & #32 Paul Glee "Big Poison" Waner
Postcards in Book #2:
#1 Ty Cobb (famous sliding photo) ~ #2 Ty Cobb (holding bat with hands apart) ~ #3 Charles Martin Conlon (the famed photographer himself) ~ #4 Lou Gehrig (portrait) ~ #5 Lou Gehrig (batting) ~ #6 Waite "Schoolboy" Hoyt ~ #7 "King Carl" Hubbell ~ #8 Miller Huggins (with wood Coca Cola box for his seat) ~ #9 Walter Johnson ~ #10 Umpire Bill Klem ~ #11 Frederick William Luderus (hands on bat) ~ #12 John Leonard "Pepper" Martin ~ #13 Christy Mathewson (horizontal portrait) ~ #14 Christy Mathewson (pitching) ~ #15 Joe McCarthy ~ #16 John McGraw ~ #17 Fred Merkle ~ #18 Bob Meusel (horizontal view) ~ #19 Mel Ott ~ #20 Roger Peckinpaugh ~ #21 Herb Pennock ~ #22 Babe Ruth (batting) ~ #23 Babe Ruth (portrait) ~ #24 Al "Bucketfoot" Simmons ~ #25 Tris Speaker ~ #26 Casey Stengel ~ #27 Bill Terry ~ #28 Harold "Pie" Traynor ~ #29 George "Rube" Waddell ~ #30 Honus Wagner ~ #31 Lloyd & Paul Waner (Little & Big Poison) ~ #32 Lewis "Hack" Wilson (dodging the high hard one!)
Two booklets of Classic Charles Martin Conlon photography in postcard (64 of them) format displayed in two booklets of 32 cards each
Shipping includes insurance.
Condition: New, never used - Excellent-Plus/Near-Mint
Note: The reverse of each card is standard divided back postcard style with brief summary of the pictured player's major league career, copyright information, stamp box and Baseball Americana/Conlon Collection logo.
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