Alex Rodriguez - 1998 Paramount SPORTSFEST EMBOSSED
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Brooks Robinson Baseball Cards
ABOUT BROOKS ROBINSON
- Brooks Robinson holds the major league record for games played at 3rd base (2,870).
- He also holds records for Double-Plays turned (618), Putouts (2,697) and Assists (6,205).
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- Robinson played in 18 All-Star Games, only Hank Aaron, Willie Mays and Stan Musial have played more.
- He was AL MVP, All-Star Game MVP and World Series MVP. Frank Robinson is only other player ever to win all 3.
- His nicknames "Mr. Hoover" and "the Human Vacuum Cleaner" were well-esrned.
- Brooks is generally considered to be the greatest defensive third baseman ever.
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Barry Bonds, Outfielder, Pirates & Giants
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Barry Lamar Bonds, former baseball left fielder, played 22 seasons
in Major League Baseball with the Pittsburgh Pirates and San
Francisco Giants, earning seven NL MVP awards and 14 All-Star
selections, and is widely considered one of the greatest baseball
players of all time.
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How long have sports cards been around ? (part 1)
The first baseball trading cards date back to 1869. For many years,
baseball cards were packaged in packs of tobacco as a way to increase sales
the same way that today prizes are packaged in boxes of cereal.
In the 1920's and 1930's, candy and gum companies started packaging baseball
cards in their products as well.
Baseball card production was virtually halted in the early 1940's due to paper
shortages created by World War II. The "Modern Era" of baseball cards began in
1948 when Bowman Gum Inc. offered one card and one piece of gum in a pack for a penny.
The first important football set was the Mayo set featuring college players
in 1984. Other than the 1935 National Chicle set no other key football set was
issued until 1948 when noth Bowman and Leaf produced sets.