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Recreation Faces: Early Baseball Playing cards from the Library of Congress

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A captivating present e book showcasing baseball playing cards from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries alongside pictures from the early days of the nation’s beloved pastime

Recreation Faces showcases uncommon and colourful baseball playing cards from the Library of Congress’s Benjamin Okay. Edwards Assortment, bringing to life an period of American historical past that noticed the sport explode in recognition. Marrying gems from the gathering’s 2,100 baseball playing cards to photographs of American life from 1887 to 1914, the e book additionally gives participating insights into the gamers and the sport, giving readers an intimate view of each baseball’s improvement and American tradition on the flip of the 20th century. The e book highlights playing cards depicting most of the recreation’s first stars–including Ty Cobb, Cy Younger, and Christy Mathewson–as nicely as much less broadly identified figures, proven with extravagant ornamentation and boldly juxtaposed colours that render the playing cards artworks in their very own proper.
Recreation Faces is a wealthy, engrossing historical past of the baseball card and the ways in which it has illustrated and influenced American tradition as an entire. It’s a must-have for individuals who love baseball.




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Michael ‘King’ Kelly, outfielder and catcher, Chicago White Stockings.

Ten Million, outfielder, Victoria Bees, 1911

Christy Mathewson, New York Giants, 1911, Gold Borders (T205)

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