These days, Easter eggs on baseball cards have become rather commonplace, even apart from literal ones. Here is actor/comedian Kevin Hart on a 2024 Topps Trea Turner parallel, for example. A famous Easter egg now nearly (hard to believe!) two decades old is the 2007 Topps Derek Jeter variation that features Mickey Mantle in the…

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15.12.2024

Debunking the Myth of 1948 Leaf: How a Recently Unearthed Lawsuit Proves the Case – SABR's Baseball Cards Research Committee

Rosa and Josefa Blazek were violin-playing conjoined twins from the Czech Republic who toured the United States in the 1920s. Rosa’s 11-year-old son, Franz Blazek, was featured prominently in advertisements used to promote the twins’ performances. Feeling exploited and embarrassed by the oft-used tagline “son of two mothers,” a lawsuit was filed in Cook County,…

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17.12.2024

Playing with the Void – SABR's Baseball Cards Research Committee

I was talking to my friend just a little while ago about this void, this sense of meaninglessness and emptiness that he feels in his life. People fill it with drugs, sex, television, pills, control, power - you name it. And he’s been in the process of slowly but steadily removing these things from his…

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23.12.2024

MLB and NFL Cardboard Crossovers – SABR's Baseball Cards Research Committee

The 2024 NFL season is nearing its end, while a flurry of exciting moves has happened this MLB offseason. The two-sport athlete is not uncommon in the collegiate ranks, and we have even seen a phenomenal two-way player, Colorado’s Travis Hunter, win this year’s Heisman Trophy. Shohei Ohtani will likely pitch in a Dodgers uniform…

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The first baseball card Easter egg? – SABR's Baseball Cards Research Committee

Debunking the Myth of 1948 Leaf: How a Recently Unearthed Lawsuit Proves the Case – SABR's Baseball Cards Research Committee

Playing with the Void – SABR's Baseball Cards Research Committee

MLB and NFL Cardboard Crossovers – SABR's Baseball Cards Research Committee

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