I asked this in an earlier thread but never got a response:
Was it common for players to get press pins? I have an All-Star Game Press pin from the '30s or '40s that was in possession of my grandfather, Billy Sullivan, Jr., who was a player at the time (but never an All-Star). I always wondered why he had it. Does it mean that he might have been acting in some journalistic capacity at the All-Star game, or were these pins just given out to players that asked for them or invited as a guest?
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