Thread: Info Checklist for 1960/61 Pirates Horne's Department Store Set
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Old 03-08-2014, 09:01 PM
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Originally Posted by DaClyde View Post
There were Joseph Horne Co. ads in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for the appearances. Luckily that's one of the papers Google has in their newspaper archive:

http://news.google.com/newspapers

September 15, 1960, on page 19, the ad says Clemente, Dick Stuart, Bill Mazeroski and Smoky Burgess were to appear. Should just take an hour or two to dig out all the appearance notices to build complete checklists (barring any missing issues of the newspaper).
Hi Jason:

THANKS!! A GREAT reference! never knew this existed. Now I get to spend MORE HOURS in front of the computer!

Fred
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