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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Ted Zanidakis</b><p>Let's try to complete a "virtual" set of 1941 Play Ball cards. Since there are only 72 in this set......<br />it has the distinction having one of the highest ratios of HOFers/cards of any major BB set....21%<br /><br />As you all know, it was the last major BB card set issued prior to WWII. But, that did not end the<br /> production of bubble gum trading cards. The Bowman Gum Co. (GUM, Inc.) switched to issuing a<br /> WAR Gum series from 1941 till the end of 1942. The last card in this series depicts the battle of<br />Stalingrad, that ended Feb 1943 with the defeat of the Germans, at the cost of 1.5 Million lives.<br /><br />OK, I will start this "set" with my Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio....so, we have 70 more cards to<br /> show....let's see your 1941 Play Ball's. <br /><br /><br /><img src="http://i529.photobucket.com/albums/dd339/tz1234zaz/a1941playballtwjd1943.jpg"><br />1941 - Dec 1942 WAR GUM series<br /><br /><br /><br />TED Z<br /><br /><br />
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>dennis</b><p><a href="http://s97.photobucket.com/albums/l239/dcc1/?action=view¤t=playballs.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l239/dcc1/playballs.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Anthony N.</b><p>Is it cheating if we do 12 at once?<br /><img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/griffins/uncutsheets/large/41PB.tif.jpg"><br />
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Joann</b><p>The only one I own, but here it is. I like to think it's Tiger Stadium in the background. I also like the various shades of blue theme.<br /><br />Joann<br /><br /><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1224949463.JPG">
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Brian Goldner</b><p><img src="http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p233/jujudrum/LX3GICA4PPVNLCAATR3IHCA0NHK6SCA1GMT.jpg">
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Ken Wirt</b><p>Here's mine:<br /><br /><img src="http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s290/triwak/53.jpg"><br /><img src="http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s290/triwak/57.jpg"><br /><img src="http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s290/triwak/81.jpg"><br /><img src="http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s290/triwak/106.jpg"><br />
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>AndyH</b><p><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1224954133.JPG"> <br><br>Thanks,<br /><br />Andy
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Chris Counts</b><p>Here is a trio of Dodger pitchers ...<br /><br /><img src="http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e278/ccmcnutt/41wyatt2.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e278/ccmcnutt/41hamlin2.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e278/ccmcnutt/41higbe2.jpg">
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Steve</b><p> 1941 was such an exciting year for baseball and the World. To imagine this is the last set kids collected for nearly seven years. I don't have one myself... These have terrific artwork and except for the JJax perhaps, a long ways from the prior year's issue, as exhibited by the identical Joe D pose.<br /> <br /> Don't be shy about posting any dupes of this last prewar set on the BST please.<br /><br />
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Anthony N.</b><p>Might as well keep the family together<br /><img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/griffins/1941playball/PB61%20copy.jpg"> <img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/griffins/1941playball/PB63%20copy.jpg"><br />
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>dennis</b><p>here's a wrapper,not mine (wish it was!)<br /><a href="http://s97.photobucket.com/albums/l239/dcc1/?action=view¤t=playballwrapper.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l239/dcc1/playballwrapper.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Ol' Prof</b><p>A couple of Yanks:<br /><br /><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1224963708.GIF"> <br /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1224963684.GIF"> <br /><br /><br />The prettiest card in the set (yeah, even better than Joe D.):<br /><br /><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1224963724.GIF"> <br /><br /><br />And a former president:<br /><br /><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1224963780.GIF">
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Ted Zanidakis</b><p>Four great HOFers from the Hi# series......<br /><br />I think we now have included scans of all the 15 HOFers in this set.<br /><br />I love the Bill Dickey card, it is one of my all-time favorite BB cards.<br /><br /><br /><img src="http://i529.photobucket.com/albums/dd339/tz1234zaz/a41dickeyreesekleindoerr.jpg"><br /><br />TED Z<br /><br />
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>JimB</b><p>What a great looking set! Wish I could contribute to this thread. <br /><br />Anthony, that sheet is off the charts!<br />JimB
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>DMcD</b><p>Absolutely love this set. Great artwork and some great ballplayers in defining images. Got some great nicknames (Gunboat Gumbert, Soupy Campbell) and three Dimaggios! Hard to pick a favorite. The Foxx is awesome. Really like the Keller. For some reason my favorite is Indian Bob Johnson, probably because it reminds me of the E90-1 Rebel Oakes "Out of the Box" image. <br /><br /><img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/kawika_o_ka_pakipika/bbbofsfirstclass/1941playball/websize/23%20Johnson.jpg"> <img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/kawika_o_ka_pakipika/bbbofsfirstclass/holygrailcards/websize/Scan154.jpg"><br /><br /><br />One of my backburner projects is to load my '41 Play Ball set to my photo site. It is presently a work in progress. A lot of the cards swiveled in the scanner and need to be re-shot so the album is "all kine hemajang" which is Hawaiian for TARFU. Anyway have a look (chance 'em): <a href="http://imageevent.com/kawika_o_ka_pakipika/bbbofsfirstclass/1941playball" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://imageevent.com/kawika_o_ka_pakipika/bbbofsfirstclass/1941playball</a> pw=aloha<br /><img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/kawika_o_ka_pakipika/bbbofsfirstclass/miscellanybaseball/icons/DSC06275.JPG"> <img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/kawika_o_ka_pakipika/bbbofsfirstclass/miscellanybaseball/icons/DSC06276.JPG"> <img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/kawika_o_ka_pakipika/bbbofsfirstclass/miscellanybaseball/icons/DSC06277.JPG"><br />Steve FDNY: These are my dupes. If you see anything you want let me know and I will help you out. Ask and ye shall receive. (I will move this over to the BST if anyone gets their knickers in a twist).<br /><img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/kawika_o_ka_pakipika/bbbofsfirstclass/miscellanybaseball/websize/DSC06279.JPG"><br><br>Um. Wow. Vintage cards, scantily-clad Dutch people, uku-zillion penguins, authentic Polynesian maidens, surfing Obama and more at . .<br /><a href="http://ImageEvent.com/kawika_o_ka_pakipika" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://ImageEvent.com/kawika_o_ka_pakipika</a><br />Password=aloha
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Ted Zanidakis</b><p>It's good to see another Play Ball collector who has his cards in plastic sheets in an album.<br /><br />Nice photos.<br /><br />TED Z<br /><br />
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Ted Zanidakis</b><p>The 1941 Play Ball cards were available in four different colored wax packs which included a large piece of <br />BLONY bubble gum. The Bowman Gum Co. changed its bubble gum's name to Bowman after WWII.<br /><br /> Missing here is the Yellow version, which is the toughest to find. Perhaps someone out there will provide a <br />scan of the Yellow wrapper. I can't seem to find mine.<br /><br /><br /><img src="http://i529.photobucket.com/albums/dd339/tz1234zaz/aw1941playballgrn.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i529.photobucket.com/albums/dd339/tz1234zaz/aw1941playballor.jpg"><br /><br /><br />TED Z<br /><br />
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Jodi Birkholm</b><p>Somebody scanned one in a previous thread. Wasn't it a thread devoted exclusively to wrappers before it devolved into a Coke vs. Pepsi debate?
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Danny Grimes</b><p>2 error, wrong backs + upside down. both yanks!<br /><br /><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1224971991.JPG"> <br /><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1224972010.JPG">
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Anthony N.</b><p>David- scan them with the lid open. You won't have shifting problems and they will look a lot better.<br /><br />Great stuff everyone, especially the wrappers!
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Ted Zanidakis</b><p>He almost was....as the Yankees offered Hank a contract when he graduated HS in the Bronx in 1929.<br />He turned it down, because as a 1st baseman, he knew he was just going to be a bench warmer with<br /> the Yankees. Instead he attended NYU for a year. Three years later, after playing ball in the Minors,<br />he signed with Detroit.<br /><br />Who knows what his career would have been like as a Yankee ?<br /> <br /><br /><img src="http://i529.photobucket.com/albums/dd339/tz1234zaz/a1941playballgreenberg.jpg"><br /><br /><br />TED Z<br /><br />
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>jdrum</b><p>Someone wrote on these but I like 'em anyway!<br /><img src="http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s172/hrbaker/41pbs.jpg">
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Anthony N.</b><p>The '39-40 Reds were a powerful team, with some solid pitching. Here's a few of them.....<br /><img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/griffins/1941playball/icons/PB03%20copy.jpg"> <img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/griffins/1941playball/icons/PB04%20copy.jpg"> <img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/griffins/1941playball/icons/PB56%20copy.jpg"><br />
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Jeff Schwarz</b><p>Here is the final wrapper in the quartet. This was the hardest for me to track down also. Ted, my set also is in plastic sheets! I love raw cards to hold and look at rather than the slabs.<br /><br /><img src="http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh238/jeffschwarz/41PlayballYellow.jpg">
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Ted Zanidakis</b><p>Thanks for posting your Yellow wrapper.<br /><br />And, I gotta love this statement of yours....."Ted, my set also is in plastic sheets! I love raw cards<br /> to hold and look at rather than the slabs."<br /><br />TED Z<br /><br />
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Chris</b><p>Jeff - thanks for posting the yellow wrapper! It certainly is the hardest to find. Nice to see it.
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>DMcD</b><p>OK . . I fixed my ImageEvent Play Ball album (thanx, Anthony) and it is now presentable. Have a look. <br /><a href="http://imageevent.com/kawika_o_ka_pakipika/bbbofsfirstclass/1941playball" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://imageevent.com/kawika_o_ka_pakipika/bbbofsfirstclass/1941playball</a> pw=aloha<br /><br />Pinky and Happy, the Play Ball TeleTubbies:<br /><img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/kawika_o_ka_pakipika/bbbofsfirstclass/1941playball/websize/12%20May.jpg"> <img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/kawika_o_ka_pakipika/bbbofsfirstclass/1941playball/websize/36%20Milnar.jpg">
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Ted Zanidakis</b><p>Everyone remembers Tommy's famous "Strikeout" play in the 4th game of the 1941 World Series......<br />but, he also had a pretty good season in 1941<br /><br />BA = .277<br />HR = 31 <br />Runs = 106<br />RBI = 85<br /><br />Tommy's best overall season in terms of numbers was 1948<br /><br />BA = .308<br />HR = 25<br />Runs = 138<br />RBI = 100<br /><br /><br /><img src="http://i529.photobucket.com/albums/dd339/tz1234zaz/aa1941playballhenrich.jpg"><br /><br /><br />TED Z
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Ted Zanidakis</b><p>That is a very interesting Gomez you have......I have never seen a Hi# front (Gomez) with a Lo#<br /> back (Moore) ? ?<br /><br />I have had a number of these "wrong backs", including Joe DiMaggio....but, the front/back errors<br /> have all been within the same series.<br /><br />TED Z<br /><br /> <br />
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Ted Zanidakis</b><p>Babe Dahlgren is #49....and is the 1st card in the Hi# series (#49-72).<br /><br />Babe Dahlgren reminds me, it's Trivia Quiz time.....<br /><br />Part I<br />What are Babe Dahlgren and George Selkirk known for ?<br /><br />Part II<br />That one should be easy....so, the next post will follow-up the answers to this one with a tougher quiz.<br /><br /><br /><img src="http://i529.photobucket.com/albums/dd339/tz1234zaz/a1941dahlgrenselkirk.jpg"><br /><br /><br />TED Z<br /><br />
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Anthony N.</b><p>Selkirk replaced Ruth, Dahlgren replaced Gehrig.
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Ted Zanidakis</b><p>OK that was easy.....now, who did Ruth and Gehrig replace ?<br /><br />TED Z<br /><br />
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Anthony N.</b><p>Pipp and Hooper? Or Duffy Lewis?
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Richard Cline - RC</b><p>Anthony N - You have me drooling with those Reds, they were pretty good!<br />Here is my only '41 Play Ball. RC<br />[img]<img src="http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w30/rc4157/Other%20Vintage/GeorgeMacMcQuinn-1941PlayBall.jpg">[/img]
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Alan</b><p>Ted - Thanks for starting this thread. You've given me the interest to try to find a 1941 Play Ball Hank Greenberg card in worse than horrible condition !!!<br /><br />Alan
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Alan</b><p> double post - sorry.
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Anthony N.</b><p>Alan-<br /> Don't forget about Moe!<br /><img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/griffins/1941playball/PB57%20copy.jpg"><br />
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Jodi Birkholm</b><p>Slightly O/T, but, as far as I have heard from his contemporaries, nobody ever referred to Morris Arnovich as "Moe". He was always called either "Morrie" or Morris. Arnovich is one of the handful of players whose grave I have paid a visit to. He's buried in the Hebrew Cemetery, Superior, Wisconsin.
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Anthony N.</b><p>I'd always heard of him referred to as "Morrie" as well. I suspect the people designing the cards took a bit of creative license with the nicknames.
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Jodi Birkholm</b><p>Yes, there's no doubt that many vintage issues have stretched creative liberty to a near breaking point. The Play Ball sets are far from exempt in this regard! There are a couple of earlier issues which almost exclusively used improper/imaginary nicknames (and some who misspelled nearly every player's surname!). I'm sure many of you can name the sets, as I can not. It's been so long!
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Ted Zanidakis</b><p>You are correct about Lou Gehrig replacing Wally Pipp at 1st base.<br /><br />Try again for who Babe Ruth replaced in RF in 1920 ?<br /><br /><br />TED Z<br /><br />
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Jodi Birkholm</b><p>Sammy Vick?<br /><br />Here's a cool piece--a 1920 Yankees album page with both Ruth and Vick!<br /><br /><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1225116151.JPG">
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Ted Zanidakis</b><p>Neat item....and yes, Babe Ruth replaced Sammy Vick in RF in 1920.<br /><br />TED Z<br /><br />
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Ted Zanidakis</b><p>So far, I count 55 different cards on display here from this set. Only 17 more to depict a complete set.....so, let's see some more ?<br /><br />
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>dennis</b><p>from the virtual card collection Designed by Keith Conforti<br /> <a href="http://s97.photobucket.com/albums/l239/dcc1/?action=view¤t=grove.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l239/dcc1/grove.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>stefan</b><p>I have the whole set, but here are most of the keys to the set.<br /><br /><img src="http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii218/stefan41playball/415s.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii218/stefan41playball/416s.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii218/stefan41playball/4178s.jpg"><br /><br /><img src="http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii218/stefan41playball/417hof.jpg">
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>David McDonald</b><p><img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/June08/icon_grovel.gif"> <img src="http://www.network54.com/Realm/June08/icon_grovel.gif"> Wow!!<br />Stefan: Nice to see those PlayBalls as God intended them. Beautiful colors, beautiful cards. (My own set is exceedingly homely in comparison).<br /><br /><img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/kawika_o_ka_pakipika/bbbofsfirstclass/1941playball/websize/54%20Reese.jpg"><br><br>Um. Wow. Vintage cards, scantily-clad Dutch people, uku-zillion penguins, authentic Polynesian maidens, surfing Obama and more at . .<br /><a href="http://ImageEvent.com/kawika_o_ka_pakipika" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://ImageEvent.com/kawika_o_ka_pakipika</a><br />Password=aloha
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Ted Zanidakis</b><p>Some more Hi#s towards completing this virtual set....this gets us to 58 cards. Only 14 more to go....<br /><br />So let's see more of your great looking 1941 Play Ball cards ?<br /><br /><br /><br /><img src="http://i529.photobucket.com/albums/dd339/tz1234zaz/a1941hicardsno64to72.jpg"><br /><br /><br />TED Z<br /><br />
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>DMcD</b><p>Elburt Preston Fletcher and Joseph Franklin Demaree:<br /><br /><img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/kawika_o_ka_pakipika/bbbofsfirstclass/1941playball/websize/63%20Fletcher.jpg"> <img src="http://photos.imageevent.com/kawika_o_ka_pakipika/bbbofsfirstclass/1941playball/websize/59%20Demaree.jpg"><br /><br />That makes seven to go. Who's left?
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Show us your 1941 Play Ball's....let's do a virtual set
Posted By: <b>Ted Zanidakis</b><p>Six more cards to add to this virtual set....five Lo#s and the 24th Hi#....Johnny Cooney.<br /><br /><br /><img src="http://i529.photobucket.com/albums/dd339/tz1234zaz/a1941playballdcwmhc.jpg"><br /><br /><br /><br />Just 6 more cards to reach a full set 72.<br /><br /><br /><br />TED Z<br /><br />
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