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09-12-2014, 08:56 AM

wolf441

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9/12/1908 - NEW YORK GAZETTE - ALC has decided to print baseball player photos to be included in cigarette packs starting with the 1909 baseball season. Plans have been made to include several cigarette brands and include all the stars of the day. Rumor is that Connie Mack is so anti-cigarette that he will not be included. Several other players such as Honus Wagner and Eddie Plank may also be tough sells, but the decision has ultimately been made to include them in the initial press run. It is also decided that the baseball pictures will be printed on card stock in rows of 17. Further, it is decided to put together multiple variations in groups of 12 and to destroy all records of these decisions in the hopes that the ambiguity will incite huge fights over the printing process 100 years in the future. Many chuckles were had in the boardroom...

Complete fabrication, sorry Ted, Erick, Chris etc... had to do it!!

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