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Only pitcher ever to throw a no-hitter on Opening Day (Original Post) Ohiogal Mar 2020 OP
One Of The Greats, Ma'am The Magistrate Mar 2020 #1
What happened to your card? Ohiogal Mar 2020 #2
Gone Gone Gone, Ma'am The Magistrate Mar 2020 #5
AKA "Rapid" Robert Feller Auggie Mar 2020 #3
Also answers the question as how an entire team individually can chicoescuela Mar 2020 #4

Ohiogal

(34,546 posts)
2. What happened to your card?
Thu Mar 26, 2020, 09:21 AM
Mar 2020

... Feller was my dad’s hero, my dad pitched in the sandlots in Cleveland.

The Magistrate

(96,043 posts)
5. Gone Gone Gone, Ma'am
Thu Mar 26, 2020, 09:37 AM
Mar 2020

It was from his last active year, passed on to me by an older cousin, who had a shoebox full of the things, when I was starting school. Old ones had no value. We played games of chance with baseball cards at recess, at least in every small boys circle I ever saw, but only current season cards were acceptable for use in these.

There were two forms for these games.

In one, one boy flipped down a card (they could be made to rotate about their long axis as they fell with a little finger action). The other then flipped a card, and if his landed same side up as the first card he got both cards, if his landed opposite side up, the first boy got both cards.

In the second, three boys simultaneously flipped a card down. The odd man out, the one showing the statistics side while the other two showed the face side, or vice versa, got all three cards.

No one would risk something like a Mickey Mantle or a Hank Aaron or a Warren Spahn or a Sandy Koufax at these games, of course. Someone stole a Mickey Mantle I had, surreptitiously, after I'd shown it to him, and it still rankles a little. We hated the Yankees in our household, being for some unaccountable reason Pirates fans (I know of no family connection to Pittsburg), and I would far rather have had a Harvey Haddix, but still --- a Mickey Mantle card was a treasure.

chicoescuela

(1,544 posts)
4. Also answers the question as how an entire team individually can
Thu Mar 26, 2020, 09:29 AM
Mar 2020

Have the same batting average before and after the game.
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