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Baseball Card Collecting Before It Was A Business

Card Collecting in the Early 1900’s Card collecting in the early 1900’s was before my time and my dad’s, but not my grandfather’s. He arrived in Ellis Island in 1907 but did not acquire a taste for baseball or card collecting in his lifetime. If he had it would have been great because the T206 cards (1909-1911) common cards are worth at least $50 each in the 520 card set. Unlike later baseball cards the T206 cards came in packs of cigarettes, issued by the American Tobacco Company. And
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