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Related: About this forumBeschloss tweet; Baseball Hall of Fame opened in Cooperstown, New York, 80 years ago today
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Michael Beschloss ✔ @BeschlossDC
Baseball Hall of Fame opened in Cooperstown, New York, 80 years ago today:
9:45 AM - Jun 12, 2019
The Babe's front and center (sitting)
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Beschloss tweet; Baseball Hall of Fame opened in Cooperstown, New York, 80 years ago today (Original Post)
Dennis Donovan
Jun 2019
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rsdsharp
(10,118 posts)1. I think I can ID them.
Front Row: Eddie Collins, Babe Ruth, Connie Mack, Cy Young
Back Row: Honus Wagner, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Tris Speaker, Napolean Lajoie, George Sisler, Walter Johnson.
Ty Cobb arrived too late for the picture.
Dennis Donovan
(25,566 posts)2. I hope Honus Wagner had a comfortable retirement
...selling his own baseball cards.
Thank you for the ID's!
rsdsharp
(10,118 posts)3. I don't think so. The reason the T206 Wagner card is worth so much
is because Wagner, a non-smoker, ordered the tobacco company that issued the cards to stop pull his from the series.
Dennis Donovan
(25,566 posts)4. If only he knew at the time...