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Happy Birthday Enos Slaughter (4/27/16 - 8/12/02) 🎈 “Country” was inducted into the @baseballhall in 1985 - his plaque mentions his “mad dash home to win 1946 World Series for Cardinals” 👏 Won 4 Fall Classics & was a 10 time All Star👍 1950 Bowman #35 ⬇️ #cardinalsbaseball

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Happy birthday Dave Bancroft, born in Sioux City, Iowa 🎈⚾️🇺🇸 (4/20/1891 - 10/9/1972) “Beauty” helped the #NYBaseballGiants win the World Series in 1921 & 1922 🏆🏆 He entered the @baseballhall a year before he passed 👊 Saturdays are good for pizza & pizza cards #Shakeys

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The 1984 Donruss Don Mattingly #RookieCard was the MVP in the 1980s baseball card hobby boom💥 Mine’s a PSA 8 ⬇️ Donnie Baseball was born 4/20/61 🎂🇺🇸⚾️ His #23 was retired by the #Yankees 👏 Currently, he’s Bench Coach & Offensive Coordinator for the #BlueJays 👍

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During WWII, both paper & gum became rationed items - so baseball cards became nearly extinct 1944 NY Yankees Stamps were one of the few paper collectibles during this period Here’s mine, Oscar Grimes (4/13/15 - 5/19/93) 🎈🇺🇸 Grimes was an utility infielder in 602 MLB games👍

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Happy Birthday Kid Elberfeld (4/13/1875 - 1/13/1944) 🎈⚾️🇺🇸 Shown here on a T205 with the #WashingtonSenators Got the nickname “The Tabasco Kid” due to his temper 😡 In the minors, he threw a lump of mud into an umpires mouth 😳 Also known as a great fielding shortstop 👊

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In 1961, 5¢ Fleer Baseball Greats wax packs included 5 cards plus a team logo decal/sticker. Here’s #55, Ernie Lombardi - who was born on the date in 1908 🎈 The card has a good write up and his career stats. I’ll add he was posthumously elected to the @baseballhall in 1986 👊

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Happy Birthday Rik Aalbert Blijleven - the @baseballhall pitcher we know as Bert Blyleven ⚾️🎂 🇳🇱 🇺🇸😊 60 shutouts 😳 World Series winner with 1979 @Pirates & 1987 @Twins 🏆🏆 Here’s a #PSA10 1973 Kellogg’s 👍

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Happy Birthday Dick Fowler (3/30/21 - 5/22/72) 🎈⚾️ 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Dick’s 16 inning heartbreaker AND his no hitter are both mentioned on this 1949 Bowman 👍 He served 3 years in WWII with the 48th Highlanders of Canada regiment in the Canadian Army, whose members wear kilts #kilts

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Every time Lee May came to bat for the @Orioles - his swagger at the plate made me think he was going to hit the ⚾️ a mile or so! “The Big Bopper” hit 354 dingers in all & had 11 straight seasons (1968 - 1978) with at least 20 😳 Lee was born on 3/23/43 🎈(he passed in 2017)

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Kids got their 1960 Lake to Lake #MilwaukeeBraves cards from milk cartons🥛 Johnny Logan (3/23/26 - 8/9/13) was a World Champ🏆with the ‘57 @Braves A year later, Milwaukee was NL champs again 👊 “Yatcha” was a 4 time All Star and led the NL in two-baggers in ‘55 👏 #blue

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Happy Birthday Charles Hudson (born 3/16/1959) 🎂⚾️🇺🇸😊 In his rookie season, the righty starter came up 5/31 and won 8 games and had a 3.35 ERA for the NL Champion @Phillies 👏 Here’s a Hudson #rookiecard on 1984 Donruss 👍

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Happy Birthday D’Arcy “Jake” Flowers (3/16/1902 - 12/27/1962) 🎈 Flowers was an infielder who played in 583 @MLB games. He was a utility player for the World Champion @Cardinals in 1926 & 1931 🏆 🏆 The 1933 World Wide Gum cards are also called “Canadian Goudeys”

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Lloyd “Little Poison” Waner was born on 3/16/1906🎈 The @baseballhall center fielder was 5’9” & 132 lbs - making him one of the smallest in @MLB 🎟 Lloyd surely has the ⚾️ caught on this 1935 Diamond Stars card 😊 He & his “Big Poison” brother Paul were @Pirates standouts 👍

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Another great @MLB shortstop was born on 3/9 - Happy 82nd Birthday Bert Campaneris 🎂🇺🇸 🇨🇺 😊 “Campy” is in the @Athletics HOF👍 1972/1973/1974 WS 🏆 He’s a 6 time All Star ⭐️ and he led the AL in stolen bases 6 times 👏 Wow - he played all 9 positions on 9/8/65! 76 Topps ⬇️

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What an All Star shortstop Arky Vaughan was! Vaughan hit .364 over 7 All Star games. In ‘41, he homered in both the 7th & 8th innings & had 4 RBI 👏 He was born 3/9/12 🎈 He passed 8/30/52 in a boating/drowning accident😢 Here’s a @baseballhall @Pirates 1940 Play Ball card👍

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Good Day & Happy Birthday Ron Gant (born 3/2/1965) 🎂⚾️🇺🇸 The outfielder had 30/30 years in 1990 & 1991 and was a key member on the 1991 & 1992 NL Champion @Braves 👍 Now he’s on the news team at @GoodDayAtlanta 😊

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Happy Birthday Mel Ott (3/2/1909 - 11/21/1958)🎈 “Master Melvin” played 22 seasons for #NYGiantsBaseball 😳 The slugger’s quote: “Every time I sign a ball, and there must have been thousands, I thank my luck that I wasn’t born Coveleski or Wambsganss or Peckinpaugh.” 😁

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Wouldn’t I love it if I could own & share the most famous baseball card - an authenticated T2O6 Honus Wagner! Followers - maybe pull your💰together & surprise me with one? Until then, on his birthday, here’s budget friendly cardboard of “The Flying Dutchman” from 1976 Topps

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“ED-DIE! ED-DIE! ED-DIE!” Can you look at this card and hear the @Orioles fans’ chant? Steady Eddie’s 2 homers in the decisive Game 5 of the 1983 series drove in 3 in the 5-0 win. 🏆 Happy Birthday @baseballhall Eddie Murray (born 2/24/1956) 🎂⚾️😊🇺🇸

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And another @Orioles birthday to remember today for Alan Wiggins (2/17/1958 - 1/6/1991)🎈 The speedy leadoff hitter’s best season was for the 1984 NL Champion @Padres He had 5 stolen bases on 5/17/84 😳 Sadly, he was the first MLB player known to die from AIDS 😢

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