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[Bill Sweeney, Boston Doves, baseball card portrait]

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Baseball card title devised by Library staff.

Issued by: American Tobacco Company.

Forms part of: Baseball cards from the Benjamin K. Edwards Collection.

Over 100 years, images of athletes went from tobacco companies' marketing materials to overhyped investments favored by nostalgic colelctors.

Vintage baseball cards have been a prime focus of countless collectors and historians of one of America's favorite pastimes. Find vintage baseball cards from Library of Congress Collection.

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01/01/1909
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