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	<title>Baseball Cards Live</title>
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	<description>The Encyclopedia of Baseball Cards and Collecting!  Includes football cards, basketball cards, hockey cards, racing cards, golf cards, and a history of sports cards.  Updated Daily.</description>
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		<title>Autographed Card</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Clearly, this is a baseball, basketball, football, hockey, or other sports card that has been signed by the player depicted.&#160; Don&#8217;t expect a facsimile signature printed on the card during the printing process to be a true autographed card.&#160; Also, stamped signatures, like the one this author received on a card sent to NFL commissioner [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baseballcardslive.com/2007/04/29/autographed-card/</link>
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		<title>All-Star Card</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An All-Star card is pretty much what you would think it is - a baseball or other sports card depicting a popular player.&#160; However, it&#8217;s not just a card of an outstanding athlete.&#160; The term &#34;all-star&#34; derives from the elite team of players from a league, conference, etc.
Therefore, an All-Star card depicts a baseball, football, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baseballcardslive.com/2007/04/29/all-star-card/</link>
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		<title>1933 Goudey Big League R319</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a very slow&#160;1920s for the hobby, another unique advancement influenced the rebirth of sports cards.&#160; Prior to about 1930, chewing-gum, as the world called the product, was simply gum you would chew; no bubbles could be blown.&#160; But that changed with the discovery of the material that enables us to blow bubbles.&#160; It also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1932 National Chicle Diamond Kings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1932, just prior to their first major set of cards, National Chicle of Springfield, Mass. issued three test cards.&#160; Known as the&#160;Diamond Kings, these baseball cards are considered premiums and look just like the R327 National Chicle effort issued from 1934 to 1936.
Each card is 3-1/2&#34; by 5-3/8&#34; and was sold as premiums at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baseballcardslive.com/2007/04/15/r313-diamond-kings/</link>
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		<title>1911 T205 Gold Borders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The hottest looking set from 1911 definitely has to be the T205 Gold Borders.&#160; Issued by the American Tobacco Company, the complete set consists of 208 colorful, lithographed&#160;cards.
Actually, 11 different cigarette companies - all under the ATC - distributed the Gold Borders.&#160; The set features players from both the major and minor leagues.
The cards&#160;could be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baseballcardslive.com/2007/04/15/1911-t205-gold-borders/</link>
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		<title>Airbrushing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alterations made to a baseball card, basketball card, football card, or other sports&#160;card - usually to correct minor imperfections, errors, or photographic mistakes.&#160; Typically involves changes made to logos on the hats or uniforms of the player depicted.&#160; Technique used by artists.&#160; Card companies like Topps were notorious for making minor changes to their card [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cabinets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oversized cards issued in the &#34;tobacco&#34; days of baseball cards (late 19th and early 20th century), cabinet cards usually measure 5-3/4&#34; by 8&#34;.
A cabinet card&#160;will feature either&#160;a photograph attached to a cardboard backing (making it a true cabinet card), or&#160;a&#160;lithographed image card.
Cabinets were premium cards that typically could be obtained by sending in coupons from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1911 Turkey Reds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The American Tobacco Company distributed the Turkey Reds (designated T3) in 1911.&#160; It is a set of full colored (lithograph) premium cabinet cards similar to the M110 Sporting Life series.&#160; The cards were originally issued in panels.&#160; Loaded with hall of fame players, the set is one of the most desired by early card collectors [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baseballcardslive.com/2007/04/13/1911-turkey-reds/</link>
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		<title>1893 N142 Honest Duke Cabinets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Honest Long Cut Tobacco, of the Duke Tobacco Company issued the Honest cabinet cards in 1893.&#160; Probably the most popular of 19th century baseball cards, the set is designated as the N142.&#160;
These cards are much to be desired for their beauty as their scarcity.&#160; Plus, the mystic of Hall of Fame player Delehanty, who is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baseballcardslive.com/2007/04/11/1893-n142-duke-cabinets/</link>
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		<title>1889 No. 7 Cigars N526</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Released in 1889 were the N526 No.&#160;7 Cigar baseball cards.&#160; The 15-card set features cards measuring 3-1/2&#34; by 4-1/2&#34;.&#160; The fronts show a black and white drawing of a Boston bseball player.
The player&#8217;s name and position played are printed in capital letters at the bottom of the card.&#160; Below that are the words, &#34;Boston Base [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baseballcardslive.com/2007/04/11/1889-no-7-cigars-n526/</link>
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		<title>N174 Gypsy Queen Baseball</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Issued in 1887 by Goodwin and Company is the N174 Gypsy Queen baseball card set.&#160; Issued in two sizes, with the large cards measuring 2&#34; by 3-1/2&#34; and the small cards at 1-1/2&#34; by 2-1/2&#34;, these cards are similar to the Gypsy Queen series in the N172&#160;Old Judge set, making it a closely related set [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baseballcardslive.com/2007/04/10/n174-gypsy-queen-baseball/</link>
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		<title>Understanding Goodwin &#038; Company</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Goodwin and Company&#8217;s massive yet, sometimes confusing N172 set of baseball cards was the first widely distributed set devoted to baseball players only.&#160; Consisting of six series of printings over four years, I&#8217;ll try to explain the set here.  
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		<link>http://baseballcardslive.com/2007/04/08/understanding-goodwin-company/</link>
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		<title>1887 N172 Goodwin and Company</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While Allen &#38; Ginter were busy releasing exciting tobacco cards, competition in the tobacco market was growing at an extremely rapid rate.&#160; Not to be outdone, several additional cigarette manufacturers were also issuing cards.&#160;&#160;One, the Goodwin and Company, issued a sepia-colored baseball set promoting their Old Judge and Gypsy Queen cigarettes.
It&#8217;s known as the enormous [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://baseballcardslive.com/2007/04/08/n172-goodwin-and-company/</link>
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		<title>1887 N370 Long Jack Baseball</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 1887 N370 Long Jack set is one of the toughest sets of cards to collate from all 1800s tobacco sets.&#160; It was distributed by the Long Jack Cigarette Company of Lynchburg, Virginia.&#160; It depicts 13 cards of players for the early St. Louis Browns&#160;of the American Association, and champions of all baseball teams in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1887 N28 Allen &#038; Ginter Introduces Tobacco</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first nationaly disseminated baseball card&#160;set is the&#160;Allen &#38; Ginter&#8217;s N28.&#160; The set of varying sports cards is considered the first of the tobacco issues.&#160; It&#8217;s fitting to know that Allen &#38; Ginter&#8217;s prior standard included a set of cards picturing shocking young women in their tightest swimwear!
But because jealous females didn&#8217;t approve, this norm [...]]]></description>
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