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More than two million people regularly buy and collect baseball cards. This 1992 engagement book contains reproductions of classic and offbeat cards, together with player profiles and baseball trivia. Featured are the 60th anniversary of Babe Ruth's called shot, Rogers Rajah Hornsby, Sportsman's Park, Rusty Staub, The Pitch that Killed, Sparky Anderson, King Kong Keller, Carlton Pudge Fisk, Nuf Ced McGreevy, Sal The Barber Maglie, the Polo Grounds and the diamond anniversary of baseball's only double no-hitter, Sudden Sam McDowell. There is also a baseball fact, statistic or quote for every day of the year.