Basically these are collector items in the vein of [Pokemon Cards] and [Magic Cards], but predates all card based collectables. Like magic and pokemon cards, baseball cards contain statistics, but unlike magic and pokemon cards, the players with which these statistics refer to are real and not imaginary like players dipicted in [magic] and [pokemon], which are made up to serve gaming purposes. Thus, baseball cards are not gaming cards and serve only to amuse and pleasure those who love [baseball] and their players (See [keedon], [baseball]).
> That damn keedon got so obsessed with getting that Ken Griffey Jr. baseball card that he flunked his midterms and got me to do his homework. Damn him and his obsession with baseball cards!!! (See [keedon]).

WORDS AND THEIR STORIES - Baseball By Shelley Gollust Broadcast: Sunday, June 05, 2005 Now the VOA Special English program: Words and Their Stories. Baseball is America's national sport, so it is not

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By Teresa Sullivan Washington 30 May 2008 The U.S. national baseball team will be seeking its second gold medal - and redemption - at the Beijing Olympics in August. The United States won the gold medal in 2000, but failed to qualify for the 2004 Ath

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Baseball's Nationals Move Into New Stadium By Jim Stevenson Washington 31 March 2008 ----------------------------------------- Nationals Baseball Team Inaugurates New Stadium With Win By Jim Stevenson Washington 31 March 2008 Major League Baseball's

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Lesson 18 Text A Christmas Cards It mas two weeks before Christmas. and Mrs Smith was very busy. She bought a lot of Christmas cards to send to her friends and to her husband's friends, and put them o

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Many years ago I read that credit cards were the thing of the future. Credit card companies were telling us that plastic would replace cash. Well, this hasnt happened. People are still using notes and coins. The Internet has increased the use of cred

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Im not sure what to think about identity cards. There are good and bad things about them. I think on the whole they are a good thing. It depends on what the government uses the information for. It also depends on how secure the database is that keeps

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THIS IS AMERICA - Baseball and American Culture By Jill Moss Broadcast: Monday, August 09, 2004 (THEME) VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA, in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: And I

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My teen-age daughter was preparing to return home after having visited her grandparents for a few weeks one summer. Her grandfather gave her 12 post cards .

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By David Gollust State Department 13 August 2007 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has named retired baseball great Cal Ripken Jr. to be a U.S. public diplomacy special envoy. Ripken, inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame last month, will begin t

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By David Byrd Washington 08 August 2007 San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds has passed Hank Aaron for the Major League Baseball career home run record. But the achievement is under a cloud because of allegations of steroid use. As VOA's David By

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我们上次讲的两个习惯用语都同,card,纸牌有关。今天我们再学习两个同card这个词有关的习惯用语。我们先学:in the cards。如果您听见有人说某一件事情的时候使用了这个习惯用语,您就知道

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Adrienne: So, Mary, whats in the basket there? Mary: Oh, those are all the Christmas cards I received this year. Adrienne: Oh, thats a lot. Mary: Yeah, its quite a few. I had kind of an extensive list for people I would send cards to but in October m

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My teen-age daughter was preparing to return home after having visited her grandparents for a few weeks one summer. Her grandfather gave her 12 post cards . Here, write us a few lines every month, he said. Months passed and the cards remained unused-

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-woman
a machine
adjustable rate convertible note
after-party
Albarine
anhydrovinblastines
antireductionist
Argiopidae
aseptic drum filling
bailiff in husbandry, bailiff of forests
bettelheim
binocular viewing head
biton
bitumen cut-backs
blood letting
buts
cachaemia
calls in
ccd terminal storage
character value
chemistry of Chinese materia medica
Chonsurid
chrysoquinone
circular-knit
committee of arrangements of exchange
comparative estimating method
compensation of damage
conserved vector current (cvc)
controlled parameter
COS (crack opening stretch)
cowpen daisies
cracking reaction
culmy
dances of automatons
Davout, Louis Mcolas
debug monitor
Delcom vernier
disease of hair follicle
double stage supercharger
dystropepts
ehrlichia canis
endocardiopathy
exits and links between programs
far infrared band
fetch-up
finably
float line roller
forest climax
gennakers
give sb the shivers
ground operation equipment (goe)
half maximum
haplo-insufficiency
I hadn't the foggiest
ice alert
immunotypes
is planning
landing approach speed
lasard
Lepidostrobas
Lingguibafa
lower knife slide
map principal point
mass source
mass-condensation
military surveillance
nonadecanoic
noncleaved
nonnovel
pallors
pandars
parapharyngeal
perforation plate
peroxy bond
Phyllotreta downesi insularis
porcellanites
position of rest
raboch
radioautographic analysis
ranunculus albertii regel et schmalh
regrades
revenue collecting office
rope roll
Rosalind Bank
Salmonella icteroides
schr?dinger dynamical variables
self addressed
sharp play
shaving strop hook
sit down on
soetebier
suck-it-and-see
symmetrizes
terribley
tilting angle indicator
tin-ferrite core
trafficway
trappose
tunica vaginalis
urethral groove
wedge factor
yard inspector