HALL EXPANDS POPULAR EXHIBIT Black Players’, Rookie Cards Joining ‘Shoebox Treasures’ COOPERSTOWN – The Hall of Fame’s “Shoebox Treasures,” an exhibit of more then, 2,000 baseball cards, has been updated to include 29 new cards, including 14 of the game’s earliest Black players following Jackie Robinson’s big league debut in 1947. The new collection also features some of the game’s biggest current stars’ rookie cards, including a rare 2009 Bowman Chrome Red Refractor Mike Trout. Issued two years before his…
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NEW AT THE HALL OF FAME ‘Shoebox Treasures’ Tells You Everything About Baseball Cards By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to SUMMER DREAMS COOPERSTOWN – In looking through the Baseball Hall of Fame’s 200,000 baseball cards, curator John Odell happened upon his childhood favorite. “I had a 1968 card for Cookie Rojas, who played second base for the Phillies,” he said. “He wore glasses and his name was ‘Cookie’ – I thought that was the funniest thing in the world. All…
CLASSIC GAME WEEKEND 2019 You Like Baseball Cards? ‘Shoebox’ Show Has ’em All Cooperstown’s Pete Henrici, the retired CCS teacher and proprietor since the 1970s of the Baseball Nostalgia shop in the Doubleday parking, points out one of his business cards from the early days, which is part of Shoebox Treasures, a new exhibit – two years in the making – that opened this morning at the Hall of Fame. Inset is this morning’s ribbon cutting, with Hall President Jeff…