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For today's oddball post I am showing you nine playing cards from my collection.

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1953 Brown and Bigelow #6C Honus Wagner (Brown & Bigelow of St. Paul, Minnesota manufactured complete decks of playing cards featuring six different legendary players to be given away to preferred customers. Each card featured the artwork of William Medcalf and was stamped below the illustration with the preferred customer's name. This Honus Wagner card has the 6 of clubs on the reverse side and as you can see is stamped with the address of Naborhood Link News.)
1991 U.S. Game Systems Baseball Legends #2H Babe Ruth (13 players are featured in this set of playing cards with each player having one card in each of the four suits. The flip side features an illustration of Casey at the bat.)
1992 MVP Game #9 Ted Williams (This card is one of an 18 card set that was produced by MVP Sports. This card is backed by a red AL emblem and cards featuring National League players are backed with a purple NL emblem.)

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1994 Braves U.S. Playing Cards #8S Greg Maddux (This Maddux card is from a deck of 56 cards featuring members of the Atlanta Braves. It is one of numerous sets that the U.S. Playing Card Company issued during the early 1990s.)
2000 U.S. Playing Card All Century Team #5D Mickey Mantle (In 1999, the Major League Baseball All-Century Team was chosen by popular vote of fans from a pre-compiled list of 100 of the greatest players from the past century. The nominees were presented in a memorable ceremony at the 1999 All-Star Game in Fenway Park when they wheeled Ted Williams out in a golf cart. The winners were revealed prior to Game 2 of that year's World Series. Every living player named to the team attended. This card is from a deck of 52 cards all depicting members of that All Century Team.)
2001 U.S. Playing Cards MLB Ballparks #9H  Wrigley Field (This card is from a complete deck of cards that is not recognized by Beckett but depicts all of the MLB stadiums and ballparks. I decided to show you the card featuring one of the oldest parks, Wrigley Field.)

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2005 Mets Uno #G1 Mike Piazza (One of my favorite card games to play is Uno. My brother and I used to play at my neighbor's residence late into the night. We'd have five to eight players playing and it was always an awesome time. We made up some of our own rules, for example, if someone played a Draw 2 or a Draw 4 card on you, you could play one on top of it if you had one forcing the next player to take double the amount of cards, unless they had one too that they could play. Sometimes it would go all the way around and one person would end up with more cards than they could comfortably hold. I have Red Sox Uno cards as well in my collection but chose to show you this Mets card of Mr. Piazza.)
2006 Hero Decks Playing Cards New York Baseball Heroes #6S Derek Jeter (I told you about the Hero Decks cards way back in post #94 when I showed you a Musial card. This Jeter card is from a 2006 set featuring the greatest Yankees players of all-time.)
2013 Panini Golden Age Playing Cards #34 Nolan Ryan (Panini inserted these unnumbered playing cards into their 2013 Golden Age set.)