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For an oddball post today I am displaying nine postcards from my collection. I don't normally collect oversize cards but I don't throw them out if I happen to acquire some. These are all postcard size but I am sizing them down somewhat to better fit them on the page.

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1982 Baseball Card News Advertising Rate Card #6 Hank Aaron (Editor-publisher Allen Kaye introduced a new newspaper titled the Baseball Card News in 1982 exclusively for baseball card collectors. It was in print for several years before being purchased by Krause Publications and being turned into the Sports Collector's Digest. This is one of the cards that Mr. Kaye distributed to prospective advertisers and includes advertising rates on the reverse. Although it is postcard size, this would actually be considered and advertising rate card. More importantly to me, it's a Hank Aaron card.)
1989 Perez-Steele Celebration Postcards #9 Happy Chandler (Postcards from this 44-card set were issued to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. They feature the artwork of Dick Perez known primarily throughout the baseball card collecting community as the artist behind the original Donruss Diamond Kings cards. This is one of only two Beckett recognized cards I own of the former Commissioner of Baseball.)
1989 USPS Legends Stamp Cards #4 Babe Ruth/Issued July 6, 1983 (The USPS issued this four-card set in 1989 showcasing four previously issued baseball stamps of Ruth, Gehrig, Clemente and Jackie Robinson. All of the original stamps featured artwork reprinted in this set of postcards.)

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1991 Legends Sports Memorabilia Postcards #12 Ted Williams (I acquired a stack of Legends Sports Memorabilia magazines just for the cards that were printed and contained within each issue. I have showed a couple of these cards already in this thread. Each magazine also came with some postcards and of course I saved them too. The artwork is very well done. This one of the Splendid Splinter is from a 1991 issue.)
1992 Legends Sports Memorabilia Postcards #9 Johnny Bench (This is from a 1992 issue of Legends Sports Memorabilia magazine.)
2000 Hall of Fame Postcards #NNO Ty Cobb (I picked up a bunch of these at the Hall of Fame when I visited on HOF weekend in 2002.)

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2000 Stan "The Man" Inc. Complimentary Card #NNO Stan Musial (I mailed a couple of cards to Stan Musial back in the early 2000s and the cards were returned unsigned but included was this postcard size card which I would assume is signed in autopen. Not what I wanted but still a pretty cool piece.)
2000 USPS Legends of Baseball Postcards #1 Roberto Clemente (This 20-card postcard set, featuring beautiful artwork, was also issued by the USPS along with the 20 postage stamps celebrating some of the greatest players to play the game.
2001 Hall of Fame Postcards 19th Century Hall of Famers #7 Mike King Kelly (I bought a complete set of these postcards during my same trip to the Hall of Fame in 2002. The Hall didn't have any standard-size cards for sale and I wanted to pick up some cards as a keepsake from my trip. It was my third trip to the Hall but my first without a wife saying, "Can we go already?" I like this set that features ten very early pioneers of the game.)