It began as the GODFATHER OF MATH, evolved into the GOODFATHER OF MATH. Now this. Go figure...

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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES ... Music is the mathematics of the gods=PYTHAGORAS ... Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
I cannot live without the oxygen of laughter = DAWN POWELL ... !!! ... But laughter cannot survive without the hydrogen of gravitas = PAUL OLIVERIO
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Friday, July 10, 2015

Brooklyn Baseball Team With No Bats Or Balls But With Gavel

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This is the 1860






The Atlantics were a founding member 
of the National Association of Base Ball Players–
the sport's first organized league that held 
the championship from 1859 through 1861.

The card is a photograph mounted on a 2.5" x 4" cardboard
...probably taken in a Brooklyn photo studio. 

An undated newspaper clipping pasted to the back 
lists the players' names. 

The card will be auctioned on July 30th.

This is a seminal artifact, not just of baseball, 
but of American history, 

said Chris Ivy, Director of Sports Auctions at Heritage. 

It ranks with the most significant mementos 
of the sport's infancy ever to surface and is, 
quite possibly, the only team card on Earth 
printed before the first drop of blood 
was spilled in the American Civil War.
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