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Baseball card set honors 100th anniversary of Negro Leagues

Patrick Varine
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Artwork by Graig Kreindler
Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson are featured in this painting by Graig Kreindler, among those in a Negro League baseball card set created to honor the league’s 100th anniversary in 2020.
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Submitted/National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum/Dreams Fulfilled
Each set comes with a “mystery bobblehead,” which could be of Josh Gibson or Cool Papa Bell, both of whom played for Pittsburgh-area Negro League teams during their careers.
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Submitted/National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum/Dreams Fulfilled
The boxed set of baseball cards commemorating the Negro Leagues’ 100th anniversary also features a picture of the Paseo YMCA in Kansas City, Mo., where the league was first established in 1920.

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