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December 14. Bobby Adams is born in 1921.
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December 14, 1921. Bobby Adams is born. Bobby Adams’ 1953 Bowman Baseball Card.
December 14. Amundsen’s Exploring Team first to reach the South Pole in 1911.
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December 14, 1911. Woolson’s Spice Company uses a midnight sun scene to promote their comestibles, from circa 1890.
Portraits of Confederate Generals
Lithographic print 1863.
Larry Doby in Color
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Color photograph 1957
December 12. Ralph Garr is born in 1945.
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December 12, 1945. Ralph Garr is born. Ralph Garr in action with the Atlanta Braves in 1972.
Boys Town Promo Stamp
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Poster Stamp • for Boys’ Town • Boys Town, Nebraska • 2.5″ x 1.5″ • c.1930 •
Che Guevara Portrait
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News photograph 1957.
December 11. Hoss Radbourn is born in 1854.
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December 11, 1854. Hoss Radbourn is born. Radbourn in a Goodwin & Company photo from 1888.
King Edward VII and Queen 1935
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News photograph 1936
December 10. Steve Renko is born in 1944.
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December 10, 1944. Steve Renko is born. Steve Renko in a portrait photo with the Montreal Expos.
December 9. Cy Seymour is born in 1872.
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December 9, 1872. Cy Seymour is born. Seymour works out before a game at the Polo Grounds in 1908.
Tony Dorsett after winning the Heisman Trophy
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News photograph 1976.
Beethoven’s Music
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Sheet musci cover illustration 1860
December 8. Hank Thompson is born in 1925.
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December 8, 1925. Hank Thompson is born. Hank Thompson poses for a portrait in his New York Giants uniform in 1957.
December 7. Ozzie Virgil is born in 1933.
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December 7, 1933. Ozzie Virgil is born. Photo of Ozzie Virgil with the New York Giants in 1957.
December 7. In Gallatin, Missouri, Jesse James robs his first bank in 1869.
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December 7, 1869. Jesse James is the cover boy for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Weekly on April 22, 1882.
December 6. Jocko Conlan is born in 1899.
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December, 6, 1899. Jocko Conlan is born. Conlan appears on a 1955 Topps umpire gum card.
Alligator Hunt in the Swamps of Southern Florida
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News photograph 1920.
December 5. President Polk starts California Gold Rush, announcing the discovery in 1849.
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December 5, 1849. Apple crate label from California, harking back to the good old Gold Rush days one hundred years before.
December 4. Woodrow Wilson Conducts Peace Talks in 1918.
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December 4, 1918. President Woodrow Wilson conducting whirlwind meetings in Paris as part of Peace Talks with Europeans.
December 4. Jesse Burkett is born in 1868.
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December 4, 1868. Jesse Burkett is born. Sporting Life newspaper premium of Burkett from 1911.
December 3. Teddy Roosevelt begins battle against trusts in the State of the Union Address in 1918.
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December 3, 1918. Teddy Roosevelt presented as a prize fighter on this cover of Puck magazine.
December 3. Louis Drucke is born in 1888.
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December 3, 1888. Louis Drucke is born. Louis Drucke warms up before a game in the Polo Grounds in 1910.
Deacon White Old Judge Cabinet
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Cabinet photograph 1888.
December 2. John Brown hanged for attack on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia in 1859.
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December 2, 1859. John Brown is lynched in Harpers Ferry, WV. Lithographic scenes of slavery, from an 1858 sheet music cover.
Brush the Magician Poster
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Magic poster 1920
December 1. Cal McLish is born in 1925.
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December 1, 1925. Cal McLish is born in 1925. Portrait of Calvin Coolidge Julius Cesar Tuskahoma McLish in a Phillies uniform.
November 30. At Glasgow England and Scotland play the first international football match in 1872.
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November 30, 1872. Two teams of cats play a football match on a Dutch postcard from the 1930s.
November 30. Firpo Marberry is born in 1898.
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November 30, 1898. Fred ‘Firpo’ Marberry is born. Marberyy warms up for the Washington Senators in 1928.
Minnie Minoso Bowman Card
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Baseball card 1953
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