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AUGUST 26, 2021 | The Jewish Home OCTOBER 29, 2015 | The Jewish Home
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Baseball Card Trivia 1. Last week, a baseball card sold for $6,606,000, making it the most expensive baseball card ever. Who is the player depicted in the card? a. Honus Wagner b. Mickey Mantle c. Babe Ruth d. Joe Jackson 2. In 2003, baseball card company Donruss purchased a jersey that Babe Ruth wore in 1925. What did they do with it? a. Raffled it off to purchasers of their cards b. Had players from various teams pose in the jersey c. Cut it into 2,100 pieces and put the pieces in random packs of cards
d. Gave it to a wellknown baseball card collector who was willing to burn his 10,000 card Topps collection 3. Paul Jones, age 35, is the Guinness World Record holder for having the largest private baseball card collection in the world. Approximately how many cards does he currently have? a. 40,000 b. 200,000 c. 2.8 million d. 4 million 4. In the late 1800s, what was the primary method in which baseball cards were distributed? a. They were printed on the back of game tickets b. They were distributed in
Answers 1. A 2. C 3. C 4. C 5. B 6. B
breakfast cereal boxes c. They were distributed in cigarette boxes d. They were mailed to home for free, with the hope of getting people to become baseball fans 5. Baseball cards are professionally graded for condition using what scale? a. A to F b. 1 to 10 c. 1 to 100 d. Mint-Good-Fair-Poor 6. What is the most that a Joe DiMaggio card was ever sold for? a. $32,000 b. $288,000 c. $1.2 million d. $2.4 million
Scorecard 5-6 correct: You are a GEM-MT10! 3-4 correct: Not bad, you are like a 1980s Don Mattingly card – sounds good,
but doesn’t really have so much value. 0-2 correct: You are as good as a hard piece of bazooka gum, stuck in a deck of cards since 1912.
