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Columns::April 22, 2002

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Russell Library showcases late senator’s baseball card collection

By Jean Cleveland
jclevela@uga.edu

The Richard B. Russell Library is presenting a major exhibition to highlight one of its most popular collections, Sen. Russell’s baseball card collection, one of the largest private collections of turn-of-the-century tobacco cards held by a public institution in

Legends of the Deadball Era contains more than vintage 1,000 baseball cards. (Photo by Peter Frey)

the United States.
Legends of the Deadball Era: Vintage Baseball Cards from the Richard B. Russell Collection will focus on the character of baseball during this time (1900-1919), known as the deadball era. Lectures and film series are being planned for summer and fall in conjunction with the display.
“The tobacco cards in the Russell collection offer a rare, private glimpse into the youthful passions of a very public figure,” says Albert Kilchesty, curator of the exhibit.
The Russell collection contains more than 1,000 baseball cards produced by the American Tobacco Company. The majority of cards come from the T-206 “White Border” series, the largest tobacco-card set of the early 20th century and the one containing some of the most prized cards in the collecting world. Some of the rarest T-206 cards are included in the Russell collection, including an extremely scarce misprint of a Joe Doyle card, one of fewer than six known to exist, and an equally uncommon Ty Cobb portrait featuring the slogan, “Ty Cobb, King of the Smoking Tobacco World,” on the reverse.
Opening to the public April 22, the exhibit will be available through Nov. 22. The Russell Library will be open on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., in addition to regular hours, for the exhibit, which, in addition to the cards, will consider the rules of fair play that most players honored and some ignored, the way in which equipment and its performance shaped strategy, and the skills that made a player a star.

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