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Archive: 2019 (11 Posts)

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Baseball and the Law Goes Hollywood

Posted by: Betty Lupinacci

With thanks to Margaret Wood for the idea and to her and Jim Martin for some of the entries below, this post is a light-hearted look at baseball and the law in film. Let’s start with movies about cheating and gambling. First we have the obvious Eight Men Out, a 1988 film about the Black Sox …

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Baseball Card Litigation: Fleer v. Topps

Posted by: Betty Lupinacci

If you were not aware, the Library of Congress is the place for baseball cards.  Comprised of both donated collections and items deposited with the U.S. Copyright office, the Library’s collection is unparalleled (absent the elusive Honus Wagner card). You can view items from our collection in the Library’s Baseball Americana exhibition where cards are …