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Card # 94
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Helmar This Great Game
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Team |
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Bobo Newsom
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Top of wind up
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Washington Senators
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| Top Auction Price |
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$ 76.50
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13
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5
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2
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July 31, 2024
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About the Player
From the "This Great Game" card back: When you can’t be bothered to remember anyone’s name and you call everyone “Bobo,” that’s when you get the nickname for yourself. Add an aw-shucks, fun-loving attitude, and Newsom is one of baseball’s most beloved and popular players. A character on and off the field. Bobo is no slouch with a glove on his hand: he’s nearly 200 wins after earning 11 victories for the Senators at the age of 38 in 1946. This is the third stint for much-traveled Bobo in D.C., who started his career in 1929.
About the Series
This series marks a step in a new direction for Helmar. For the first time we take a serious look at baseball in the 1950's and then, perhaps, the 1960's. The game found itself changing dramatically in this post WWII era, influenced by both the larger society and technological innovation. The color barrier may have been officially broken in 1947 but the acceptance of black players by the big league clubs came slowly, if surely. Reliable and inexpensive air transportation paved the way for geographic expansion. The game, which had been centered in the East and Midwest, found new opportunities along the West Coast.
The very center of the baseball world through the decade was New York City. New York teams competed in every World Series through the decade except for 1959. In many of those years both teams competing were from the city. Interestingly, New York also became the center of the art world at the same time. Migration after WWII brought many creatives to the Big Apple and movements such as abstract, modernism, surrealism and avant-garde.
Studying the era has inspired Helmar to use bold, often surreal colors in this series. We hope that you will join us as we explore this era of change.
Card size: 3" x 4"
Individually Numbered 1-20
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