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    THE MAGIC OF VINTAGE RUB-OFFS

    Dec 04, 2020 4 minutes
    BY DOUG KOZTOSKI
    PHOTO: HERITAGE AUCTIONS
    PHOTO: DAVE’S VINTAGE BASEBALL CARDS
    PHOTO: EBAY
    PHOTO: EBAY
    PHOTO: EBAY
    PHOTO: DOUG KOZTOSKI
    PHOTO: DAVE’S VINTAGE BASEBALL CARDS
    PHOTO: DAVE’S VINTAGE BASEBALL CARDS
    PHOTO: DAVE’S VINTAGE BASEBALL CARDS

    Squeezing the 1961 Major League Baseball season into one word, it would be: Expansion.

    Somewhat like the upstart American Football League challenging the NFL beginning in 1960, the Continental League of Professional Baseball made efforts to take on MLB in the same era. Stemming the tide against a rival endeavor in 1961, big league baseball expanded the American League by two teams, placing a fresh franchise in Los Angeles, the Angels, and moving

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