April 25, 2024
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In today’s world, sports heroes are several and varied. Sixty-plus years ago, when Stan Musial played baseball, he too, was a hero to many fans for many reasons. He was admired not only for his ability with a bat and ball but for his character in playing America’s favorite pastime sport – Major League Baseball.
The 1950s-1960s civil rights movement drew widespread opposition that frequently called Martin Luther King, Jr. and other activists as “communists,” as this John Birch Society card shows. It’s numbered CR2. There just had to be a CR1. It took years to find, and here’s its story.