Baseball is big on traditions. Each year the MLB celebrates a number of major events and awards. Topping the list of annual extravaganzas are the World Series, the All-Star Game and the Hall of Fame induction ceremony, and all three of these main stage events are represented here, with this 1940s-1990s baseball press pin lot of (32).
Featured are:
1946 World Series St. Louis Cardinals version (VG-EX);
(4) All-Star Game average (NM to NM-MT): 1976 Philadelphia; 1979 Seattle; 1988 Cincinnati; 1998 Colorado;
(2) Hall of Fame current induction class average (NM to NM-MT): 1989
Barlick/Bench/Schoendienst/Yastrzemski; 1993 Jackson;
1994-1998 Ted Williams Hitters Hall of Fame 5th Anniversary Banks/Mathews/Feller/Spahn/Leonard/Jackson;
1994 Hall of Fame "Guest" badge Carlton/Durocher/Rizzuto (NM);
(23) 1990s Hall of Fame retroactive induction class average (NM to MT):
Class of 1936 Ruth/Cobb/Johnson/Wagner/Mathewson;
Class of 1939 Gehrig/Keeler/Radbourne/Sisler/Spalding;
Class of 1939 Anson/Collins/Comiskey/Ewing/Cummings;
Class of 1942 Hornsby;
Class of 1944 Landis;
Class of 1945 Bresnahan/Brouthers/Clarke/Collins/Duffy/Kelly/O'Rourke/Robinson/Delahanty/Jennings;
Class of 1946 Burkett/Chance/Chesbro/Evans/Griffith/McCarthy/McGinnty/Plank/Tinker/Waddell/Walsh;
Class of 1948 Plank/Traynor;
Class of 1949 Cochrane/Grove/Frisch/Hubbell;
Class of 1949 Brown/Nichols/Gehringer;
Class of 1951 Foxx/Ott;
(2) Class of 1962 Roush/Feller/Robinson/McKechnie;
Class of 1966 Stengel/Williams;
Class of 1969 Campanella/Hoyt/Musial/Coveleski;
Class of 1973 Clemente/Evans/Irvin/Kelly/Spahn/Welch;
Class of 1974 Bell/Bottomley/Thompson/Mantle/Ford/Conlan;
Class of 1975 Averill//Harris/Herman/Johnson/Kiner;
Class of 1976 Charleston/Conner/Hubbard/Lemon/Lindstrom/Roberts;
Class of 1977 Bank/Dihigo/Rusie/Sewell/Lloyd/Lopez;
Class of 1979 Giles/Mays/Wilson;
Class of 1980 Kaline/Klein/Snider/Yawkey;
Class of 1981 Gibson/Foster/Mize
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