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The Strange Story of MLB’s ‘Bannermark’ Logo

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By Paul Lukas
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(Photo from Wikipedia) This season’s MLB All-Star Game will take place next Tuesday in Philadelphia. By the night’s end, one player will have been selected as the game’s MVP and will therefore win the Ted Williams MVP Award, which is a glass bat. But when I was growing up in the 1970s, the All-Star MVP won something called the Commissioner’s Award (not to be confused with the Commissioner’s Trophy, which is presented to the World Series championship team).
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Your Coin Toss Stories

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By Paul Lukas
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(Photo by Flickr user Rob Webb.) Note: This post is being published simultaneously on Uni Watch and also over at Inconspicuous Consumption. — Paul I recently published an Inconspicuous Consumption article about JFK half-dollars. That prompted an interesting email from reader Dave Truman, as follows: I spent about 15 years as a lacrosse referee in St. Louis, and they always taught the new guys to use half-dollars for the coin toss.
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Calling All Refs: What Do You Use for Coin Tosses?

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By Paul Lukas
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(Photo by Paul) I ran a really fun piece over on Inconspicuous Consumption today, about the pleasures of JFK half-dollars. That prompted an email from IC reader Dave Truman, as follows: I spent about 15 years as a lacrosse referee in St. Louis, and they always taught the new guys to use half-dollars for the coin toss.
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