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Charlie Brown Plays Baseball card game

Published November 16, 2022 Updated November 16, 2022

Peanuts comic strip characters on cards for regular play or a special game based on baseball.

1995 USAComic BooksCharles M. SchultzU.S. Games SystemsPeanutsCard Games
Charlie Brown Plays Baseball card game, 1995

Charlie Brown and friends are depicted in this pack which can be used to play normal card games or alternatively a special card game based on the rules of baseball. The black-suited cards represent offensive at bat baseball actions, while the red-suited cards are used for defensive actions in the field. The rules for the special baseball card game are explained in the accompanying fold-out leaflet

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Charlie Brown Plays Baseball card game, 1995 Charlie Brown Plays Baseball card game, 1995 Charlie Brown Plays Baseball card game, 1995

Above: Charlie Brown Plays Baseball card game made by Carta Mundi, Turnhout, Belgium, for U.S. Games Systems, Inc. Stamford, CT, USA, 1995. 52 cards + 3 Jokers + rules for baseball card game in a drop-lid box. Size: 57 x 89 mm. PEANUTS © United Feature Syndicate, Inc. ©1995 by U.S. Games Systems, Inc.

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Roddy started collecting stamps on his 8th birthday. In 1977 he joined the newly formed playing-card department at Stanley Gibbons in London before setting up his own business in Edinburgh four years later. His collecting interests include playing cards, postcards, stamps (especially playing cards on stamps) and sugar wrappers. He is a Past President of the Scottish Philatelic Society, a former Chairman of the IPCS, a Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards and Curator of the WCMPC’s collection of playing cards. He lives near Toulouse in France.

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