local retailers distributed discount coupons that blended the design of paper money with images of popular baseball teams to help advertise their establishments.
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local retailers distributed discount coupons that blended the design of paper money with images of popular baseball teams to help advertise their establishments.

ByThis Day in Baseball

  October 1, 1889 Another example of the highly desirable baseball “currency” of the late 1800s, when various local retailers distributed discount coupons that blended the design of paper money with images of popular baseball teams to help advertise their establishments. This piece, advertising the Wm. Stuart Furniture, Carpet and Stove store of Baltimore, Md…