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Description: The Philadelphia Stars were a Negro league baseball team from Philadelphia. The Stars were founded in 1933 when Ed Bolden returned to professional black baseball after being idle since early 1930. The Stars were an independent ball club in 1933, a member of the Negro National League from 1934 until the League's collapse following the 1948 season, and affiliated with the Negro American League from 1949 to 1952.
Description: Baseball Nostalgia, Inc. was founded in November, 1974 by Bill Himmelman, Mike Aronstein and Pete Henrici in Cooperstown NY. The previous year they had opened Sports Nostalgia along with sports cartoonist Bob Laughlin and boxing referee and publicist Lew Eskin in Upper Saddle River, NJ. In 1974 they opted to lease the original concession area of the Doubleday Batting Range. The doorway was approximately 100 feet from the home plate on historic Doubleday Field.
