Lesson 21

Collect Them All

OBJECTIVE:

To provide students with the opportunity to create their own baseball trading cards.

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS:

• Handout # 1 "Sample Cards" made into an overhead transperancy.
• Handout # 2. "Blank Trading Card Template"

TERMS:

• Denton "Cy" Young
• Louis Soxalexis
• Jesse "Crab"Burkett
• trading cards
  

LESSON FOCUS:

1. How were trading cards distributed in 1896?
   

TEACHING PROCEDURE:

1. Have the students examine the copies of early trading cards. Compare the earlier cards with baseball cards today.
   
   Ask the students if they can think of how these cards would have been distributed. (They were usually given away as part of a cigarette or chewing tobacco package, and adults as well as children collected them. Sometimes entertainment, as well as sports figures were pictured on the cards.)
   
   Have the students design a trading card of their own. Students should put the vital statistics for the person for whom they have designed the trading card on the reverse side. They might use themselves or a current sports figure as a model for the card.