4001 - Tacoma, Washington, United States

The sender is a fellow educator, but retired (lucky)! This card is a reproduction of the large letter state name postcards from the 1930s-1940s. I love these cards and many Postcrossers have them on their lists of favourites and preferred cards.

Tacoma is home to the Tacoma Rainers of the Pacific Coast League. The Pacific Coast League is a Triple-A baseball league, which means they are one level below Major League Baseball. Triple-A teams have a Major League Baseball team they are affiliated with and prospects of the Major League team play there. The Rainers are the oldest team in the league having been founded in 1960 as the Tacoma Giants, the affiliate of the San Fransisco Giants. They are the current affiliate of the Seattle Mariners since 1995.

Here are the names and affiliates of the Tacoma Baseball Team:

1960-1965 - Tacoma Giants - San Fransisco Giants

1966-1971 - Tacoma Cubs - Chicago Cubs

1972-1977 - Tacoma Twins - Minnesota Twins

1978 - Tacoma Yankees - New York Yankees

1979-1980 - Tacoma Indians - Cleveland Indians

1981-1994 - Tacoma Athletics - Oaklands Athletics

1995 - present - Tacoma Rainers - Seattle Mariners

There was also a Tacoma team in the PCL in 1904-1905 known as the Tacoma Tigers, and they won the PCL pennant by finishing in first place in both halves of the season. In 1905 they finished first in the first half of the season and moved to Sacramento for the second half of the season.

The current franchise has won six league titles - 1961, 1969, 1978, 2001, 2010, and 2021.

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3584 - Blaine, Minnesota, United States of America

The sender was in Las Vegas recently and bought this card from The Mob Museum. The Mob Museum, officially known as the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, is located in downtown Las Vegas. It open in 2012. It features artifacts, stories, and the history of organized crime in the United States, but also the actions and initiatives by law enforcement to prevent such crimes. The museum is found at the former Las Vegas Post Office and Courthouse, which was built in 1933. The quote on this card was from John Gotti. John Gotti (1940-2002) was the mafioso and boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City. After ordering the killing of Gambino boss Paul Catellano in 1985, he took over the family and led what was the United States' most powerful crime syndicate. He was known as The Teflon Don after three high profile trials in the 1980s resulted in acquittals. Later it was revealed that the trials had been tainted by jury tampering, juror misconduct, and...

3566 - Bakhmach, Chernihiv, Ukraine

Bakhmach is locarted in northern Ukraine. I'm taking this next paragraph straight out of Wikipedia: During the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 26, 2022, at least 65 units of Russian military equipment moved through Bakhmach, with about a hundred more on the outskirts. Local residents tried to stop the convoy on their own by blocking tank tracks with makeshift objects and convincing Russian soldiers not to move towards Kyiv . One man attempted to climb onto a tank and block the road with his body (he was not hurt). However, the military equipment continued to move, and Russian forces fired several shots into the air. Слава Україні!

3564 - Kassel, Hesse, Germany

A wonderful message on this card that translates to to those wh o can wait, everything comes with time.

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