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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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.

2352 - Cologne (Köln), North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Cologne is home to the twelve Romanesque churches. All are Catholic churches and all are found in Altstadt (old town). All were severely damaged during the 262 Allied air raids on Cologne. All twelves have been restored. St. Andreas was consecrated in 974. The crypt of the church as a sarcophagus that dates back to the third century and it holds the remains of St. Albertus Magnus, who died in 1280. St. Apostein was consecrated in the 800s. St. Cecilia was built in the 800s and it the current home of the Schnutgen Museum for Medieval Art. It still holds Catholic Mass on rare occasions. St. Georg's was built near the end of 1000s. It was extensively restored after the Second World War. St. Gerion's was established in 612. St. Kunibert was consecrated in 1247. Cunibert, the 9th Bishop of Cologne, is buried here. St. Maria im Kapital was built between 1040-1065. It was also heavily damaged during the war and restoration was finally completed in 1984. St. Maria Lyskirchem is the ...

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