4081 - Pulheim, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Pulheim is home to Pulheimer SC - a sports club founded in 1966. There are sections for the following sports:

Football
Handball
Baseball,
Hockey
Basketball
Inline Hockey
Volleyball
Badminton
Tennis
Table Tennis
Budo
Fencing
Track & Field
Cycling
Swimming
Dancing
Chess

The Pulheim Gophers play in the baseball and softball section of the club and were founded in 1989.
Did you know there was a Baseball-Bundesliga (now called Deutsche Baseball Liga) in Germany? It was founded in 1984 and there are 11 teams in the top tier. Just like other sports in Europe, teams can be promoted or regulated to higher or lower leagues. Deutsche Baseball Liga is the highest tier of German baseball.

The Gophers played in the Deutsche Baseball Liga in 2009 and 2010 and finished 7th and 5th respectively. Today they play in the Baseball-Bundesliga Nord

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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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