4185 - Macon, Georgia, United States

The information on the back of the card reads:
It (Luther Williams Field) is the second oldest minor league (baseball) stadium in the country (United States). This gem has been around since 1932, and hosted players including Pete Rose, Tony Perez, and Chipper Jones, Famous movies such as 42 and Trouble With the Curve were filmed here.

Luther Williams Field was built in 1929 on an earlier baseball field site. Today it is home to the Macon Bacon, a wood-bat collegiate summer baseball team in the Coastal Plain League. The original grandstand is still in place, though a tin roof has replaced the former wooden one.

The Macon Peaches of the South Atlantic Association, the South Atlantic League, and the Southern League, played here on and off from 1929 to the 1980s. Another team of the same name played in the Southeastern League in 2003. There have also been the Macon Dodgers of the South Atlantic League from 1956-1960; the Macon Redbirds in 1983; the Macon Pirates from 1984-87; and the Macon Braves from 1991-2002. The Macon Music of the South Coast League played here in 2007, the Macon Pinetoppers of the PSL, and the Macon State Blue Storm club team from 2011-2012.

Luther Williams was Macon's mayor when the stadium opened. He worked hard to bring baseball to Macon and helped get the stadium built.

Some future Major League Baseball players stopped in Macon to play for their club's farm teams. They included:

Pete Rose, 1962, Macon Peaches
Tony Perez, 1963, Macon Peaches
Vince Coleman, 1983, Macon Redbirds
Chipper Jones, 1991, Macon Braves
Jermaine Dye, 1994, Macon Braves
Andruw Jones, 1995, Macon Braves

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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