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

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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