Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Crazy Baseball Cards

So my two friends and I went to the mall today and one of them decided to get some baseball cards just for the hell of it. In one of the packs there was a card for Matthew Thorton. Now you think to yourself who does Matthew Thorton play for. Well he died in 1803. No, he's not Honus Wagner, he's one of the representatives fron New Hampshire to sign the Declaration of Independence. Well why is he in this pack of baseball cards? Well he's part of a series the baseball card company decided to do to I guess enhance kids' knowledge of American history. If you collect all 50-some signees then you get the entire document when you connect the back of the cards. Now to me this seems like a lame attempt to make the company to make themselves seem like they care about education, but what if this actually works? What if kids start trading people from history: "Dude, I'll trade you two Thomas Jefferson's for a George Washington?" "I don't know Washington was a President, dude." "But dude Washington went from the Red Coats to the Yankees in '75, and Jefferson had more illegitimate slave children." This could be a whole new way of learning kids would be trading the Magna Carta for three Articles of Confederation's. Caesar Augustus taking over power for Julius Caesar and winning the battles at Phillippi would be like a rookie card. And everyone would throw out their Jame Buchanan. This maybe a revolution in learning.

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