CYBER : A PRIZE IN EVERY PACK? HEAR THAT, CRACKER JACKS?Byline: Tom Hoffarth Shootin' the curl: Pacific Trading Card company (http://www.pacifictradingcards.com) has figured out a way to put out the first baseball card that incorporates the Internet. Its 750-card series, out since mid-August and called Online ($1.49 a pack), includes both the players' Web-site address and the team's official Web address with each card. One of the nine cards per pack stamped in gold foil has an eight-digit alphanumeric code
In general, in computing, an alphanumeric code is a series of letters and numbers (hence the name) which are written in a form that can be processed by a computer. on the back. Go to either the players' official site (http://bigleaguers.com) or baseball's site (http://www.majorleaguebaseball.com) and click on to the Pacific Online baseball-card sweepstakes. Type in that code and it'll immediately tell you if you've won one of more than 1,700 prizes offered - the grand prize a trip for two to the '98 Players Choice Awards in Orlando, Fla. Other prizes include private chats with players, magazine subscriptions, hats and T-shirts. Side note on the set: It's the first to include every major-league player from the start of issue, making it the largest set of single series ever. The official site of the '98 World Series (http://www.worldseries.com) was launched last week by Major League Baseball "MLB" and "Major Leagues" redirect here. For other uses, see MLB (disambiguation) and Major Leagues (disambiguation). Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in North American professional baseball. and SportsLine USA. In addition to live audio broadcasts of each game, it'll have a pitch-by-pitch graphic representation. Padres third baseman third baseman n. Baseball The infielder stationed near third base. Noun 1. third baseman - (baseball) the person who plays third base third sacker Ken Caminiti The Sports Illustrated Sports Illustrated is the largest weekly American sports magazine owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. It has over 3 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men, 19% of the adult males in the country. for Kids site (http://www.sikids.com) has put up a weekly free fantasy football Fantasy football can refer to:
Yup, just another swell way to get the youth of America prepared for Internet gambling. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1--2) no caption (``Online'' baseball trading cards) |
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