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Garbage Pail Kids - The Gross, Weird, and Wonderful Cards That Took Over the 80s

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Garbage Pail Kids - The Gross, Weird, and Wonderful Cards That Took Over the 80s In the mid-1980s, while kids were trading baseball cards and begging for Cabbage Patch Kids dolls, Topps decided to stir the pot. The result? Garbage Pail Kids  - a set of hilariously gross, satirical trading cards that became both a playground sensation and a cultural controversy. Adam Bomb – The most iconic Garbage Pail Kid of them all Where it all began First released in 1985 by Topps, Garbage Pail Kids were designed as a parody of the wildly popular Cabbage Patch Kids dolls. Each card featured a grotesque yet funny character with pun-filled names like Adam Bomb , Leaky Lindsay , or Up Chuck . Kids loved them. Parents… not so much. Artwork came from comic legends like Art Spiegelman (later Pulitzer Prize winner for Maus ) and John Pound, who turned gross-out humor into collectible gold. Every sticker card had two versions: an “A” and “B” name, but with the same artwork — ...
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The Black Sox Scandal: Baseball's Biggest Conspiracy

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The 1919 World Series between the Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds is remembered for all the wrong reasons. Known as the Black Sox Scandal , it remains one of the most infamous conspiracies in sports history. This post explores what really happened, who was involved, and how the fallout reshaped professional baseball forever. The Fix Was In In 1919, a group of gamblers led by Arnold Rothstein conspired with eight Chicago White Sox players to intentionally lose the World Series in exchange for money. The players — including "Shoeless" Joe Jackson , Eddie Cicotte, and Lefty Williams — were promised a total of $100,000. As the games played out, suspicious errors and poor performances piled up. The Reds won the series 5 games to 3, and it didn’t take long for fans and the press to suspect something wasn’t right. The Investigation and Fallout By 1920, rumors of a fixed series had grown too loud to igno...
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