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Not so fastSpeed UnitsSince average speed is always calculated as a distance (length) divided by a time, the units of average speed are always a distance unit divided by a time unit. Common units of speed are meters/second (abbreviated m/s), centimeters/second (cm/s), kilometers/hour (km/hr), miles/hour (mi/hr - try to avoid the common abbreviation mph), and many others.
 
There's a worthy new set of baseball cards on the market called "Jewish Major Leaguers." The 142-card set, produced by the American Jewish Historical Society in cooperation with Jewish Major Leaguers Inc. and printed by Fleer, purports to picture "every identifiable" Jewish player in the big leagues from the 1870s to the All-Star break last year. That's a whopping undertaking, by any stretch, since there are a lot of obscure and short-time major-leaguers mixed in among the Jewish Hall of Famers such as Hank Greenberg and Sandy Koufax, including 42 guys who never were featured on a card during their playing careers. And that brings back memories of Don McPherson, a longtime Northern California collector who died a couple of years ago in Arizona, where he had retired. McPherson was a collector in the truest sense of the word, and, in his way, a passionate baseball historian. His baseball card collection was vast and eclectic. But perhaps the most interesting thing about him was a project he undertook late in life to acquire a photo of everyone who had played major-league baseball. Ponder that for a moment. Everyone who ever played major-league baseball. His good friend, Phoenix area dealer/collector Lew Lipset, recalled McPherson's massive pursuit. "Early on," Lipset said, "Don realized that fulfilling that ambition with cards would be impossible and he started branching out. "He reveled in the collector issued sets that would contain obscure players, and later on he loved the store-issued sets such as Target made for the Dodgers, which contained many photos of players he was looking for. "He got to the point that there were only about 600 major-leaguers from 1876 on that he didn't have some kind of picture of. And then he bought a Xerox machine and started making 'cards' of each player using the best likeness he could, adding biographical information on the bottom in a white panel. "He'd make his cards one letter of the alphabet at a time. He would pull all the 'A's' out of whatever set he thought had the best picture of a player, be it a Topps card, a T206 (tobacco) card, an Old Judge, an exhibit, a Target card or an extracted head shot from a team card. "I'd walk into his house and ask him what letter he was up to, he'd tell me and I'd see a pile of cards of that letter on his desk. When that letter was complete and all the copies were made, Don would put each card back where it came from and start on the next letter." When the process was complete, Lipset said, McPherson had filled 13 3- inch loose-leaf books, filled with four pictures to a page, alphabetically arranged. "It was an incredible undertaking that to the best of my knowledge had never even been approached," Lipset said. And McPherson wasn't done. He discovered a scanner that would do a much better job than a copying machine and started on a revision. But that was never close to being completed. "When Don died," Lipset said, "there was a large pile of cards beginning with the letter 'B' sitting on his office desk." Lipset hopes the Baseball Hall of Fame or some baseball research organization like SABR might take up McPherson's quest, with help from recent issues like the Jewish ballplayers set, which is available for $100 (and up, in different versions) through the American Jewish Historical Society at (800) 863-8650, or online at www.ajhs-store.com. Were he still around, there's no question that McPherson would have been first in line for one of those sets.

 
There's a worthy new set of baseball cards on the market called "Jewish Major Leaguers." The 142-card set, produced by the American Jewish Historical Society in cooperation with Jewish Major Leaguers Inc. and printed by Fleer, purports to picture "every identifiable" Jewish player in the big leagues from the 1870s to the All-Star break last year. That's a whopping undertaking, by any stretch, since there are a lot of obscure and short-time major-leaguers mixed in among the Jewish Hall of Famers such as Hank Greenberg and Sandy Koufax, including 42 guys who never were featured on a card during their playing careers. And that brings back memories of Don McPherson, a longtime Northern California collector who died a couple of years ago in Arizona, where he had retired. McPherson was a collector in the truest sense of the word, and, in his way, a passionate baseball historian. His baseball card collection was vast and eclectic. But perhaps the most interesting thing about him was a project he undertook late in life to acquire a photo of everyone who had played major-league baseball. Ponder that for a moment. Everyone who ever played major-league baseball. His good friend, Phoenix area dealer/collector Lew Lipset, recalled McPherson's massive pursuit. "Early on," Lipset said, "Don realized that fulfilling that ambition with cards would be impossible and he started branching out. "He reveled in the collector issued sets that would contain obscure players, and later on he loved the store-issued sets such as Target made for the Dodgers, which contained many photos of players he was looking for. "He got to the point that there were only about 600 major-leaguers from 1876 on that he didn't have some kind of picture of. And then he bought a Xerox machine and started making 'cards' of each player using the best likeness he could, adding biographical information on the bottom in a white panel. "He'd make his cards one letter of the alphabet at a time. He would pull all the 'A's' out of whatever set he thought had the best picture of a player, be it a Topps card, a T206 (tobacco) card, an Old Judge, an exhibit, a Target card or an extracted head shot from a team card. "I'd walk into his house and ask him what letter he was up to, he'd tell me and I'd see a pile of cards of that letter on his desk. When that letter was complete and all the copies were made, Don would put each card back where it came from and start on the next letter." When the process was complete, Lipset said, McPherson had filled 13 3- inch loose-leaf books, filled with four pictures to a page, alphabetically arranged. "It was an incredible undertaking that to the best of my knowledge had never even been approached," Lipset said. And McPherson wasn't done. He discovered a scanner that would do a much better job than a copying machine and started on a revision. But that was never close to being completed. "When Don died," Lipset said, "there was a large pile of cards beginning with the letter 'B' sitting on his office desk." Lipset hopes the Baseball Hall of Fame or some baseball research organization like SABR might take up McPherson's quest, with help from recent issues like the Jewish ballplayers set, which is available for $100 (and up, in different versions) through the American Jewish Historical Society at (800) 863-8650, or online at www.ajhs-store.com. Were he still around, there's no question that McPherson would have been first in line for one of those sets.
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There's a worthy new set of baseball cards on the market called "Jewish Major Leaguers." The 142-card set, produced by the American Jewish Historical Society in cooperation with Jewish Major Leaguers Inc. and printed by Fleer, purports to picture "every identifiable" Jewish player in the big leagues from the 1870s to the All-Star break last year. That's a whopping undertaking, by any stretch, since there are a lot of obscure and short-time major-leaguers mixed in among the Jewish Hall of Famers such as Hank Greenberg and Sandy Koufax, including 42 guys who never were featured on a card during their playing careers. And that brings back memories of Don McPherson, a longtime Northern California collector who died a couple of years ago in Arizona, where he had retired. McPherson was a collector in the truest sense of the word, and, in his way, a passionate baseball historian. His baseball card collection was vast and eclectic. But perhaps the most interesting thing about him was a project he undertook late in life to acquire a photo of everyone who had played major-league baseball. Ponder that for a moment. Everyone who ever played major-league baseball. His good friend, Phoenix area dealer/collector Lew Lipset, recalled McPherson's massive pursuit. "Early on," Lipset said, "Don realized that fulfilling that ambition with cards would be impossible and he started branching out. "He reveled in the collector issued sets that would contain obscure players, and later on he loved the store-issued sets such as Target made for the Dodgers, which contained many photos of players he was looking for. "He got to the point that there were only about 600 major-leaguers from 1876 on that he didn't have some kind of picture of. And then he bought a Xerox machine and started making 'cards' of each player using the best likeness he could, adding biographical information on the bottom in a white panel. "He'd make his cards one letter of the alphabet at a time. He would pull all the 'A's' out of whatever set he thought had the best picture of a player, be it a Topps card, a T206 (tobacco) card, an Old Judge, an exhibit, a Target card or an extracted head shot from a team card. "I'd walk into his house and ask him what letter he was up to, he'd tell me and I'd see a pile of cards of that letter on his desk. When that letter was complete and all the copies were made, Don would put each card back where it came from and start on the next letter." When the process was complete, Lipset said, McPherson had filled 13 3- inch loose-leaf books, filled with four pictures to a page, alphabetically arranged. "It was an incredible undertaking that to the best of my knowledge had never even been approached," Lipset said. And McPherson wasn't done. He discovered a scanner that would do a much better job than a copying machine and started on a revision. But that was never close to being completed. "When Don died," Lipset said, "there was a large pile of cards beginning with the letter 'B' sitting on his office desk." Lipset hopes the Baseball Hall of Fame or some baseball research organization like SABR might take up McPherson's quest, with help from recent issues like the Jewish ballplayers set, which is available for $100 (and up, in different versions) through the American Jewish Historical Society at (800) 863-8650, or online at www.ajhs-store.com. Were he still around, there's no question that McPherson would have been first in line for one of those sets.
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There's a worthy new set of baseball cards on the market called "Jewish Major Leaguers." The 142-card set, produced by the American Jewish Historical Society in cooperation with Jewish Major Leaguers Inc. and printed by Fleer, purports to picture "every identifiable" Jewish player in the big leagues from the 1870s to the All-Star break last year. That's a whopping undertaking, by any stretch, since there are a lot of obscure and short-time major-leaguers mixed in among the Jewish Hall of Famers such as Hank Greenberg and Sandy Koufax, including 42 guys who never were featured on a card during their playing careers. And that brings back memories of Don McPherson, a longtime Northern California collector who died a couple of years ago in Arizona, where he had retired. McPherson was a collector in the truest sense of the word, and, in his way, a passionate baseball historian. His baseball card collection was vast and eclectic. But perhaps the most interesting thing about him was a project he undertook late in life to acquire a photo of everyone who had played major-league baseball. Ponder that for a moment. Everyone who ever played major-league baseball. His good friend, Phoenix area dealer/collector Lew Lipset, recalled McPherson's massive pursuit. "Early on," Lipset said, "Don realized that fulfilling that ambition with cards would be impossible and he started branching out. "He reveled in the collector issued sets that would contain obscure players, and later on he loved the store-issued sets such as Target made for the Dodgers, which contained many photos of players he was looking for. "He got to the point that there were only about 600 major-leaguers from 1876 on that he didn't have some kind of picture of. And then he bought a Xerox machine and started making 'cards' of each player using the best likeness he could, adding biographical information on the bottom in a white panel. "He'd make his cards one letter of the alphabet at a time. He would pull all the 'A's' out of whatever set he thought had the best picture of a player, be it a Topps card, a T206 (tobacco) card, an Old Judge, an exhibit, a Target card or an extracted head shot from a team card. "I'd walk into his house and ask him what letter he was up to, he'd tell me and I'd see a pile of cards of that letter on his desk. When that letter was complete and all the copies were made, Don would put each card back where it came from and start on the next letter." When the process was complete, Lipset said, McPherson had filled 13 3- inch loose-leaf books, filled with four pictures to a page, alphabetically arranged. "It was an incredible undertaking that to the best of my knowledge had never even been approached," Lipset said. And McPherson wasn't done. He discovered a scanner that would do a much better job than a copying machine and started on a revision. But that was never close to being completed. "When Don died," Lipset said, "there was a large pile of cards beginning with the letter 'B' sitting on his office desk." Lipset hopes the Baseball Hall of Fame or some baseball research organization like SABR might take up McPherson's quest, with help from recent issues like the Jewish ballplayers set, which is available for $100 (and up, in different versions) through the American Jewish Historical Society at (800) 863-8650, or online at www.ajhs-store.com. Were he still around, there's no question that McPherson would have been first in line for one of those sets.
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THX :thumbup:
 
Since average speed is always calculated as a distance (length) divided by a time, the units of average speed are always a distance unit divided by a time unit. Common units of speed are meters/second (abbreviated m/s), centimeters/second (cm/s), kilometers/hour (km/hr), miles/hour (mi/hr - try to avoid the common abbreviation mph), and many others.
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Newsflash, the units of ANY speed are always described as a unit of distance over a unit of time, not just average speed. :nerd:
 
Hardest thread to click on, EVAH.I suspect we won't be seeing any Parkinson's patients in here any time soon. :ph34r:

 
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