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<text id=89TT0613>
<title>
Mar. 06, 1989: Business Notes:Toys
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Mar. 06, 1989 The Tower Fiasco
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 55
Business Notes
Toys
Chatter from The Batter
</hdr><body>
<p> Collecting baseball cards was once every parent's idea of a
nice quiet hobby. The only noise it inspired was the popping of
bubble gum. But this month LJN Toys will introduce baseball
cards that produce their own chatter when inserted into a
battery-operated player called Sportstalk. On tiny vinyl records
that have been laminated on the back of each baseball card,
players from Hank Aaron to Los Angeles Dodger Kirk Gibson
reminisce for some two minutes apiece about their famous
moments on the field. The retail price for the machine with four
cards will be $28; additional four-card packs will sell for $5.
The toymaker has already received 400,000 orders for Sportstalk
from such retailers as Toys "R" Us and Child World.
</p>
</body></article>
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