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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
- </history>
- <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>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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