A hotbed for Major League baseball stars, Oklahoma beamed with pride over its native sons and let the world know about it in this Summer 1959 issue of Oklahoma Today magazine. On the back cover, (20) Oklahoma-born stars are portrayed on an uncut sheet of baseball cards with black-and-white likenesses and pastel-colored backgrounds. Among the notables are Dizzy and Paul Dean, Carl Hubbell, Mickey Mantle, Allie Reynolds, Warren Spahn and Lloyd and Paul Waner. With printed identifiers on the reverse (inside back cover), the page presents (NM-MT).