Poster for the East-West Major League Baseball Classic

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A poster for the East-West Major League Baseball Classic held on March 28, 1970. The poster is white and features a yellow and red graphic of a baseball pitcher, mid-pitch. The pitcher is outlined in blue, white, red, green, and yellow bands of varying thicknesses. In a blue field in the top left corner is white text of varying sized fonts that reads, [East-West Classic / Major League Baseball’s / tribute to / the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. / Sponsored by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, President]. Details of the event and ticket prices and information are written in two (2) blue fields in the bottom third of the poster that read, [2:00 P.M. / Dodger Stadium / Saturday, March 28, 1970] and [Ticket Prices - $10.00/$5.00/$3.50/$2.00 / TICKETRON / A SERVICE OF TICKET RESERVATION SYSTEMS, INC.

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