"BUCKEYE LOCAL SPEAKER — Phil S. Dixon became interested in baseball in general and later Negro League Baseball when he began collecting baseball cards in his youth. He memorized statistics on the backs of the cards and by age 19, the avid collector had approximately 50,000 cards. ""There is loads of history on the back of those cards,"" he told youngsters at Buckeye Local High School during an assembly on Thursday. - Esther McCoy"
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