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Retired major league baseball players from Canada know Kelly Sage as "the Canadian card guy."

For many of them, the Saskatoon man has become the best person to get them their own baseball cards.

Of the roughly 50,000 total cards in his collection, Sage estimates he has between 30,000 and 35,000 individually different cards of Canadians.

He said he started collecting baseball cards in the early 1970s in the small village of Cardale, Man., when he was five or six years old.

"The very first card I saw when I opened my first pack was Bob Bai

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