Here's something you don't see everyday.
Featured at Lelands Auction is the above 1956 prayer/mass card extolling its adherents to pray for the Brooklyn Dodgers. As you can see, on the reverse it makes reference to the "death" of the "Brooklyn Dodger Bums" on October 10th - the day the team lost Game 7 of the 1956 World Series to the New York Yankees. It adds:
"We have loved them during life; let us not abandon them, until we have conducted them by our prayers, into the house of the Lord." - St. Ambrose
The melding of religious devotion and local team fanaticism was one of the hallmarks of the old Brooklyn club.