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Posted By: barrysloate

Marc- When you said no N172 have shown up in original collections did you mean none whatsoever or just no California players? It sounds like you meant no California League but it still makes little sense because if you were using the baseball cards to help market your cigarettes where would you want pictures of local favorites to be distributed- in the same city as the player or 3000 miles away? Something still makes me feel that they were available in the west but somehow disappeared. Maybe before the San Francisco earthquake they were easily found but were all destroyed in the fire. That doesn't explain the Sacramento players, but nobody knows just how much was lost forever in 1906.