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Rick,
Regarding Nicholls ("A" on Cap) from the same publication:
"There's no 'A' on the cap of any Athletics' player in the series. Yet, thumbing through a pile of T206 commons in my pal Matt Federgreen's store in Beverly Hills six or seven years ago, something struck me about this particular card of Nicholls with hands on knees. There was something wrong with the cap. Instead of the usual, faint vertical stripes, was a letter 'A'--consistent in design wiht the team logo shown prominently on most of the uniforms of the Athletics' players in the series. It was blurry, it was indistinct, but it was there. I wasn't sure, so I sent it to Lew Lipset. He saw it, too. Definitely there--a blurry 'A' at the correct angle where a letter or insignia would be on a baseball cap. And those thin vertical stripes emanating from the point of Nicholls' cap in all the other copies I've ever seen just arn't there on this one."
Scot