Leon, you got it for a pretty good price.
A hobby friend of mine has been looking for one for quite some time and we discussed this one and I laid off so he could go for it. I think he forgot to set his snipe and it went for lower han these normally go for (even with the damage).
I actively look for them and have 4 right now, they are very hard to find. I have checklisted only about 10-15 players as of now that have been found w/ the back but more undoubtedly exist.
The players I currently have...
-George Bell (Brooklyn) -big head version
-Fred Clarke (Pittsburgh)
-Red Nelson (Toledo)
-Lew Ritter (Kansas City) -Graded SGC 84
-I also used to own a Jim McGinley but I believe I sold this one to Lyman several years back and it is the Old Cardboard copy (I believe).
About 5 years ago or so there was a batch of about 10-15 of them on ebay. This was before I realized theis significance and bid on all of them and only got the fairly low grade Nelson and McGinley BUT I never bothered to write down who the other people w/ the back were as that one find would have likely doubled the current known checklist.
Luckily, a few years ago I purchased the Clarke off of ebay as I needed the "with "H" at the end of Pittsburgh" variation and there was a PSA 4 on ebay w/ a BIN of around $100 so I just bought it w/ no back scan and was pretty happy when the card arrived and it had the "208" line.
-Rhett
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