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Old 12-16-2009, 09:16 AM
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Originally Posted by scgaynor View Post
He did them as a collector issue for guys who wanted player photos of a specific team or a specific year. You can't have a complete 1948 Phillies set without Sam Nahem, so he created a postcard of Sam Nahem. There was a relatively small group of early collectors who would write to each other looking for specific player photos and Rowe was one of the guys that would fill their needs, especially since he had Burke's images.

Scott
So basically he was a photograph collector. I guess that makes sense. I wonder how the licensing worked for those pictures...
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