Thank you all for the nice support of my first thread here at Net54. I appreciate all of your input.
David, that is some Matty you have there! Easily one of the finest extant.
Here is a Matty original photo by the master lensman Paul Thompson that was clearly used in making his 1914 Cracker Jack issue:
http://tinyurl.com/m6b53j
And a popular Conlon original of Gehrig:
http://tinyurl.com/mns4d8