Frederick Foto was a Sacramento company so a lot of the players pictured have ties to Sacramento in some way but certainly not all of them.
The larger version of these I believe are actually the proofs that they used to make the small cards with. My copy you can see the ink or paint pen as a raised application on the surface of the card, and it is in the same spot as the name on the small/regular version.
The best player not named Babe Ruth may be Alexander. I have never seen this card so I am not sure if that is Grover Alexander as I see no Alexander playing in the PCL in 1921. There is also the possibility that a card will be found of Sam Crawford, Lefty O’Doul or Gavvy Cravath as they were all in the PCL that year.
Of the cards I have seen over the years IMO the best non Ruth card is one Leon just showed that was part of his collection (I now own it)... Ernie Shore. Shore was a popular Red Sox pitcher and one of Ruth’s fellow teammates and famously pitched a no hitter after Ruth was ejected from the game in the first inning for fighting with an umpire. Also interesting is that Joe Gedeon has a card and he was ejected along with the Black Sox after the 1920 season for knowledge of the fix.
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