The detective work that played out on this Net54 forum in May-June 2010 remains a fascinating display of suspicion, research and ingenuity. The community meticulously evaluated and debated every pixel of the card, every piece of historical context, and made remarkable discoveries.
What seems to be lacking in the decade since the discovery is the story of the actual in-game photograph and Shoeless Joe’s distinctive right-ankle wrap that provides smoking-gun evidence.
Those stories, along with a bit of new research and a summary of the Net54 findings, were recently published at the
CollectingLegends.com website.