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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

Well, we are consistent.....you have seen just two Graziano's and I have seen only two. And,
there is no way of telling if we saw the same two cards.

While the other 49 cards in the 1948 Leaf set are printed on WHITE or GRAY cardboard stock,
the Graziano exists only with WHITE cardboard....which tells us he was issued in the very 1st
press run and immediately discontinued. The GRAY stock version of this set was printed in the
latter press runs.

Rocky Graziano was a guest speaker at the 1984 National banquet in Parsippany, NJ. I recall
that he was quite crude, and I wouldn't be surprised if he gave the Leaf Gum Co. a lot of grief;
so, they yanked his card. It's a shame, because in 1948, the Tony Zale vs Rocky Graziano con-
tests in Chicago were "big events"....and, Leaf was based in Chicago.

TED Z