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Posted By: DJ

From what I understand from talking to people, there are perhaps 40-50* known examples in existence. They came in orange and green and always in rather cruddy condition. I believe that this Chance up for auction now was once in an Old Judge auction several years back. There was 'a find' in the late nineties and the origins of these cards still remain a mystery.

According to 'Total Baseball' (among other sources), Chance was manager of the Red Sox in 1923, but according to several other sources, including an article from 1924 when he died, he 'was' the manager of the White Sox.

Frank Chance, manager of the Chicago White Sox, died here [last] night after a long illness. For several months Chance had been recuperating in Southern California from a breakdown suffered in Chicago last spring. He was at his apartment here [last] night when another sudden attack caused his removal to Good Samaritan Hospital, where he died."

DJ

* even though some believe that number may be around 100. I'm really not sure.