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Originally Posted by Baseball Rarities
I won the 1945 KC Monarchs photo. AFAIK, it is the only photo of that team with both Jackie Robinson (bottom right) and Satchel Paige (top row, fourth from left) in it. It was Robinson's first year of professional baseball and his only year in the Negro Leagues. I may have overpaid, but who knows when I would have had a chance to pick up another. The periphery is rough, but I think that it will frame up nicely.
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I think you got a bargain. Another auction, another time, I could see it going for double or triple what you paid, which is relative chump change in our hobby. That money could have bought you any number of pretty common pieces in this auction and others. Look what you got instead.