Nice pick up on the Laroy(Leroy), if you ever decide to part with it I am very interested.
There are a multitude of players that only played for a fleeting instant yet made the W600 offering, Louis Castro is just one that pops to mind. Some of these "no namers" are very tough to find. The HOFers are usually easier but in much more demand AND they were offered for several years. Also, there are many many players that only appear on the W600 issue as they were either not good enough or started to late to make the E107 issue, or were out of baseball by 1908/1909 when the myriad of T & E card sets began.
As a "set" that was offered by mail order and you picked who you wanted, the population extant of any one player will be impossible to predict. If there were a Topps or T206 issue we would be able to extrapolate some kind of survival rate for each player. Not possible when the general public was free to pick and choose whom they wanted.
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