My guess is that if he was an active photographer interested in baseball history in the 1970's the Rowe postcards were probably the cheapest and easiest way to get classic images in high quality. Maybe he knew him but I would think that just because he had a ton of these doesn't mean much, there are probably a half million of these postcards out there (maybe more). If I were a photographer at that time and interested in history, I would have ordered every Rowe postcard there was for reference!
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