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Old 12-10-2016, 05:58 PM
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Originally Posted by z28jd View Post
Years ago I started buying all the T204 Tom Reilly cards I could find. I wasn't hoarding them per se, I planned on destroying them because he wasn't good enough to be in the set and I thought 120 cards seemed more logical for a set size than 121. It was also out of spite for no Pirates in the set. Maybe someday I'll start buying them again to finish my goal, but I think it's been at least 14 years since I bought one.

Gutted I missed the one on the BST this morning.

Here's the article from July 20th, 1908 where Reilly got sold to St. Louis from the Class D Gulfport-Biloxi Sandy Crabs.

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