Tanner, you've increased my appreciation for the W514 cards. Thank you!
The first time I saw W514s, W512s, W515s... I wondered why anyone would bother to collect those bits of paper. They weren't cards, they were paper. Crude paper, like construction paper from kindergarten days. The fronts reminded me of the comic pages in an old Sunday newspaper. No printing on the back... Yuck. So I ignored them, passed up buying opportunities 30-35 years ago.
I'm now thankful that I outgrew that. I got W512s together, then a smattering of W513s, W514s, and W515s. Then about ten years ago I got a bit more interested in the players in W514, what a great assortment. Oh how I wish McMullen had gotten to the majors maybe 2 years sooner, and gotten a card in W514. I consider W514s one of the greatest snapshots of ballplayers. And what you've done shows that those fronts aren't mere comic strip type drawings; they are thoughtfully considered renderings. I like that Ruth's card shows him as a Yankee but its origin is from a Red Sox photograph.
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