After closing out his HOF MLB career, Arky Vaughan went to San Francisco for a final season in the sun with the PCL Seals. He was supposed to go on the team's 1949 postseason tour of Japan but retired instead. It was the first American goodwill tour of Japan since the war and did immeasurable good in restoring relations between the country. The Japanese card makers issued a number of menko (cartoon) and bromide (photographic) cards of the Seals, including these Vaughan cards:
And this one is so rare that no one can seem to figure out what it is:
