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Originally Posted by Sean
Hey Ted, can you explain something? I always heard that Larry Fritch found the first Doyle Nat'l in 1980, but he didn't tell anyone until the second showed up in 1986. Was the Russell Doyle known in the '80s? Or was it only noticed after the second Doyle was auctioned?
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Sean
Senator Richard Russell passed away in 1971. As a 13 year old kid (1910), he collected T206's in his hometown of Winder, Georgia. He would pull T206's from PIEDMONT packs.
His political documents and his sportscards collection (T206's, T210's and T205's) were donated to his Alma Mater (Univ. of Georgia) circa 1973. However, his BB card collection
was not available for public viewing until the early 1980's.
I'm not certain if anyone in the hobby back then was aware of Russell's Joe Doyle N. Y. Nat'L card....or his red Cobb card with a "Ty Cobb" back
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