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Originally Posted by packs
The Bond Bread portrait does those things and was released a full year earlier in 1947. It was available in every American city that had a baseball team at the time.
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Then answer this question.
If they were so well known and widely distributed, why are they so unbelievably rare and seemingly hard to find today?
And if you can't logically, sensically, and factually answer that question, then maybe the answer is that they weren't as widely distributed and as readily available as you may think and claim. And that includes the possibility that these first Bond Bread cards may have been available for only a very limited time as well.
Everyone knew Robinson was the first ever Negro player in the majors, so this initial card of his would be historic, and everyone would have known it. And maybe if not as highly collected and desired among white people back then, definitely something black people would have grabbed and held onto, no? Sorry, that is a second question, but it goes right back to my first one and why there aren't more of these cards still around then if it was so historically important, and supposedly so readily available everywhere to everyone.