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Originally Posted by Kzoo
Peter.............^^^ That card's a classic!
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I thought the same thing! When Peter started out with, "I hate that card...", I thought he was going to talk about the Ted Williams card.
I get it, though, Peter -- once you see something in a card or an image, it's hard to unsee it.
In a similar way, I've always thought the smiling portrait on Mickey Mantle's 1956 Topps card looked weird, yet for many collectors it's their favorite Mantle card.
BTW, here is the original image used for the Play Ball DiMaggio for both the 1940 and 1941 Play Ball sets. You can see where the baseball card lost a good amount of the sharpness and detail in the image. It also shows a little better why Joe has that expression. [this is not my photo, but was borrowed from a prior Leland's auction]
And here's a comparison with Dean's nicely registered example (cool card, Dean):
