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Originally Posted by G1911
Thank you, I totally missed that Louis. My collection mostly ends at 1912 but I’ve done a couple leaf sets and casually pick up oddities (I was the underbidder on that Fitzsimmons blank back). Love that PSA just slabs it as a normal card lol. That the colored background is shaped and designed to fit around both Louis and Hostak show it is not an ‘error’ and another cards blue layer added or something, but intentionally designed for these cards. I wonder if we will find similar versions of the other white background boxers.
In addition to the purple/red glove differences in some of the cards the Jeffries and Greb cards come in what seem to be to me intentional design changes, with their shirts in white, blue, or with only half of it blue. Just in case that is a helpful change to note for your research.
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There's no shortage of oddities in Leaf. My thinking is that there is probably a full sheet of salesman samples for the Boxing, Football, and Baseball cards. The ones that have serious changes, like background colors or different fronts were corrected in the main run of the cards. If this is the case, the rest of the cards that filled the sheet probably look like the main run of the cards, like a Sid Luckman, which would explain why there is a such a low population on certain cards that don't conform to the rest of the set. Thanks for sharing your insights, this all helps to dial in a solid theory!