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I never met Buck in person but corresponded with him on both collecting and baseball research topics. He really liked W issues and was a fountain of knowledge on them, which he shared generously. This was back when the ACC was the only source otherwise. He schooled me on strip cards and we traded them. I recall him sending me a cigar box full of his strip card duplicates, saying, "Take what you can use," since it was so difficult to describe all the sets and permutations. As a SABR member, he was particularly keen on identifying the players in the T sets and sent around lists of the IDs of future/past major leaguers in T209, T210 and T212, which I can no longer find. One of the treasured portions of my collection is Buck's D311 set, on the backs of which he wrote each player's full name and playing history plus the name of the collector he acquired the card from as well as the year he obtained it. He was a truly nice man.
B0b Rich@rds0n