Here are type cards of the 25 2000+ hit Prewar players whose careers were either entirely or mostly in the 20th century. Kuhel snuck in twice by being on the 1935 Goudey card with Myer. And the Elliot card is Postwar. And Moses is a secretarial signature. And George J. Burns is a stamp.
The world is indeed not perfect, nor should it be for the Prewar collector. Nor is it fair that two George Burns played and excelled for so long in the same era. The comedian George Burns, born in 1896, claimed he selected the stage name of George Burns because of these two (at that time) active baseball players. Then why did George J., born in 1889, and George H., born in 1893, only get to live to 76 and 84, when cigar smoking George got to live to 100? The manners of some people!
Brian
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