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Originally Posted by Chris Counts
The Play Balls are missing quite a few players. For instance, there's no Feller, Grove, Dean, Mize, Slaughter, Lombardi, Lyons, York, Boudreau, Gordon — and all active Cubs. Curiously, most of the missing players are from Midwest teams, while the Plays Balls were made on the East Coast.
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Most of these players appear in the 1941 Doubleplay set. I don't have all the details, but I believe they were under contract to Gum Products, Inc., of Cambridge, Mass., which produced Doubleplay. Whether these contracts took effect as early as 1939, I do not know.