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Originally Posted by Leon
I either owned those 2 or ones just like them. That was several years ago. They don't have anything to do with this but when I see players in fancy suits, from the early 1900s, they remind me of this postcard.
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This was the same artwork as the poster-sized sample book Chance, which also had a WaJo, a Matty, and perhaps one or two other ballplayers. I had two of the Johnsons, perhaps the only ones I've ever seen, pass through my hands, and along with the others floating around the hobby at one time, it didn't seem as though they were all that rare. Of course, it takes time to realize just how scarce some of these things are, and after maybe 25 years without seeing a single example of any of them, that's certainly the case here. I'm also wondering if they made postcards of all of them, but Leon's is the first and only one of those I've ever seen, so who knows?