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Originally Posted by ALR-bishop
Those are the only 3 I am missing from the 5 baseball sets Topps put out in 1951. Even have both versions of the Team Cards. These 3 were never issued, maybe for the reason Paul mentioned but their scarcity would seem to incicate they were not printed and held back but probably never printed in any volume. A board member created some fantasy versions that in hand would never be confused with the originals but look pretty good in the binder with my set.
I think Larry S told me he once bought one of them some years back at a show but that he ulitimately decided was a fake and returned it. I may be wrong in that recollection
The last time I saw them come up I bid a lot but was not enven close. Not going to even try this time
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Me neither, Al.
Maybe Keith Olberman or Bill Gates, eh?
The ancient rumor I heard long ago was that Larry Fritsch wondered why he could only find eight cards in the set, so he wrote to Woody Gelman asking about it and Gelman pulled copies of the three unissued cards out his files and sent them to Fritsch. Don't know if Fritsch was ever told the reason the cards were not issued, but I think it's possible that Stanky may have complained about compensation for his Redback card, while Roberts and Konstanty had other contractual issues. Perhaps Gelman saved the prototypes because he hoped to resolve those problems because the "Whiz Kids" were quite popular at that moment.