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Old 01-01-2025, 11:52 AM
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Also, in case anyone is interested, T206 players started dying while the cards were being produced between 1909-11 (Powers, McGann, Nichols, and Joss), and thereafter died at a fairly low annual cadence of no more than 15 players (1947 and 1956) on an annual basis over the next 60-70 years, with 40% (159) dying between 1947 and 1961.
I guess if you were a player in the T206 set, 1947 to 1961 was a nice stretch to get through still alive.


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