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Originally Posted by darkhorse9
This isn't looking to start a firestorm, but an interesting question was brought up to me
In the early post war card years (say 1948-1950) integrated baseball was still a touchy subject. It's possible many collectors at that time might have refused to keep cards of certain players. Could that have had an impact on the survivor numbers of those player's cards?
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Back in the day, set collecting was something a lot of the kids did. So, even if the racist ones pulled black players from the packs, they still had to keep them, right ??
Even the doubles of black players were probably kept (so they could be traded away for the players you needed to complete the set!)