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Originally Posted by tireolddawg
I recently learned about the 1948 Signal Oil minor league set which used color photographs. Does anyone know of any earlier sets using color photographs of the players?
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I do not know of any earlier than 1948 Signal. Yes, there are others colorized, but Signal was first with actual color photography I truly believe. And those Signal cards of the Casey Stengel-led Oakland Oaks with Cookie Lavagetto, Ernie Lombardi, Dario Lodigiani, Johnny Babich and Billy Martin are beautiful cards. I also like the broadcaster Bud Foster card, who as a civilian correspondent with the Marines in WW2 was wounded in combat! This is one of my very favorite sets of cards.
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