Sorry for the hijack
Hi Brian, it’s amazing the minutiae one remembers. I learned of the New York city series some time back when I was researching Louis Drucke, the Giants pitcher who appears in only a handful of sets, none of which are standard “cards” unless you count Pinkerton cabinets in that group. Anyway, one of Matty’s appearances in that series was in relief of Drucke, who faltered in the 7th inning of game 3. Five days later Drucke was on board a New York subway train that derailed, and what were thought to be relatively minor injuries then manifested during the following Spring training games. He was never the same, and was out of baseball not long thereafter– a shame in that he was projected to be a star.
Sorry for the hijack, but I always wondered who this Drucke guy was and it led me down this path.
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