Posted By:
Andy BaranHal,
The Alpha Photo cards will be in the 2003 SCD Big Book. All of the known cards currently exist in one collection. I'd kill for the McGraw card!! Interestingly enough, no Alph card of Willie Keeler has ever been discovered. I believe that it was originally part of the set, as he was a star player on the team, and the images on the known cards are the same as those on the 1894 cabinet. It is possible that the Keeler card did not survive along with the rest of the set. It's too bad (and hard to believe)that most of the HOFers on the 1894 Baltimore Team did not make it into the Mayo Cut Plug set. Can you imagine Mayo cards of McGraw, Keeler, Jennings, & Kelley, as well as Cy Young and Jesse Burkett? The Mayo set could have been ever more historically significant than it already is. I know that all of these cards would be at the top of my wantlist if they existed.