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Posted By: hrbaker

Vaughn,

There is a picture of the artwork/proof sheet of the intended "extra" 12 cards in the Beckett Sport Americana Baseball Card Price Guide of 1982. This is the first place I can remember seeing the artwork. The
additional cards are/were:

Benny Frey, Pete Fox, Phil Cavarretta, Leon Goslin, Mel Harder, Roger Cramer, Gene Moore, Rip Collins, Linus Frey, Vernon "Lefty" Gomez, Hornsby/Bottomley (Browns) and Lon Warnecke.

The cards were actually produced (sort of) as a quasi-reprint set and were available from Denny Eckes' Den's Collector's Den back in 1981. I remember buying two sets, 1 to add to my Diamond Star set and one to get autographs on.

I am sure that someone else on the board can tell you where you may be able to more readily locate a photo of the proof sheet.

Heck if you wait long enough, you may find a AAA graded copy of the photo out of the Beckett guide available on ebay.