Posted By:
petecldRobertS,
What you say is correct but if someone is going to create a card to deceive you would want to get as close to the original as possible and these have obvious differences to originals. Plus, like you said, why pick Springfield?
I feel a fan of the team did these back in 1909 to get player autographs. They look to be authentic Rose postcards but made up to reflect players of the home town team that the Rose company skipped.