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joeCouldn't agree more, Bruce. I just picked this up yesterday and almost passed out at some of the stuff in these collections.
I had no idea that the "Live Oak Polka" was written about a Rochester team - the Live Oaks. Yet another Rochester-related item I'll never own, along with the Brunner's Bread team pics that I recently found about. Oh, well.
One interesting thing in the book: One of the collections had a unique advertising piecefor the OLd Judge cards, but the cards pictured on the ad were hand-drawn, like the A&G cards. The technology to put photos on the cards obviously existed at the time - they're on the cards, after all - so why put hand-drawn examples of cards on the ads when the actual cards are so much better looking? Woouldn't you want to advertise the actual cards people would find in their pack of smokes?
Either way it's a beautiful piece that no one would ever have seen without this book.