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Butch7999 & Co.Brian, thanks again. We should check in here more often. There was indeed a thread in here over a year and a half ago that we totally whiffed on, discussing whether the WG2 AL set (like the generic editions) debuted in 1904 or was produced simultaneously with the WG3 NL set in 1906. The evidence Hal Lewis presented for 1906 is pretty convincing -- although we recall (hafta check deep into our notes) seeing similar arguments in favor of 1904 based on the team affiliations of still other players in the set. So it's pretty confusing, but fine, we'll update our records to call 'em both 1906 issues.
Still, that doesn't quite settle the Owen-Owens-O'Neill question (although if 1906 is right, it does make O'Neill a lot less likely since he'd moved from Boston to Washington to Chicago by then). There's gotta be another picture of Owens or O'Neill out there *somewhere,* eh?