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Posted By: barrysloate

Ted- you are correct about that Robert Wagner show, but I don't remember the details either. One fascinating aspect of the baseball cards in "Pride of the Yankees" (and also an inaccuracy) is that although the kid is holding what I believe to be an M101-4 of Babe Ruth, he actually refers to them as "having some Sweet Caporals." The error aside, what is interesting is that the designation "T206" hadn't been coined in 1942, and I guess they all were simply referred to by the ad backs. This leads to the question were all of the white bordered cards called Sweet Caporals in their day? In other words, if you had one with a Uzit back, would you say "I have a Uzit" or would you still say "I have some Sweet Caporals?" Of course we don't know the answer, just posing the question.