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Posted By: Steve Dawson

The new issue (#9) of Old Cardboard has a good article about the Leaf set, written by Ted Z. In it he says:

"Speaking about Paige, there is an ongoing debate as to which card is his true rookie card, the Leaf or the Bowman? This author's opinion is that the Leaf Paige was first in the Marketplace.

The Bowman Paige card was not available until the Fall of 1949 when the last series of Bowman's high-numbered cards were available in the stores. By then, Leaf had introduced its football set nationwide and the Leaf baseball cards would have been depleted from the store shelves several months before."



Steve