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Troy KirkI know the great grandson of Doc Bushong, who was a member of the St. Louis Browns championship teams in the 1880s. His name is Steve Bushong, and he actively collects the cards of Doc Bushong and has a website where he displays them. With last year's St. Louis-Detroit World Series, he was interviewed on local St. Louis TV about the 1887 St. Louis-Detroit World Series, in which Doc participated. He tells me that after the Browns won the World Series in 1886, Brown's owner Chris Von Der Ahe named a bunch of towns after the Browns players. There is still a town named Bushong.
I've also heard from a bunch of relatives of movie stars that wanted to buy their old movie star cards. Robert Montgomery, Anita Page, and Spencer Tracy come to mind, as well as a lot of lesser-known stars.