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Posted By: Chris Counts

Richard,

That's my favorite image of Ott as well. If you get a chance to see it, look at the last Mile High auction catalog. There's a photo in there of the colorized proof of the 1940 Ott card — it's a real beauty. Curiously, many of the Ott cards (Goudey, Diamond Stars, Double Play and Wheaties off the top of my head) show Mel without his hat. His hair is immaculate in each picture, so he must have been very self-conscious about how he looked on his cards ...