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Posted By: barrysloate

Ted- I have never been skeptical of the Doyle variation and believe it is a legitimate rarity. Since there were two Doyles playing in NY at the time- Larry with the Giants and Joe with the Yankess- it would be easy for the typesetter to mix the two up. I believe the error was caught very quickly and instead of changing the typeface to read "Amer Lg", the "Natl Lg" was simply removed from the plate. The fact that it took a long time to discover does not discredit it.