Posted By:
Brian Weisner Hi Ted,
I think you put the nail on the head. I do believe the American Lithograph Co. made an error on the Doyle card. I believe the printers assumed that the pitching card was just another pose of Larry and added the NAT'L to the card. After all there were 5 cards of Chase, 4 Cobb's, 3 of Camnitz, and the list goes on. In fact, it appears that one of Camnitz's poses may have been one of his brothers, and not Howie, so I can see how this could have happened. Besides how many caramel cards depict the wrong player with the wrong picture? Quite a few, if memory serves. Besides, it's not like anybody would recognize Larry Doyle, much less Slow Joe.
The real question to me, is when they corrected there mistake, why they failed to add NY AMERICAN to the card? Be well Brian