Thread: Who is the scarce 1948 Leaf boxing card??
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Old 04-20-2007, 07:40 PM
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Default Who is the scarce 1948 Leaf boxing card??
Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

Here is the 49-card Leaf set in one neat picture. Rocky Graziano (#50) was printed on the very 1st press run
and was located on this sheet in the lowermost right corner. Graziano immediately forced Leaf to remove his
card (for reasons unknown). Arturo Godoy replaced Rocky on this sheet.

This was really a damn shame for boxing fans and collectors, because 1948 was the year of the great champ-
ionship contests between Graziano and Tony Zale....and everyone wanted Rocky's card.





TED Z collection

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