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Frank WakefieldThose are nice cards. A beautiful Burns.
The ultimate #1 transgression as baseball developed was the honesty of the game, so game fixing and gambling were taboo. Most of these guys were involved with that, to varying degrees. KM Landis hammered these guys, which helped to minimize the gambling ties in subsequent years. Pete would be an obvious modern day example of someone who didn't take game integrity seriously. As he bet with gamblers, they could see how he bet, and when he didn't bet, and glean information from that... plus once a guy gets indebted to the gamblers, then they could manipulate what you do, a la NBA basketball referee...
Great cards!