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T206CollectorI don't know exactly what it was about this card, but I really found it fascinating. It was described as "Commissioner Bowie Kuhn's first baseball card" and he supposedly treasured it because his first baseball experience was as a scoreboard attendant for Clark Griffith's Washington Senators.
I just thought it was an interesting twist on T206 and is quite in keeping with my research on T206 collectors and signed T206 cards as well, to the extent that this one has a personal touch, too, if not a signature. For just under $500 with juice I couldn't resist -- though in the back of my head I recognize that I just paid about $450 more than this card is worth without the provenance of the owner. Still, a Hall of Famers card owned by a Hall of Famer....
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