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Posted By: barrysloate

Okay, food for thought:

If the 13 card set was indeed a regional issue, distributed in Brooklyn, wouldn't the company have rushed it to market to take advantage of his instant popularity?

He was clearly less popular in other parts of the country, especially in the south and in cities where racism was prevalent, so the national set may not have been released with the same urgency.

Of course this is all speculation.