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Joe D.I will go with 'grey' because Jeff says so.
He saw the card in person - and I trust he knows these cards.
It really isn't grey or white in appearance - it is more a cream color or an aged white (like the front border in the scan).
I wanted this card for a while - and
I looked at many many many 1949 Robinson with a critical eye. Sometimes overly critical.
I chose this card (and paid strong on it) - because it has absolutely perfect color registration.
So many times I would see this card with a trail of white on the left side or right side of Jackie's face.
Or the white would appear on the top of Jackie's hat. The red needed to move in one direction or another and was not in fit.
Yet the graders would still give a poor register card a high grade.
This one is spot on perfect registration.
The Leaf cards (in general) are worse than the Bowmans with regard to registration.
I kid with Jeff - but I am sure I will buy the Leaf Jackie Robinson one day as well.
Why not pick up his second best rookie card?
Lets call it #2... just like when my kids go potty and I ask if they need to go #2 
(I will say, I like the Leaf Paige better than the Bowman Paige - sot that is next. What a challenge that will be -
to find an in-register Leaf Paige.)