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Posted By: davidcycleback

I wouldn't bother trying to remove it. Most ink doesn't dissolve in water anyway, and you're likely to do more damage than good trying to scrub it off. If you did find something that dissolved the ink, the ink would likely smear or bleed, making it a lot worse.

Besides, the card looks nice as is. Leave well enough alone, as they say.

As an aside, I don't think any baseball card ink from any era dissolves in water. While water may warp the card or do something to the surface texture, it won't dissolve the printing ink. In the lab, specific kind of alcohols are used to dissolve printing ink. Water won't do anything but get the printed object wet.