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Originally Posted by brianp-beme
Jim Tobin is a below the borderline HOF candidate at the best. But the player on the "Mel Ott" card is actually Bill Crouch, who had a real slender, non-HOF MLB career, and missed the 1942 through 1944 years in organized ball, probably because of WW2 military service(?).
The card is, however, the first 1941 Goudey print on top I remember seeing that has a different player on top, so it does have that going for it.
Brian
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Yep, my error on calling him Tobin. It's the Bill Crouch card, as you said. Of the wrong-player labels I've seen, at least one connected these two players, just without Ott's name.