WWII, And Prior, Bread Cards

[Eggoman]

I know Leon has heard this story, but few others likely have...

A 1,000,000 years ago when I was a Punk-Ass kid with more smarts than money, I was asked to set up at a Coin Show as a "Guest Token Baseball Card Dealer"!

A Coin Dealer brought me a STACK of Greiner's - a complete set plus a couple of duplicates if memory serves, but it may not...

We couldn't find them in "The Big Book" as only prices for Tharp's were listed.

I tried to explain that Tharp's and York's and Sweetman's and Greiner's, and Yuengling's, etc. were all essentially the same set - just different advertisers like Tobacco cards.

But as I said, I was only a Punk-Ass kid trying to deal with a Grown Man!

Anyway, we could NOT agree on a price for Lot, but he sold me the only duplicates that he had - the McGraw and Speaker that I still have today.

I lost touch with the Coin Dealer and have NO IDEA what happened to the rest of the Greiner's cards that he had.

Nobody wanted those UGLY BLACK & WHITE cards anyway...

It was this "Near Find" that brought me to NET54....