1948/49 Leaf Satchel Paige

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Originally Posted by tedzan

Well what do you know....an anonymous source....this sounds like "fake news" !

So, Mr. Anonymous is a big-time dealer, who says: "whenever he purchased a collection of of 49' Leafs from someone, the Paige card was always in there."
Of course Paige would most likely be in a sizeable collection of 1949 LEAF cards. Besides Babe Ruth, Paige was/is the most popular subject in this set.

So, for starters the real question is.....how many 1949 LEAF collections did this "Mr. Anonymous" purchase ? ?

OK, Alan Rosen displayed these 1949 LEAF cards from his find at the Willow Grove Show in 1989. Many of us old-timers saw them at this show back then.
Rosen had opened the wax-packs from 2 of the 4 (24-count) boxes which yielded 288 cards. There was NOT a single Paige card in that group. He sold the
other two boxes of unopened 1949 LEAF wax-packs to Jim Copeland. Upon opening those 48 waxpacks, Jim found only three Paige cards.

That's how the entire story goes, guys. The Paige card was most likely printed in the same quantities as the other 48 cards on the 49-card sheet; however,
only a few of these Paige cards were inserted into the LEAF wax-packs. For whatever reasons.


Now, here we have a character, who asks you for information. You provide the information. And what in effect is his response....."your full of crap, because
a Mr. Anonymous says otherwise."

Well, I'm NOT going to continue this "horse-crap"any longer.....END OF DISCUSSION ! !
I no longer will respond to any of his requests, questions, or remarks.


T-Rex Ted
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Yowsers!!! I wasn't expecting that one at all!

You need to calm down, sir. You are overreacting here.

The eight-page article you sent me was a fantastic read. It taught me so many things that I didn't previously know and I thank you for that.

Now I want to take a direct quote from your article:

In 1989, a "find" in Michigan of four unopened 24-count boxes of second series Leaf cards yielded about a dozen cards of just about every player. However, there were only three cards of Satchel Paige from a total population of 576 cards. Is this find representative and is the Paige card that scarce? No one really knows. (pg 36, T. Zanidakis, Old Cardboard, Issue #9, Fall 2006).

Look what you did here. You are asking the reader a question. You are encouraging the reader to go out there and to try to find out on his own. This is what good authors do.

Oh, and FYI, I just finished reading David Hornish's Topps Chewing Gum book. I actually ordered a hard copy, so that way I could write down notes as I read along. Now I got a ton of questions I want to ask him, and yes, I will challenge him too, but there is nothing wrong with that. That's what makes all of this fun, right?

Thank you again for your article