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Posted By: Butch & Co.

Joe is of course correct. The game is indeed fairly scarce -- although a little of the game's mystique, and a bit of the reason for the generally high prices it commands at auction (average close to $500., range from $225. to $1100.+ over the past decade, for examples in nice condition) -- come from its wholly undeserved rep as "the rarest" or "among the rarest" of all tabletop baseball games. We have no idea who started that rumor, but inexpert collectors have kept it circulating on the interweb for years.

We did, however, recently run across a real rarity -- a variant edition of the game, with slightly different cover graphics, we'd never previously seen. In that edition, the photos of Burt Shotton and Preacher Roe are replaced by pics of Stan Musial and Roy Campanella.

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