What is the most powerful card image to you?

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Posted By: Jason L

Can I ask the collective experience here:
Did any of these PreWW2 ballplayers smile (and get caught by the camera doing so)?!?!??!
The only one that I can recall after looking at all these card scans for the past year is the CJ Cicotte that Steve M recently picked up...and that is more of a smirk.

That would be an interesting, if not almost useless, exercise: to count the number of cards depicting smiling players, and tally up the % per set, or per issuance year. I wonder what that number and the series through time would say, if anything about the social status of the players, the economic health of the US, player confidence in the overall health of their teeth, number of licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop, etc...

hmmm...