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[Exhibitman]

A couple of interesting (at least to me ) stories:

I bought this Pebble Beach O'Doul at the 2006 National. The back has a name ___ Dempsey on it. Turns out it used to belong to PCL legend and brief MLB player Con Dempsey, who got it as a kid in San Francisco! So I got an O'doul PB card autographed by Con Dempsey too.



Bob Steele was a cowboy movie star in the 1920s and 1930s. Fast-forward 30 years and he is playing Duffy on F Troop:



This uncut sheet of Exhibit cards is proof positive that the whole split between the "Salutation" cards and the postwar cards is nonsense. ESCO recycled the images from the Salutations set for as long as the player kept playing. This one is clearly from 1960 at the earliest because it shows Rocky Colavito with Detroit, where he went after the 1959 season in a trade for Harvey Kueen, and next to Rocky is Ted Williams' Salutations card that supposedly was printed from 1939-47.