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Old 10-10-2014, 02:46 PM
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Holy crap, I can't believe a card maker would really write that. The poor guy's family must have been so excited about his being on a card...until they read the back. Sy Berger once said in an interview that the hardest part of his job was trying to find something nice to say about a lousy player for a card back: "What can you say -- 'This guy stinks'?" Apparently, at Gum, Inc., the answer was "yes." I can't see that on the back of my Gumpert card; it has this instead:

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