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Originally Posted by brianp-beme
Definitely the makers of E98 intended this card to be identified as Cy Young, due to the Cleveland team designation, a team Irv never played for. Unfortunately they chose Irv's image, either in error, or because they were rat bastards.
A similar but different case is the E93 of Collins. I believe Standard Caramel intended the card to be identified as Jimmy Collins, as the photo used was of Jimmy. Because both Eddie and Jimmy Collins were on the 1908 Philadelphia A's team, I believe in later years when this set was being catalogued an error was made in identifying it as Eddie, the player who had the better career and was undoubtedly more well known at that time.
Brian
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I believe the E98 Eddie Collins image is also Jimmy Collins.