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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

DENNIS

In my neighborhood, these cards were available in March or April of '49 and by June they were gone, replaced by the
new Bowman packs in our candy stores. This was true for us for the 1st series (49 cards) of this set.

How did we know if we had a complete run is a very good question, as these cards were skip-numbered from #1 to 159.
These cards were so plentiful, that we all had at least quadruplicates of each player, and we compared our collections,
and came to the realization that there were no more than 49 different cards.

If you lived in the Boston area, Ohio, Michigan and Illinois, you were lucky to get the 2nd series of 49 cards. My under-
standing is that they were available during the Summer/Fall of '49.

TED Z