In 1981, I had a nice conversation with Del Ennis (at his Bowling Alley in the Philadelphia area). I told him that as a kid collecting 1949 BOWMAN and 1949 LEAF cards,
I was disappointed not finding a BOWMAN card of him. Del told me that he first gave LEAF the Rights to portray him in their set. Therefore, he didn't sign with BOWMAN.
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