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Originally Posted by topcat61
This is good stuff! Thanks for sharing, there's nothing like getting a face with the name and learning how these men shaped our hobby. There are a few others I added to my list and there may be a few more that I've forgotten:
Wirt Gammon
Edward Golden
Howard "Slim" Leheup
Sam Rosen
Jake Wise
Thanks.
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Wirt Gammon's picture sometimes appeared above his column in The Ballcard Collector in the early '70s, if there was room. The only one I can find online from work is this one, but I can look at the originals when I get home tonight and see if I can find another one. I've posted a lot of Gammon's writings going back to 1945, but most of them don't have his picture. I've been meaning to do a post about him at some point.
I don't know that I have pictures of any of the others, but in this thread I posted Lionel Carter's obituaries of Howard Leheup and Jake Wise, plus an article by Jake Wise from The Ballcard Collector:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=221758
And my post on card dealers of the 1950s had some stuff on Sam Rosen, including some of his price lists:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=233137
I'll see if I can dig up pictures of any of these guys when I get home and have a few minutes.