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Originally Posted by Runscott
Not to further my debate with John D, but because he couldn't locate the original photo for Dots Miller, he (or someone else in the discussion?) said they thought that maybe the T206 art for some 'in action' shots was created by taking a photograph of a different player and tweaking it to look like the intended player. I still don't buy into that theory, and finally locating the Miller photo rebukes it, at least somewhat.
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I only suggested that as an idea of why we couldn't find one for Miller and it was pretty specific to him because he didn't make his debut until April 1909. Not knowing when the artwork was done for the 350 series cards, it was just a possible theory on why we couldn't find the original image. Wasn't really a discussion at the time, just throwing a guess out there.
You might not be talking about me though, because I never suggested a tweak of another players photo, I said it could be a freehand image of him. It doesn't really show his face, just looks like a generic side profile so it wasn't far-fetched before you found the original pic
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