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Originally Posted by PhillyFan1883
Thanks for posting Todd! Any chance you are able to share a cleaner image of the newspaper article/photo? Would be curious to see how Lajoie Card team name etc reads.. I have a Lajoie M101 no number with hands on knees pose. Maybe Lajoie is a democrat after all !!!
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Here you go Connor– partial enlargement.
The newspaper shows an abbreviated league name and spells out "base", as you can see. However, I don’t believe we can rely on the ad to depict the actual captions used on the cards that were produced. The artwork in the ad is exactly that–drawings with name and position added. In Lajoie’s case the caption is different in the ad, but that means little, since it also spells out pitcher for Alexander, which to my knowledge was never used in his m101-4/5 cards.
Your card does appear to be mislabeled and is quite possibly an early m101-5 or prototype, assuming it measures correctly and the stock is right. Very nice. It looks alot like the “card” depicted in Mendelsohn’s flyer, although that one does not use all caps or a double dash and spells the first name wrong:
I struggle to believe he sent out early versions of the entire set of cards that were unnumbered, but a promo is possible– see Successful Farming (although that uses the other Lajoie pose) and Holmes to Homes Wajo. Nice card you have there!
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