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Posted By: barrysloate

I believe Milhouse got all excited about the Methuselah card. Anyway, back to the Boston garter: That image of Mathewson is well known, but I've never seen the copy to the right of it. Boston garters did a lot of display advertising; an east coast collector has an accordian with five or six panels, each picturing a different player in the same style as the Mathewson. The accordian would have stood up nicely on a store counter and would have been easily seen by a customer.