I have thought that these were made available to Rochester and Syracuse denizens by either a really remote salesman or a renegade printer. I assume they were blank backed and then printed with the appropriate ad.
The US was baseball mad back then and cards of the champs would have been very popular I would think.
REA estimates an overall pop of about 50 for T208 in their current auction. Anyone care to hazard a guess as to overall population of each flavor?
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