I'm not sure if this helps, but Mike Dejan's entire major league career lasted for about three weeks in the late summer of 1940. I have a snapshot of him that was taken a few days after Willard Herschberger took his life and he's wearing a mourning band on his sleeve. It seems likely the cards above were created during that time, when the Reds were in the thick of a pennant race that they would win. There were a surprising number of Reds cards, postcards and photos that were issued during that era, so it's not surprising another issue would surface ...
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