As a 10 year old in 1960, I and all the kids in the neighborhood kept our cards by team NOT by number.
We looked at a checklist card and found a player none of us had in our team sets and wondered who he was and why he was so rare. His name on the checklist was W.S. Composite. Pronounced by us as "Compo zeet" Initials instead of a first name much like J.C. Martin of the White Sox who is also in the set. Makes sense, no?
We were all looking for the card, but no luck. One night at dinner I was telling my father about it and showed him his name on the checklist card right under all the World Series cards. He laughed and told me the card was the World Series Composite. Composite, a word none of us 10 Y.O.'s had ever heard before.
Turns out of course, all of us had the card in our "odd"pile!
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