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06-14-2013, 07:03 AM
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In the days of the Negro Leagues, baseball cards were produced strictly to promote products not to be collected in and of themselves. Since segregation in America lasted throughout the Negro League days, no company would advertise only African American baseball players to promote their product to a population that was still heavily weighted toward Caucasians unless the product was being marketed strictly to African Americans, which I don't believe ever happened. Thus, no cards of Negro Leaguers were ever issued so none can ever be found, minus a real photo postcard here and there.
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06-14-2013, 07:50 AM
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Phil I would agree with your statement regarding regional or national issues, but it still seems to be odd there there never a set issued for a team. We have to remember these teams made there money barnstorming and for that they needed advertising. Think also of the Page Fence Advertising Trade Card. Also remember that a lot of these teams were supported by owners in the numbers game and in the case of Gus Greenly numbers and clubs. So these some owners did have large customer bases
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06-14-2013, 08:12 AM
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There is occasional oddball stuff out there. For example, I bought this off eBay years ago. There were two others, Bill Byrd and another that I can't remember. I suspect that they were some sort of newspaper insert but don't know.
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