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Consisting of 120 cards, the W514 set is the largest
of the various "strip card" issues of its era. Issued
between 1919-1921, it is also one of the earliest and most widely
collected. The 1-3/8" X 2-1/2" cards feature color drawings
of the players and display the card number in the lower-left corner.
The set holds special interest for baseball historians because
it includes seven of the eight Chicago "Black Sox" who
were banned from baseball for their alleged role in throwing the
1919 World Series. The most famous of them, "Shoeless"
Joe Jackson, makes his only strip card appearance in this set.
Shown here is a VG example of Urban "Red" Faber.
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