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Another Vault Yields 'Whales'
There is another, largely undocumented yet very accessable “vault” of player images from the last 20-25 years. The images, all shot in traditional baseball card poses during spring training when possible or during the season when necessary, belong to a dealer and collector who does business on eBay at unclemaxie.
“Max” sells newer images regularly on eBay, but his archives go well back into the late 80s and are exhaustively documented. Usually, these are only sold on direct request, not through eBay, and under copyright protection since “Max” retains ownership of the negative in most non-eBay transactions. But after several months of communication with him, he has graciously allowed me to post some “white whales” and “phantoms” that I was stunned to find he had in high quality negatives.
He agreed, in part, because these are largely obscure players that I agreed to purchase two different poses of, in order for him to allow their posting. Unclemaxie retains all copyrights to the images that follow.
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