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Old 04-16-2026, 11:48 PM   #37995
Merkle923
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Dexter

Dexter Press issued beautiful 12-card 5-1/2" x 7" sets of 18 of the 20 MLB teams in 1967 as premiums for completing the team set of Coke bottle cap inner linings (no Cardinals, no Angels - though a 1966 card of Paul Schaal is often misattributed to the '67 set). They also issued separate postcard sets of the Yankees and Angels. And they were in every camp but the Cardinals that spring, basically shooting everybody they could. They then made another set of regular sized postcards in 1968 and did a bunch of teams as well. Dexter did all the photography for the Angels in the '60s and much of the Dodger work in those years (plus a huge array of non-sports postcard photography) but went out of business circa 1969-1970. I did a thing on the history of Dexter photography for SABR's Baseball Cards site some years ago: https://sabrbaseballcards.blog/2016/...cards-1966-68/

A couple of years ago a large tranche of huge negatives (300 or so) turned up featuring players they printed and lots more they didn't. Some of our only known color images of guys in some uniforms (Joe Rudi with the KC A's, Bob Buhl with the Phillies - shown below) are from the Dexter shoots.

The Joe Torre glove? Ezell probably bought it. The companies didn't make a glove for you unless they were going to market it at a sporting goods store.
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