(new blog post) this ordinary card just became extraordinary

What do I win? http://theherowhodidntwanttobe.blogspot.com/2012/11/what-do-i-win.html

read to see the new discovery I made about one of my cards!

time to research!

Wow. Haha unexpected score!

It's surprises like this, that make this hobby great.....

mid-morning-pre-thanksgiving-bump

Is it the one in the slab in your sig? Interesting that SCG didn't know it was a variant and didn't mark it on the slab. Maybe one of those things that not to many people are aware of?

Very cool find Brian.

It's fun watching this collection grow.

It's a pity poor Zan gets so few replies to this. Not enough love for vintage "'round these p'ahts". Nothing better than crisp vintage, and I love seeing new additions.

Nice discovery on variations. Many collectors think about the variations/errors of the 80s/90s but have little head space for the vintage variation trend.

200lbhockeyplayer said:

Very cool find Brian.

It's fun watching this collection grow.

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I knew you'd like it Mike.

Thanks bud.

Bill Menard said:

Is it the one in the slab in your sig? Interesting that SCG didn't know it was a variant and didn't mark it on the slab. Maybe one of those things that not to many people are aware of?

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I find that interesting as well... Idk if they acknowledge Play Ball variations, but I certainly will

A_Pharis said:

It's a pity poor Zan gets so few replies to this. Not enough love for vintage "'round these p'ahts". Nothing better than crisp vintage, and I love seeing new additions.

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I hope to fill some more holes in time!

From SCD Standard Catalog...

With the issue of this card set by Gum Inc., a new era
of baseball cards was born. Although the cards are blackand-
white, the photos on front are of better quality than previously
seen, and the 2-1/2" x 3-1/8" size was larger than
virtually all of the tobacco and caramel cards of the early
20th Century. Card backs feature full player names, “Joseph
Paul DiMaggio” instead of “Joe DiMaggio” and extensive biographies.
Players are listed here by their most commonly
used name. There are 161 cards in the set; card #126 was
never issued. The complete set price does not include all
back variations found in the low-numbered series. Many of
the cards between #2-115 (indicated with an asterisk) can
be found with the player name either in all capital letters, or
in both upper- and lower-case letters. Minor differences in
typography, along with variations in details of the biographical
data, or within the wording of the career summary may
be found on those cards that exist in two versions. No premium
currently attaches to either version, though the cards
with name in upper- and lower-case are somewhat scarcer.


Cool find. I really like old variations. My recent "discoveries" for my Don Zimmer collection are 1963 Hi and Low crop inset photos, and variations of his 1959 card in which the "O" in Dodgers becomes fractured. The 1959 is interesting as I've seen about 4 different variations - it looks as if a piece of debris slowly moved across the printing plate during the printing run - and the "O" can be found in different degrees of disrepair.