Posted By:
bruce dorskind
How many Four Base Hits and/or Just So Chewing Tobacco cards
are known of each player.
There are number of cards in both sets where there are is one card
known and several examples when only two cards are known.
To my knowledge the Pittsburgh Kalamazoo Bat Cabinet Team Card
in unique and there are only two versions of the smaller card known.
Certainly Fans Cigarettes qualifies as the rarest 20th century issue..
though my recollection is tthat three different players have been discovered.
There is some discussion of relative rarity in the early volumes of Wharton-Tigar's
World Tobacco Index.
Finally, about 12 years ago Rob Lifson authored an article in Sports Collector's
Digest on the rarest known baseball cards.
It will be interesting to see if any new issues/cards are discovered.
Bruce