I wouldn't put too much stock in that ad language Jay. If they were planning to issue ten series of cards as stated, the easiest would be to issue them in numeric order, ala the other department stores. Plucking one card out of a later series just as an enticement for the first distribution is possible, but then they would have to have some system in mind to keep them straight for the next series and those thereafter, to make sure someone could acquire all 200 as advertised.
I suppose they could have identified someone as the one or greatest World Series star--Harry Hooper?-- but also could have been referencing Alexander, who won the only game for Philly. Of course, the ad could just be mistaken--remember that other advertisers touted Christy Mathewson as being in the set when he was not.
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If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other. - Ulysses S. Grant, military commander, 18th US President.
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