Questions for the Old Judge Experts

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

-How many known players are in the set, and how many different cards are known (including player and pose only)?

-I know the set is an impossibility because of too many 1 of 1 cards in different hands, but who would you say is the closest to a complete known set?

-How often is a new pose or variation found?

-What was the last new discovery (player not pose)? And how long ago was that?

-Is there a most commonly found card? and if so what card is it?

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Posted By: john/z28jd

Dan,I bet you can't wait for the book to come out huh?

Without giving away any content from the book,there was a new team variation discovered as late as during the proof-reading of the book. So despite a ton of research by many people,some of those answers could be open-ended because we dont know till every OJ is accounted for.

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

It's killing me John.

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Posted By: john/z28jd

Well I'll answer one question for you with a guess based on a running OJ joke. Alot of people think that California Brown is the most common OJ card because it seemed like for awhile his cards would show up once a week on ebay and any lot of decent size in auctions would have at least one of his cards.



If you ask me,the most common player is Larry Corcoran,heck,I can find 24 of his cards in my collection!

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Hmmmm....I'm curious now. I'm thinking my first question will be answered in the book, but are any of my other questions covered in the book?

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Posted By: john/z28jd

question(s) #1 are answered,question 2 isnt in the book but most people know who that person is, questions 3 and 4 are answered for the most part and question 5 is answered to the best of knowledge for hall of famers only in the book. Don't know if there is a real true answer for #5 but I'm sure it would take a surveying of all known collections to properly answer it.

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Posted By: Cat

I had the chance to talk to Bill Heitman for a long time at the Anaheim National. This topic came up. A quote from him: "nobody's ever collected a complete set of Old Judges because bobody knows what a complete set is."