[ValKehl]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

To ensure that Leon doesn't move this thread due to it not sticking to prewar card topics, let's show cards from issues that are technically very difficult to complete due to outages (short prints).

I will start with the a Red Ruffing card example from the U.S. Caramel issue, which has the extraordinarily tough Fred Lindstrom card that keeps most mere mortal collectors from completing the set.

Brian

Brian, here are 2 cards from the 1925 Holland Creameries set that are in tremendously better condition (NOT!) than the Ruffing card you showed. The SP card that is impossible to find in this 18-card set is that of shortstop Roger Peckinpaugh. I've only ever seen one example of this card, and I passed on the opportunity to purchase it rought 25 years ago because I felt the asking price was too high - perhaps my biggest hobby regret ever.

All the cards in this set are of the 1924 WS Champion Washington Senators players. The 1924 WS is considered to be one of the best ever, and many are aware that WaJo won his first WS game and his only WS championship in the 12th inning of Game 7, after pitching 4 innings of shutout relief. What few remember is that outfielder Earl McNeely knocked in the winning run (with a bad-hop single) which was scored by catcher Herold "Muddy" Ruel (who was the catcher with the Yankees when Carl Mays threw the pitch that killed Ray Chapman).