Posted By:
Bruce Babcock
Tim Newcomb wrote a great article on the T207 set and the tough cards therein for VCBC (#37 & 38). Bob Marquette also wrote a great T207 piece, also in issue 37.
Why did we get Irving Lewis, Ward Miller, etc,. instead of Cobb, Wagner, & Matty? We will never know for sure. Among Tim's speculations is the thought that perhaps a larger set, even as many as 500+ cards, a la T206, was planned, but, for whatever reason, only the first 200 were issued.
While the real Lewis card back does not predict that it will be among the rarest T207 cards in the set in the next century, Tim points out the many of the cards refer to events of the first weeks of the 1912 season, which is unusual in itself.