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Posted By: ramram

I sold the Old Judge card shown below some time ago, probably to one of you guys, and I always wondered about what I perceived as unusual about it. The card is of T.C. Nicholson of the St. Louis Whites. The line that contains his name has written: "B.8 T.C. Nicholson, 2nd B". I assumed the "B.8" referred to 8th in the batting order even though that would be odd since players, although rarely back then, would change batting order once in a while. So why put that on there?

Have you seen this before? What else might it mean?

Rob M.