Posted By:
Hal LewisTED:
Can you please clarify a bit:
The complete 1949 Leaf baseball set has 98 cards... which I presume means that they printed TWO separate sheets with 49 players on each sheet, right???
And what you are telling us is that they did NOT have a full sheet with the 1948 copyright date and a second sheet with the 1949 copyright date...
but that 33 of the 49 players on the SAME uncut sheet have the 1948 copyright date...
while the other 16 on that uncut sheet have the 1949 date on back???
I agree that this in undisputable evidence that the sheets were printed in 1949, since there is no way they would have "assumed" in 1948 that they would eventually get copyrights for those 16 players in 1949.
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What numbered players appear on that sheet??
Are the 49 players who appeared on the OTHER sheet (scarce series) all the ones who have the SP by their name in the standard catalog?
So not only did Leaf skip-number... but they only distributed the second 49 cards in the Ohio and Michigan areas.
Dirty scoundrels.