Posted By:
MichaelVery interesting thread.....Long time lurker (all the way back tot he days of the full count board).
It would be interesting if we could track the T206 miscuts that depict a player's name on the top of the card that is different from the player that is actually depicted on the card. Perhaps there is a correlation between this and a particular series (given that we all know the cards were issued in different series).
Perhaps, when the cards were first printed, they were layed out with the same player along the columns, and as the printing process was refined, or maybe at the behest of the ATC (maybe to cut costs, perhaps the card production was rathceted down towards the end of the run??), the later series' were printed with different players along the columns and rows(much like the sheets of today). A reduced print run could certainly be plausible....The ATC wishes to save some $$$, but they still want to include a plethora of players, so they change the layout of the sheets.
Of cousre, this is all blind speculation on my part...I have no hard evidence to back any of this up. A little food for thought.