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Posted By: Tim Newcomb

Sorry I didn't see this post when it cropped up over the holidays. I won't go into huge detail here, as I don't want to anticipate all of Bob's and my material for the projected article--

but i will correct a couple of misapprehensions expressed in the post:

-- the "300 Subjects" backs appear on the cards from Series 19-24, not 22-24. There are thus 72 players that appear only with this back. There are some anomalies concerning this back and certain lower-series cards, which I'll get into later.

-- I believe all 19-24 series cards are scarce to some degree. However, it appears that possibly 15-20% of them are somewhat less scarce than the rest. The less scarce cards don't correspond neatly to any of the numerical series. We're working on a theory of reissues that accounts for this. But I don't think it's right to call any of the 19-24 groups "commons". They are all definitely short-printed cards.

Tim