1949 Leaf Cards Skip Numbered ?
In 1949, Leaf intended to have 168 cards in their BB set. As we all know, they issued two series of 49 cards each = 98 cards.
So, what happened to the other 70 cards ? We simply dont know. As a 10 year old kid in 1949, I collected these BB cards.
I spent many of my pennies buying Leaf's trying to put together a complete set, because we didn't have checklists and the
card's numbers were all over the place (from 1 to 168).
LEAF GUM skip-numbered these cards simply as a "marketing trick", so that us kids would keep buying cards. And, believe me,
it worked.
Goudey played a similar "trick" with their 1933 BB set when they didn't issue 21 of their Low # cards until late in the Fall of '33.
And of course, their Lajoie card was not available till 1934.
TED Z
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