03-21-2023, 10:17 AM
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Leon
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Nice Ruth cards.
Cool project, btw....
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Originally Posted by Spike
I propose 1918 Zeenut as that year's choice, as it has a pair of HOFers.
https://www.tcdb.com/SetHOF.cfm/sid/212967/1918-Zeenut
"Big Head" strips are an interesting set to date. They show Babe Ruth as a batter, artfully adapted from a similar image printed by Universal Toy & Novelty Co. (catalogued W516-1) in 1920. 1919 seems his first everyday batting season.
There's a good chance Universal Toy also printed the "Big Head" set, implying a date _after_ their W516-1 image, which still showed him pitching. W516-1 says "Yanks," so it came out after his sale to New York in late Dec 1919. He more or less stopped pitching in his first NY season (1920), so W516-1 either came out in 1920 or Universal Toy missed changing that text in later years. |
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