Question for Randall (mcgwirecom),
How reliable do you believe PSA to be on early undated tickets. The Walter Johnson 3,000th you show is from game 57. I am skeptical of this. If I go to a site like Baseball Reference and count down to the 57th home game played, I find this to have been on July 22nd, which is what they date the ticket as. To me, the scheduled date and played date are not necessarily the same date. I decided to put this to the test with the 1920 Pirates.
I have an original Cincinnati away schedule from 1920.
They were to play in Pitt
April 29, 30 - April 30 not played
May 1
June 3, 4, 5 - none of these played
July 5 (DH), 6
Oct 1,2 - Oct 1 not played, but a triple header was played on the 2nd
Games played: (
http://www.baseball-reference.com/te...e-scores.shtml)
Games played, that are not on schedule are:
DH on Sept 22
23
So with the 2 make up games played in the triple header, 5 games played on dates not listed on original schedule, thus throwing off the game count. Could you imagine sitting through a triple header in Pittsburgh in October. Interestingly, from doing this little research project, this was the last tripleheader ever played (
http://research.sabr.org/journals/last-tripleheader).
The only way, I believe, really to verify the game number is to get a 1923 schedule from a Cleveland newspaper (probably the day before Opening Day) from a Cleveland library or something. Not sure if anyone lives in Cleveland and hangs out at the library, but...