Cobb back is not T206 and here's why...

[Jim VB]

I disagree also, but for a more basic reason. Unless you are the guy who invented the categorization system that coined the terminology T206, you don't have the right to change it. If, under the system he invented, it's a T206, then it's a T206. Period.

This entire process of organizing something that was issued over 100 years ago is funny, in a way. The original issuers never gave it a thought. They were just printing cards to entice people to use their products. They didn't care what player was from what set. They didn't get too involved in what color ink they were using. They just got a printer to print little pieces of cardboard with a baseball player on the front and their ad on the back. As the promotion worked well, they started to expand both the number of players and the number of brands.

Flash forward almost 30 years and a collector tries his best to establish some rhyme or reason to what they had done. He spends the next 25-30 years on the job, fine tuning it.

His body of work becomes the accepted standard over the world, for US issued cards of all types.

Now, another 40 years later, some guys on a message board think they can change that? Sorry. It's a T206 until Jefferson Burdick says it isn't.

That doesn't change anything to most collectors. I still have 520/524 and I don't need another Cobb. Now if you're a back collector, then you might feel that need. I don't know of anyone with a complete collection of fronts and back combos, but if he's around, that guy needs one also.