Proposed Old Judge Reorganization

[Joe_G.]

Originally Posted by oldjudge

I think if one wanted to treat the Old Judge set like we treat current baseball sets we would subdivide the Old Judge set into the following subclasses:

Script Cards--baseball players and boxers
Short Number set-baseball players, actors and actresses, other athletes, politicians
"0" Number set--baseball players, boxers, other athletes
1888 Fa set
1888 Fb set
1889 set
1890 set

Well stated Jay, this has been discussed many times. Truth be told, there are also Fb actress cards and so on.

For those not familiar with Old Judge cards, even when subdividing N172s to this extent, there are subsets within the proposed sets such as Spotted Ties (within Script), Browns Champs (within short number), Brooklyn minis (within "0" number), and California League (within 1889). The California League subset is a good example of how very different the rarity can be within the proposed subdivided list above. So many, many ways to slice the N172 set; the best baseball card issue of all time