1936 Goudey R322 front/back combos

[steve B]

I seem to recall seeing 108 front back combos somewhere, probably the big book. But the 2010 edition only says numerous.

Steve B

[DaveW]

I've already found about 125 different combos and I just started Monday. I'm not sure what the final tally will be, but I would have thought that somebody would have figured it out by now.

[DaveW]

While working on the front/back combos for the 1936 R322 set, I made an interesting discovery. The "plays" on the backs of the cards are identical to the plays on the backs of the 1935 R325 set (the Knot Hole League Game cards). Here is an example for card #2 in both sets:

In order, these are R325 front; R325 back; R322 back

As you can see, the text and the font is identical for both sets - they must have reused the plates.
What's also interesting is that while the front of the Knot Hole Game cards says that there are 100 cards, only 24 cards were ever issued (Goudey printed sheets of 24 cards, so this makes sense). But the 1936 set has 25 card fronts and 25 different card backs - which include all 24 of the known Knot Hole Game backs plus one new one. Why did they make 1 extra back and 1 extra front?

Note: Most publications say the R325 Knot Hole Game cards are from 1937, but that doesn't really make sense. There is a 1935 copyright on the card and the 2 teams mentioned on the front played in the 1934 World Series (Cards and Tigers).

[DaveW]

Well I've scoured every Ebay auction as well as everywhere I could think of on the web and I've found 145 different front/back combos so far. I am beginning to think that there will be 168 combos, so I'd like to ask for some help. If you collect this set, could you look through your cards and send me a list of which fronts you have with which backs? If the back has Ball/Out, Foul/Ball or Strike/Ball then please give me the first 2 words of one of the plays so I can tell which back it is. Thanks in advance! I really appreciate it. I'll be happy to share any of my data or results with anybody that is interested.
- Dave

p.s. Has anybody seen an uncut sheet of this set (or have a scan)? That would also help.

[steve B]

Only 3

Berger hit by pitch/out (pop foul)
Coscarart ball/out (1st baseman)
Coscarart out (long fly to deep right)/strike

Steve B

[DaveW]

Thanks Steve and Bill for the info. I'm up to 147 front/back combos now.
Anybody else want to contribute to the advancement of knowledge?

[brianp-beme]

Dave,

I will let you know what I have Saturday.

Brian