M114 reprints, another publication, or what

[Vintagecatcher]

I have suspected for a dozen or so years that someone has reprinted some of the Baseball Magazine Supplements.

The seller on eBay has about six...all listed under $20...size listed isn't correct and they all look to be pristine. His description seems a bit sketchy as well.

My question has always been did Baseball Magazine have multiple printings...probably unlikely.


Patrick

[chipperhank44]

Thanks Patrick, glad I'm not the only one to suspect this. I ran into the Matty on a search, then saw that the seller had several. Seems like these pop up from time to time. I had also considered the possibility of another printing by BB Mag, but the omitting their credit seems odd if that is the case

[jim]

ask what the specs are from the seller. this one should be ~12 x 21". never heard of these being reprinted. what is the link to the seller's items?
jim

[Vintagecatcher]

http://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_odkw...ement&_sacat=0

Patrick

[jim]

the size is way off on these. they "look" somewhat ok, but the size would scare me off as to being real. my gut says walk away.
jim

[chipperhank44]

Seller says 9x12, which is interesting because isn't that the size of M114s in the latter years of production?

[jim]

yes, that is my understanding on the size. these are the m113 and should be much taller.

[doug.goodman]

Hmmmmmm......

I'm curious about these, leaning towards them being some sort of reprint.

While I do know, based on multiple variations in the text & fonts on the bottom of some M113s and M114s, that Baseball Magazine DID have multiple printings of some supplements, I lean towards thinking that these are some other sort of reprint, not from Baseball Magazine.

I have a few M113/114s (847 different at the moment) and have never seen these M113 poses on M114 sized paper before. I would be quite surprised if 12 different ones popped up in seemingly perfect condition and they were in fact issued by Baseball Magazine. But, stranger things have happened. Some of these are quite scarce, how many times do you see either of the Mantle supplements? Or a Hank Aaron? The answer is very very seldom.

I have seen M113s trimmed to M114 size if the pictures are small enough (Jack Barry, Bullet Joe Bush), but most of the pictures are too large to do so, and all of these auctions are the larger pictures.

I sent the seller a question regarding the paper, let's see what the response is.

Doug


PS - the omission of the credit isn't necessarily a bad thing. Any of the M113s that I own that match this seller's pictures also have the matching lack of credits.