Backs Finished! How about a 1916 M101-4/5 "Sporting News/Mendelsohn" Thread

[stutor]

Wow. Those look phenomenal together. Congratulations…I bet that took a while!!!

[oldjudge]

Great job, Greg! Are you going to work on the back varieties? For example, there are three different Gimbels backs, etc.

[boneheadandrube]

Originally Posted by oldjudge

Great job, Greg! Are you going to work on the back varieties? For example, there are three different Gimbels backs, etc.

Thanks Jay, I don't think I'm going to try for those. Tilted font and 1/8" spacing differences might qualify as "minutiae" for me and give me an excuse to pass
I think I'll be casually trying to upgrade a few instead, i.e. common-to-HOF and/or condition on a few if they ever come up.

Brian, thanks for posting some cards! I wasn't able to get any Black Sox myself!

[boneheadandrube]

I ended up with some extras in the quest also:

1916 Group-4.jpg

For those interested, the last 4 backs to complete the group were

- Herpolsheimer
- Morehouse Baking
- Ware's Basement
- Standard Biscuit

I was lucky with this search because Mall Theatre and Burgess & Nash were offered in the same auction last year. I would have thought those two would be among the last.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by boneheadandrube

Thanks Jay, I don't think I'm going to try for those. Tilted font and 1/8" spacing differences might qualify as "minutiae" for me and give me an excuse to pass
I think I'll be casually trying to upgrade a few instead, i.e. common-to-HOF and/or condition on a few if they ever come up.

Brian, thanks for posting some cards! I wasn't able to get any Black Sox myself!

Greg- C'mon, the master set of those isn't that difficult. Another 5-15 yrs and you should be able to do it!

Here is some of the set I used to own (not anymore), to show the minutiae. I think I was missing 1 of the different Everyodys...if I recall correctly.

[boneheadandrube]

Leon, looks like I ended up with that Sisler!

[oldjudge]

Leon--That was a fantastic group. Since you put that together a second Wares back has been found. I'll post an image of both later so people can see the difference.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by oldjudge

Leon--That was a fantastic group. Since you put that together a second Wares back has been found. I'll post an image of both later so people can see the difference.

Just what I would have needed, another hole to fill. Glad I am not so earnest about ALL of them anymore. I am very liesurely this time out. (and thanks to everyone showing their backs!)
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[GeoPoto]

(An aside: I am always shocked to see the blackened ball selected to be part of the (presumably) staged photograph used for Griff's cards. I am well aware that balls were precious and used well-beyond when their original shape, let alone whiteness, had long been compromised. But what continues to amaze me is that blackened balls were so normal to their way of thinking that it wouldn't have occurred to them to use a newer ball. They may even have figured using a new ball would make the picture look odd.)

I'm limited to Washington cards, so I have back-runs for individual players, but it is hard to approach all possible backs. In fact, five is my current maximum. From a type-collection standpoint, I can only muster nine different backs across all Washington players. Fortunately, my Washington collection includes Clark Griffith, who can cover five of them:

[nolemmings]

Kudos Greg, that’s a great grouping. I am fortunate to have completed the back run also, with the variations. Leon, here’s the one Everybody’s back I believe you were lacking, along with some other of my ungraded faves (the Faber has a reversed back, one of only two in the set I have seen with this feature):

[nolemmings]

Originally Posted by GeoPoto

(An aside: I am always shocked to see the blackened ball selected to be part of the (presumably) staged photograph used for Griff's cards. I am well aware that balls were precious and used well-beyond when their original shape, let alone whiteness, had long been compromised. But what continues to amaze me is that blackened balls were so normal to their way of thinking that it wouldn't have occurred to them to use a newer ball. They may even have figured using a new ball would make the picture look odd.)

I'm limited to Washington cards, so I have back-runs for individual players, but it is hard to approach all possible backs. In fact, five is my current maximum. From a type-collection standpoint, I can only muster nine different backs across all Washington players. Fortunately, my Washington collection includes Clark Griffith, who can cover five of them:

Nice group of Griffs. What struck me about his photo is that it is ten years old by the time m101-4 was issued, as was McGraw's in a similar New York N.L. dark uni (probably both taken by Burke). Mendelsohn was so intent on getting "Action" photos that he must have thought dugout shots were to be shunned whenever possible. Of course, at least one was unavoidable: