SCBC Update . . . Two Rare Ruths

[Bob Lemke]

Well, Leon, I wonder if we're both right? We DO list a W-UNC 1929 playing strip card set with your Hogan, it's on Page 516, but with no picture in the 2009 edition. Barry Gordon added a Walter Hoyt, Yankees (2 of clubs) to that checklist. That makes three in that checklist, all clubs or spades, on a red background. Now we have the Gehrig and Ruth, hearts and diamonds, on a black background. That may have been the pattern for the set. The Ruth and Gehrig differ from the others, though, in that no city or team is indicated. Maybe it was figured they were so well known it was not needed?

The style of portrait and other typography seem to indicate one set for all. I guess I'd be inclined to go with your theory and list them all together.