Modifications to Vintage Baseball Card Sets' Year(s) of Issue

[bcbgcbrcb]

I'm probably being a spoil sport here, but after the first page of posts in this thread, the original topic seems to have been lost (outside of a couple of intermitent posts by Ted Z. and a couple of others) and the focus has turned to T206 and related sets and whether they should be combined or separate issues. I'm afraid that my efforts to bring this topic to the forefront are just going to fall by the wayside as this thread loses interest and we will really be no further along towards correcting the catalogues or grading company labels. Does anyone have any good suggestions on how we could get this subject moving forward with real results?

[rhettyeakley]

Phil I'm sorry you feel like your thread was hijacked. However if you look at the posts it seems like the T215-1 set should be dated a 1912 set so your thread did accomplish something.

[bcbgcbrcb]

I think the real test to seeing whether this thread accomplished anything is if this new T-card date information actually makes it into the card catalogues in the near future as well as grading company databases. That is my whole point, we have many of these threads that uncover a wealth of knowledge and discovery but once the thread ends, all is forgotten and the info never makes it out to the masses.

[barrysloate]

Phil- in order to get the grading services and baseball card catalogs to include this information and make the necessary changes, you probably would need to make a written presentation to them. It would have to be clearly documented with irrefutable evidence. I don't think that everything that transpires on this board is read that carefully and taken as gospel.

[Leon]

To get something changed by all in the hobby you might start with our very own board member, Bob Lemke (Hi Bob). I know Bob does exhaustive research, which can be slow, in order to change things in the big book and I think that is the correct method. Once it is changed in there then the grading companies will/might follow. I know SGC (and probably Beckett) look at that book for details. Beckett might look at their own book too but regardless I think you need to start with the SCD Big Book as it is the pre-war bible of today, especially since the ACC's author isn't around to change it. Just my 2 cents and trying to get back to Phil's dilemma .

[bcbgcbrcb]

Thanks, guys, now I think we are getting somewhere. If the time is taken to go back to past Net 54 threads that cover this topic for various vinatge baseball card sets, that a summary for each along with a link to the actual thread would be enough to present to Bob Lemke for consideration to updates in the SCD catalogue? It sounds like that step should come first before the grading companies would follow suit?