What a find! 1916 M101-5 Chicago Examiner Sporting News Uncut Sheet

[nolemmings]

David, I'm not sure of your question. Of course Mendelsohn created the
m101-5 sheet--he is credited in the photo you showed, as well as on the bottom of the Examiner pages you linked--thanks for those by the way, great research!

Kevin, Cobb was listed in the second TSN ad a couple/few weeks after the one I posted. As for his exclusion from the m101-5 set, you are right, and although we may never know why, it seems plausible that it was not an oversight, but that Mendelsohn did not have his permission yet--the sets were only about 45-65 days apart in production.

[DJR]

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[nolemmings]

Actually, I took the offer to refer to a team photo on page 5, to be provided to certain shaving cream dealers identified in the following pages. There are no cards per se with the Examiner logo, at least none of which I'm aware. It also appears that they blotted out Mendelsohn's card numbers, and obviously re-aligned and re-ordered them in their newspaper spread.

[nolemmings]

Max, I'm recalling from my notes and the OC article Tim and I wrote in '08. I used Paper of Record back when it was available to everyone (for a price), and belonged to SABR briefly years ago. I should probably re-join if for no other reason than to have access to Paper of Record again.

[nolemmings]

In addition to the team photos I mentioned earlier, which were available from shaving cream dealers, the Examiner did indeed offer the 200 Mendelsohn card set known as m101-5, for a three-month subscription. This is found on p. 15 of the Wednesday 4/5/16 edition--there is likely a similar ad two days later in the edition touting the National League players.

http://digital.chipublib.org/cdm4/cl...CALE=0&DMTEXT=

Curiously, the ad lists a few of the players included in the set and names Matty--who is of course not in the set at all. It also references "Joke" Tinker.

Finally and even more curiously, when the paper lists all AL players and their last year's records in the Wednesday edition, it includes the scarce Cady and omits Mordecai Brown, and Cady's pic is among those shown. Also, in the NL paper two days later, Beals Becker is listed and his pic shown. Thus two of the scarce variations were perhaps meant to be included, but not the third--Bobby Wallace. Either there were multiple printings of the m101-5 sheet to explain why yours does not have the variations, or maybe there had been some prototypes sent by Mendelsohn used for the ad but not used at the time of distribution.

Oops, I just saw Bobby Wallace's photo in the Examiner newspaper ad as well, although he and his 1915 stats are not listed.

[DJR]

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[barrysloate]

Holy sheet! That really is amazing.

[baseballart]

Originally Posted by nolemmings

Cobb was listed in the second TSN ad a couple/few weeks after the one I posted.

Todd

Are you searching TSN through Paper of Record (available to SABR members)? I've tried to locate Mendelsohn hits but come up empty.

Thanks,

Max