The SABR Baseball Playing cards Committee hosted a session with the writer of One Splendid Season to debate key particulars of 1912’s T202 Triplefolder set, together with its photographic methods, various participant picks, and hardest playing cards to search out right now. His guide on this set and the 1912 season is a standout instance of scholarship and storytelling inside our pastime.
Right here is the recording of the session.
References talked about embrace Phil’s look on My Baseball Historical past (Season 5, episode 3) and Andrew Aronstein’s gallery of Paul Thompson photos used on T-cards.
Phil requested for assist answering two pastime questions associated to this set!
- Why did Burdick’s American Card Catalog (ACC) assign classification numbers because it did? Whereas we all know T202’s “T” stands for Tobacco, why use T202 for these 1912 Hassan Triplefolders, a set launched after well-known siblings like T205 and T206?
- The ACC’s 1960 version accurately tallied T202 (76 heart panels and 144 finish panels), with out offering additional guidelines particulars. How far again can we hint their pastime guidelines? Who selected to record T202 playing cards by heart panel in alphabetical order and designate letters for various finish panel combos of the identical heart panel? (Burdick himself? One other early collector extra targeted on baseball?)
