Major Find of Rare Al Demaree Die Cuts (R304) in Wisconsin

 

Father’s cards are under the bed

 

Plus an interview with Marshall S. Leaf concerning the history of Leaf Gum and the R304s

By

George Vrechek

 

 

In 2008 a hard-working Wisconsin man looked under a bed and found 109 of the rarest baseball cards ever issued. I’ll call the man “Ken.” The cards are known in the hobby as the 1934 R304 Al Demaree Die-Cuts by Dietz Gum Co. of Chicago. I once described these cards as coming around about as often as eclipses. Before everyone starts looking under their beds, there is a bit more to the story including why this obscure set is so interesting.

 

Ken has never been much of a collector and certainly had never heard of the Al Demaree Die-Cuts. However Ken’s dad collected cards as a kid in the 1930s. Ken’s dad was born in 1921 and grew up in Dixon, Illinois. He was always interested in sports, particularly the Chicago White Soxs. He saved shoeboxes of Goudeys and other memorabilia. Ken’s parents moved to Ken’s current home in Wisconsin in the late 1940s. Unfortunately, Ken’s parents divorced and his mother pitched the shoeboxes to the dismay of Ken’s dad. When Ken was still a teenager, his dad told him the cards he saved would be his and, it would be great if Ken could do something with them someday. Ken assumed the memorabilia his dad referred to had been destroyed. It had, except for one box that survived. More than a year after his father’s death, with urging from a friend, Ken decided to go through the box his father had left him. It had been under his father’s bed for over 40 years.

 The Box

The box under the bed contained scrapbook-type clippings, old sports magazines, Goudeys (1935 puzzle cards that had been neatly cut into quarters), a few wide and fine pen premiums and even a few 1963s, presumably from a pack purchase at the time. The magazines were from the Sporting News, Great Sports Heroes, Baseball Magazine and Baseball Digest – most from the mid-1930s. Ken found four gems in the box, all apparently surviving because of their unusual size: all four of the rare 1934 Goudey Premiums, roughly 5˝ by 9 inch cards of the World Champion Giants, the N.L. and A.L. All Stars, and a guy named Ruth. Ken also found plenty of odd-looking, large cut-outs of baseball players, all laying flat and not folded as designed to form stand-up cards. These unusual 6.5 inches high and 1.7 inches wide cards didn’t neatly fit into the shoeboxes of Goudeys tossed by Ken’s mother. The cards were in great condition.

 1934 Al Demaree Die-Cuts

Ken later learned the cards were the 1934 Al Demaree Die-Cuts, an impossible issue, never entirely checklisted, thought to include up to 168 cards. The cards are a series of generic drawings with head photos superimposed. Poses are primarily fielding positions. Uniforms are colored red or blue. The base of the card includes the player’s full name and birthplace and was meant to be folded upward to form a base with a tab that would fit into a small semi-circular flap at the player’s midsection. The card stock is more like heavy paper than cardboard.

 

Ken counted 109 cards in the box which included 87 singles and 22 duplicates. Of the singles, 30 of the cards are not listed in the current SCD Standard Catalog of Baseball Cards. Three of Ken’s cards have numbers that were previously unknown although the players were listed (missing the tabs). The unlisted cards found in the box include Greenberg, Sewell, Herman, Goslin, Averell, Cronin, Foxx, two different cards each of West and Hafey, and three umpires. In addition to these previously unlisted cards, the find includes HOFers Al Simmons, Luke Appling, Charlie Gehringer, Dizzy Dean, Pie Traynor, Paul Waner, and umpire Bill Klem. Babe and Lou didn’t make it to the box.

 

Ken picked out three cards and had them graded by PSA. The previously unknown Goose Goslin #30 came back a PSA 5 (excellent), the previously unknown #159 Babe Herman graded PSA 4 (VG-Ex), and #145 Traynor graded PSA 2 (good). Ken’s feeling is that the bulk of the cards are at least as good as the Goslin or Herman cards. The condition of the cards was certainly better than I would expect for an issue which, we will learn, was designed to be marched around in a baseball board game.

 

Ken Calls

Ken found me through the internet based on two articles I had written for SCD. One story reported my visit to view Jefferson Burdick’s 306,353-card collection housed at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. Prior to my visit, I researched some of the scarce baseball issues to check against what Burdick had in his collection. R304 Al Demaree Die-Cuts were on my list. I had never even seen an Al Demaree Die-Cut card. While Burdick (the father of card collecting and originator of the nomenclature system) never claimed to have collected everything, he did have complete sets of most of the issues from the 1930s, but only six of the R304s.

 

My next article mentioning the R304s was about collecting sets from the 1930s. My research showed that while the completed listings on ebay included 3,676 of the 1933 Goudeys, there were only two listings for the R304s in the same period, although a handful more have popped up on pricier auctions outside ebay. I included the Al Demarees in the category of impossible sets to collect. A recent on-line poll also included the Al Demarees in the impossible category. I checked with a few very experienced vintage dealers who had never bought or sold an R304.

Hobby History References

Burdick’s bi-monthly Card Collector’s Bulletin didn’t mention the existence of the set until April 1941 as set #536, Baseball Cutouts, Al Demaree with a value of 2 cents each. Burdick’s 1946 American Card Catalog listed the issue with a new name, R304, without a known number of cards in the set. Burt Sugar’s The Sports Collectors Bible from the 1970s listed 14 known R304s with a value of $25-35 each (versus $2-$3 each for 1952 Topps commons at the time). Most price guides in the 1980s didn’t bother listing the R304s because of their scarcity. A 1989 The Trader Speaks article described the set and listed 70 known cards with recent discoveries of Ruth and Gehrig. The 1997 SCD Catalog listed the set with 83 known cards, the highest card number being #167. The 2008 SCD Catalog brought the number of known cards up to 120. Thanks to Ken the number of known cards is now 150.

 

Dietz Gum?

What do we know about who issued these cards and why they are so scarce? There are many candy companies in Chicago but, as a Chicagoan, I had never heard of Dietz Gum. Researching businesses can be challenging, if a company is not publicly traded and has gone out of business. Many companies try to keep a low profile even if they are successful. A trip to the main Chicago Public Library led me to annual reports filed by corporations in Illinois. I found Dietz Gum Co. of Chicago listed in 1934 at 1732 W. Austin Ave, Chicago. But wait a minute; I was pretty sure there was no such address. Austin is a boulevard and it runs north and south. Corporate officers included Sam Jaffe and Sol Leaf. “Leaf” was an interesting name. Could it be the very same “Leaf” as in Leaf Gum? I turned over a few more “leaves” and found that Overland Candy (R301 issuer) was also listed as a corporation owned by Sol Leaf and at 1732 W. Austin. I looked further and found both companies had been at the same address in 1928 as well but by 1942 the address was 1732 W. Hubbard. That made sense. There is a Hubbard Street in Chicago; they changed the name of the street.

 1732 W. Hubbard

I visited 1732 W. Hubbard in the hope of finding some Al Demaree Die-Cuts still laying around in the trash (not really). The 3-story manufacturing building appeared to have been built before 1920. The building now houses architects, web designers, and photographers, but no one making gum or baseball cards. I talked to a few tenants and the current young owner of the building and soon found that I knew more about the building’s history than they did. I later learned that not only was gum and candy made there but probably baseball cards as well.

 

1732 W. Hubbard, Chicago – home of Dietz Gum and the R304s

 

 Back to the Library

Now I was looking for “Leaf” and not “Dietz” to get more information on this issue. Back in the library I found that by 1947 both Overland and Dietz’s names disappear and are replaced by Leaf Brands, Inc. Sol Leaf was the founder of Leaf Gum! A Chicago Tribune article from 1951 stated that the Leaf Companies employed 1,500 people and were producing 5 million pieces of candy and bubble gum in five Chicago plants every day. According to the Tribune, Sol Leaf “came to Chicago in 1921 from New York City where he had manufactured candy on a small scale. He started (in Chicago) with three employees and his brother, Harry, joined him in 1924…Leaf’s son Marshall S. Leaf was vice president.” Sol Leaf’s 1972 obituary stated that he had retired from the business years earlier and that his son, Marshall S. Leaf, had taken over.

 An Interview with Marshall S. Leaf

An hour later I found the 86 year-old Marshall S. Leaf still very much alive and well and living a few blocks from me in Chicago. He graciously took my phone call. Marshall was 12 years old in 1934 when the Al Demaree cards were issued. He had no idea what I was talking about using the hobby lingo of R304s and Al Demaree Die Cuts. Even the name Dietz Gum was initially a bit vague. I should have used the name “Ball Players in Action Chewing Gum Standups” which would have made more sense. It was the name on the scarce gum card wrapper that I found later.

 

Over the next hour of our conversation, I learned about Sol and Marshall Leaf and Leaf Gum. Marshall Leaf said that his father “would use every name for his business other than ‘Leaf.’ The principal entity was called Overland Candy and the name Dietz came from one of the foremen, Joe Dietz, who had no ownership at all in the business. The companies were all in the same building with the same owner – Sol Leaf.” Other names used were Chicago Biscuit Company and Leaf Machinery. Only the names were different. I recall that until the 1960s it was advantageous for businesses to operate under different corporate entities that would be entitled to lower tax rates on the first portion of their earned income. (SCD’s CPA/collector readership will enjoy rereading Section 1561 of the IRS Code.)

 Cards Made the Gum Look Better

Sol Leaf had an eye as to what sold and how to make a profit, according to Marshall. Goudey and others were issuing cards with gum. Sol Leaf thought it a good idea as well. The slab of gum needed to be wrapped and the package needed some shape – perhaps bigger than the actual gum. You could put a piece of cardboard in the package, but why not put something on the cardboard? Ironically 1732 W. Hubbard had been a cardboard box manufacturing plant prior to Sol Leaf’s purchase. Any subject was a possibility and no one was too concerned about getting permission to use someone’s image. Marshall said that his dad would dream up ideas while driving to work.

 

Marshall Leaf was more of a sports fan than his father and closer in age to the company’s typical consumer. According to Marshall, his father “didn’t really have much interest in sports. He never even attended a baseball game” although he lived four blocks from Wrigley Field. Marshall provided input to his dad about the Al Demaree baseball issue listing players from the local teams. Because 29 of the 30 Cubs, White Soxs, and Cardinals in the set have now been checklisted, it is possible that these players were issued in greater quantities. The Trader Speaks article of 1989 had a similar speculation.

 Numbers

Marshall remembered that they would intentionally skip numbers to get kids to try to collect the set. This was apparent with the 1948-9 Leaf issues. While Marshall couldn’t remember specifically whether the Al Demaree issue was skip-numbered, he said that it was entirely possible. I told Marshall that some of the numbers had more than one player and the same player would appear with different poses. He said that all made sense as well. The set has at least three numbers (known so far) with two different players sharing the same number: 102 for both Koenig and Lombardi, 133 for Shulmerich and Moore, and 155 for Foxx and Jurges. Several players appear with different poses: Simmons, Cochrane, Martin, Traynor, and Klein.  Included in Ken’s find are two new cards of Hafey (105 and 109) and West (44 and 47).

 The Game Board

The cards were meant to be used with a game board that was obtained from candy dealers who were to give out boards in exchange for 10 wrappers. At least one of these boards has survived, and an image was posted recently on the Net54 website. There are spaces for the standup cardboard players at each of the 9 positions plus a spot for a batter and umpires. The game could be played by rolling dice or listening to a game on the radio and moving players around on the board. All together this was a rather elaborate first effort for Sol Leaf: die-cut cards, tabs, wrapper redemption, playing board, and even umpires.

Glasser Article

Ken found a 1998 article in VCBC by Gerald Glasser which shed further light on the cards, wrappers and game board. A light bulb went off when I saw the game board, read the article, and added in the cards from Ken’s find. My thought is that this issue is far from being like the skip-numbered 1948 and 1949 Leafs remembered by Marshall Leaf. This issue was not cutoff in midstream by possible litigation. Nine position players are in the set for each team (nobody needed a relief pitcher in those days). The best hitter on each team was also shown in a batting pose to be in the batter’s box when playing the game. Sixteen teams had 10 cards each covering 9 different players. You needed four umpires to officiate a game, four from each league, 168 cards in total.

 The Still Missing Players

Everything about this issue started to make sense. Somewhere out there are another 18 cards that include Ruth, Dickey, Manush, Terry, two more umpires and 12 others. My hunch is based on figuring out what positions are missing from each team and who played the missing positions in 1933 and 1934 per the Baseball Almanac. I think there are 168 cards in the set (if one could ever be assembled). The set is numbered 1 to 168 but at least 3 numbers are missing and 3 other numbers are double-printed with 2 different players. I also think Al Demaree himself came up with the numbering and lineups, although the Leaf boys encouraged the missing number idea that Goudey had used the year before. The players chosen seem to be very accurate as to who would likely be in each team’s starting lineup and who was the best hitter. One stretch was including rookie Hawaiian Prince Oana as a Phillie outfielder. Oana lasted the first month of the 1934 season before returning to the minors for 9 more years. His card though has remained on many wantlists. The number 4 card in the set is Ruth in a batting pose, discovered a few years ago. There has to be another Ruth with a glove to play right field and the Yankees had to have a catcher. Bill Dickey and Babe Ruth are in another oversized shoe box someplace in the world, probably near a cornfield like in Field of Dreams!  Their card numbers will be 2 and 8. (See the accompanying chart showing previously known R304s, new R304s from this find, and the author’s ideas of the identity of still missing cards.)

 Pitcher and Artist Al Demaree

Marshall remembered his father bought a small printer, and his company would print the cards very inexpensively in-house. Die cutting would have also likely been done in-house. Marshall was not familiar with the artist, Chicagoan Al Demaree.  Al Demaree, pitcher and artist

 

Back in the days when ballplayers needed off-season jobs, Al Demaree seemed to be pretty well equipped. He grew up in Chicago and took classes at the Art Institute of Chicago. At age 16 he started making money by doing sketches. He later enjoyed an 8-year major league career as a pitcher primarily with the Giants and Cubs. (Why does the set list the first National League team as the Giants  #81-90 and the last numbers 151-160 are the Cubs? Did Demaree enjoy his time with the Giants more than the Cubs or was he saving the best for last?) His lifetime record was 80 wins and 72 losses, and he started and lost a game in the 1913 World Series.

Demaree bumped around minor league and semi-pro ball for a number of years after finishing his major league career in 1919. In 1922 he was suspended by Commissioner Landis (never a good sign) as the then manager of Portland in the PCL. After his playing career was over, he started working as a cartoonist. He drew the illustrations in the Rube Appleberry comic strip in the mid 1930s as well as illustrations for The Sporting News. Living in Chicago, it was easy to see how he would have been contacted to draw the R304 issue. His art work was also used in another Chicago candy-maker’s card issue, R332 1935 Schutter - Johnson, which is almost as obscure as the R304s. His next significant mention in the local papers was unfortunately in 1939 when he was jailed for two weeks for being unable to pay his room rent at the Sherman Hotel in Chicago. He owed $47.22. They didn’t mess around in the Depression. He came back though and continued his baseball card art work with the 1947 Signal Oil issues. He died in California in 1962.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Gum Gets Tossed

Marshall Leaf pointed out to his father that the kids were really collecting the cards and throwing the gum away. His father then tried issuing cards without the gum. Marshall mentioned the issue of U.S. Presidents by his father. There were others as well. The American Card Catalog listed the following issues attributable to either Overland or Dietz: R118 Presidents, R162 Walt Disney pictures, R175 WWII Colored Photos and R182 Magic Fortune Cards. There were probably others as well that wound up in the unknown or anonymous categories. Marshall didn’t think he had bothered to keep any of the Al Demaree Die-Cuts. I told him about the find of cards in Wisconsin. It brought back good memories to Mr. Marshall Leaf, a real gentleman.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Al Demaree and his artwork were featured on the front page of the Chicago Tribune Sports Section September 27, 1914

 Other Baseball Issues by Leaf

The 1934 R304 issue turned out to be the first, and for many years only, baseball card issue by Sol Leaf. Marshall Leaf surmised that the effort was not particularly profitable and there was no reason to try it again the next year in the middle of the Depression. The company did use ball player images though on their candy wrappers in 1936. This “issue” is known as the R301 Overland Candy Co. of 1936 with 57 known wrappers including Foxx, Gehrig, and Greenberg.

 

By the late 1940s the Leaf name was used and they started issuing baseball cards again as well as football cards (sets that now list at about $100K in near mint). Marshall didn’t remember that they did anything to gain the rights to the players’ images then either. They eventually let Bowman and Topps have the card market. The Leaf and Topps people knew each other and were respectful competitors. The 1960 American Card Catalog stated the “post World War II period began with three major card publishers: Leaf Gum of Chicago, Bowman of Philadelphia, and Topps of Brooklyn. Leaf discontinued card issues in 1950 after a legal dispute with Bowman over baseball player photo rights.” Leaf did come back again with another one-year wonder: the 1960 Leaf issue, although “Leaf” is not mentioned on the cards. They are attributed to “Sports Novelties, Inc., Chicago.”

 

Leaf Brands continued to grow into a very significant company and was sold in 1983. Leaf eventually became part of Hershey Foods. By 1996 the separate identity of the Leaf operations disappeared entirely into Hershey’s. However the trading card name “Leaf” lived on with Donruss/Pinnacle again starting in 1985 and into the 21st Century.

 Ken’s Cards

Ken has this incredible find of R304 Al Demaree cards and the Goudey premiums put away in a safe deposit box for now. He has researched the cards and the prices realized for other R304s. As previously described, he had three of the cards graded and they came back PSA 5, PSA4, and PSA2. It would be hard to imagine that there is anyone else in the world with 109 R304s. He has made no commitment to sell the cards yet and will weigh his options and consider any offers. His father would be happy to know that Ken will be able to “do something” with the cards. Our thanks to Ken for sharing this information with the hobby and filling in most of the blanks as to this interesting set. Ken can be reached at: camino34@ymail.com.

 

 

George Vrechek is a freelance contributor to SCD and can be contacted at vrechek@ameritech.net

A big OBC thank you to Sports Collectors Digest (SCD) for allowing us to reprint George's article here on the OBC site!

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Al Demaree was also the artist for the obscure Schutter- Johnson issue of 1935 R332

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“The box” had 4 cards of Al Blaeholder – perhaps more than in the rest of the world?

 

Billy Herman standing and two of the unlisted Hermans throwing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Two more unlisted cards of West batting and throwing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A wrapper from the R303 issue “Ball Players in Action Chewing Gum” from a 1989 The Trader Speaks article

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Game Board

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

1934 Al Demaree Die-Cuts - Listing of Known Cards and Assumptions regarding others - George Vrechek

 

 

 

 

 

 

Card #

# Cards in Find

Team

Last name

Position

Comment

1

1

YANKS

LARY

3B

Previously unlisted card included in the find

2

 

YANKS

Ruth

rf

Author's opinion as to missing card

3

 

YANKS

COMBS

of

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

4

 

YANKS

RUTH

BATTER

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

5

 

YANKS

BYRD

of

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

6

 

YANKS

LAZZERI

2b

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

7

 

YANKS

CROSETTI

SS

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

8

 

YANKS

Dickey

c

Author's opinion as to missing card

9

 

YANKS

GEHRIG

1B

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

10

 

YANKS

GOMEZ

P

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

11

1

WHITE SOXS

HAAS

CF

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

12

1

WHITE SOXS

SWENSON

RF

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

13

2

WHITE SOXS

SHEA

C

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

14

1

WHITE SOXS

SIMMONS

LF

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

15

2

WHITE SOXS

HAYES

2B

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

16

1

WHITE SOXS

SIMMONS

BATTER

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

17

 

WHITE SOXS

DYKES

3B

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

18

1

WHITE SOXS

APPLING

SS

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

19

2

WHITE SOXS

LYONS

P

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

20

1

WHITE SOXS

KRESS

1B

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

21

2

TIGERS

WALKER

RF

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

22

1

TIGERS

GEHRINGER

2B

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

23

1

TIGERS

COCHRANE

C

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

24

1

TIGERS

COCHRANE

BATTER

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

25

 

TIGERS

FOX

of

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

26

2

TIGERS

MARBERRY

P

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

27

 

TIGERS

Rogell

ss

Author's opinion as to missing card

28

 

TIGERS

OWEN

3b

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

29

1

TIGERS

GREENBERG

1B

Previously unlisted card included in the find

30

3

TIGERS

GOSLIN

LF

Previously unlisted card included in the find, PSA5

31

1

INDIANS

AVERELL

CF

Previously unlisted card included in the find

32

1

INDIANS

PLYTLAK

C

Previously unlisted card included in the find

33

1

INDIANS

KAMM

3B

Listed in Catalog but number unknown until find

34

1

INDIANS

BURNETT

SS

Previously unlisted card included in the find

35

 

INDIANS

VOSMIK

BATTER

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

36

1

INDIANS

PORTER

RF

Previously unlisted card included in the find

37

 

INDIANS

Hale

2b

Author's opinion as to missing card

38

1

INDIANS

BOSS

1B

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

39

1

INDIANS

VOSMIK

LF

Previously unlisted card included in the find

40

 

INDIANS

Porter

of

Author's opinion as to missing card

41

1

BROWNS

BURNS

1B

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

42

1

BROWNS

GRUBE

C

Previously unlisted card included in the find

43

1

BROWNS

MELLILO

2B

Previously unlisted card included in the find

44

1

BROWNS

WEST

BATTER

Previously unlisted card included in the find

45

1

BROWNS

PEPPER

LF

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

46

1

BROWNS

CAMPBELL

RF

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

47

2

BROWNS

WEST

CF

Previously unlisted card included in the find

48

2

BROWNS

SCHAREIN

SS

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

49

4

BROWNS

BLAEHOLDER

P

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

50

 

BROWNS

HORNSBY

3b

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

51

1

A'S

MCNAIR

2B

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

52

 

A'S

JOHNSON

of

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog, number still unknown

53

 

A'S

HIGGINS

3b

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog, number still unknown

54

 

A'S

FOXX

BATTER

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

55

 

 

No Card

 

Author's opinion as to missing card

56

 

A'S

WILLIAMS

ss

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

57

 

A'S

FINNEY

LF

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

58

 

A'S

Kramer or Coleman

of

Author's opinion as to missing card

59

 

A'S

Berry

c

Author's opinion as to missing card

60

1

A'S

MAHAFFEY

P

Listed in Catalog but number unknown until find

61

1

SENATORS

BLUEGE

3B

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

62

1

SENATORS

SEWELL

C

Previously unlisted card included in the find

63

 

SENATORS

STONE

of

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

64

 

SENATORS

CRONIN

ss

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

65

1

SENATORS

CRONIN

BATTER

Previously unlisted card included in the find

66

1

SENATORS

MYER

2B

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

67

 

SENATORS

WHITEHILL

p

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

68

3

SENATORS

SCHULTE

CF

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

69

 

SENATORS

Manush

of

Author's opinion as to missing card

70

1

SENATORS

KUEHL

1B

Previously unlisted card included in the find

71

1

RED SOXS

MORGAN

1B

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

72

 

RED SOXS

Farrell

batter

Author's opinion as to missing card

73

1

RED SOXS

FARRELL

C

Previously unlisted card included in the find

74

 

RED SOXS

REYNOLDS

of

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

75

 

RED SOXS

Johnson

of

Author's opinion as to missing card

76

 

RED SOXS

CISSELL

ss

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

77

1

RED SOXS

HODAPP

3B

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

78

 

RED SOXS

COOKE

of

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

79

1

RED SOXS

GROVE

P

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

80

 

RED SOXS

BISHOP

2b

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

81

 

GIANTS

CTITZ

2b

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

82

 

GIANTS

MANCUSO

c

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

83

 

GIANTS

DAVIS

CF

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

84

 

GIANTS

RYAN

ss

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

85

 

GIANTS

Moore

of

Author's opinion as to missing card

86

1

GIANTS

JACKSON

3B

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

87

 

GIANTS

OTT

RF

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

88

 

GIANTS

Terry

batter

Author's opinion as to missing card

89

 

GIANTS

TERRY

1B

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

90

 

GIANTS

HUBBELL

P

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

91

 

DODGERS

CUCCINELLO

2b

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

92

 

DODGERS

LOPEZ

c

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

93

 

DODGERS

Stripp

3b

Author's opinion as to missing card

94

 

DODGERS

FREDERICK

BATTER

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

95

1

DODGERS

WRIGHT

SS

Previously unlisted card included in the find

96

 

DODGERS

WILSON

of

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

97

 

DODGERS

TAYLOR

of

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

98

 

DODGERS

MUNGO

p

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

99

1

DODGERS

FREDERICK

LF

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

100

 

DODGERS

LESLIE

1b

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

101

 

REDS

ADAMS

ss

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

102A

 

REDS

KOENIG

3b

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

102B

2

REDS

LOMBARDI

C

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

103

 

REDS

Rice, Moore or Poole

of

Author's opinion as to missing card

104

1

REDS

PIET

2B

Previously unlisted card included in the find

105

1

REDS

HAFEY

BATTER

Previously unlisted card included in the find

106

 

 

No Card

 

Author's opinion as to missing card

107

1

REDS

JOHNSON

P

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

108

 

REDS

BOTTOMLEY

1b

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

109

1

REDS

HAFEY

CF

Previously unlisted card included in the find

110

 

REDS

COMOROSKY

of

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

111

 

PHILLIES

BARTELL

ss

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

112

 

PHILLIES

HENDRICK

of

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

113

 

PHILLIES

Davis or Todd

c

Author's opinion as to missing card

114

1

PHILLIES

KNOTHE

3B

Previously unlisted card included in the find

115

1

PHILLIES

HURST

BATTER

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

116

 

 

No Card

 

Author's opinion as to missing card

117

 

PHILLIES

OANA

of

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

118

2

PHILLIES

HOLLEY

P

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

119

 

PHILLIES

Warner

2b

Author's opinion as to missing card

120

 

PHILLIES

HURST

1b

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

121

1

CARDINALS

DAVIS

C

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

122

 

CARDINALS

WATKINS

RF

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

123

2

CARDINALS

FRISCH

2B

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

124

 

CARDINALS

MARTIN

BATTER

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

125

1

CARDINALS

COLLINS

1B

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

126

2

CARDINALS

DEAN

P

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

127

1

CARDINALS

MARTIN

3B

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

128

1

CARDINALS

MEDWICK

LF

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

129

 

CARDINALS

DUROCHER

SS

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

130

1

CARDINALS

ORSATI

CF

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

131

1

BRAVES

JORDAN

1B

Listed in Catalog but number unknown until find

132

1

BRAVES

HOGAN

C

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

133A

1

PHILLIES

SHULMERICH

LF

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

133B

 

BRAVES

MOORE

rf

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

134

1

BRAVES

URBANSKI

SS

Previously unlisted card included in the find

135

 

BRAVES

BERGER

BATTER

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

136

 

BRAVES

WHITNEY

3b

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

137

 

BRAVES

BERGER

CF

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

138

 

BRAVES

Lee

of

Author's opinion as to missing card

139

 

BRAVES

MARANVILLE

2b

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

140

 

BRAVES

CANTWELL

p

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

141

1

PIRATES

SUHR

1B

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

142

 

PIRATES

GRACE

c

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

143

1

PIRATES

LINDSTROM

LF

Previously unlisted card included in the find

144

1

PIRATES

VAUGHAN

SS

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

145

2

PIRATES

TRAYNOR

BATTER

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog, PSA2

146

 

PIRATES

THEVENOW

2b

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

147

 

PIRATES

LLOYD WANER

cf

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

148

1

PIRATES

PAUL WANER

RF

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

149

1

PIRATES

TRAYNOR

3B

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

150

1

PIRATES

FRENCH

P

Previously unlisted card included in the find

151

 

CUBS

CUYLER

cf

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

152

1

CUBS

HARTNETT

C

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

153

 

CUBS

KLEIN

lf

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

154

1

CUBS

KLEIN

BATTER

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

155A

 

CUBS

JURGES

ss

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

155B

1

A'S

FOXX

1B

Previously unlisted card included in the find

156

2

CUBS

ENGLISH

3B

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

157

1

CUBS

WARNEKE

P

Previously unlisted card, also found recently by others

158

1

CUBS

BILLY HERMAN

2B

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

159

2

CUBS

BABE HERMAN

RF

Previously unlisted card included in the find, PSA4

160

2

CUBS

GRIMM

1b

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

161

1

UMPIRE

RIGLER

NL

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

162

1

UMPIRE

KLEM

NL

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

163

1

UMPIRE

PFIRMAN

NL

Previously unlisted card included in the find

164

 

UMPIRE

AL Umpire

al

Author's opinion as to missing card

165

1

UMPIRE

DINEEN

AL

Previously unlisted card included in the find

166

1

UMPIRE

MORAN

NL

Previously unlisted card included in the find

167

 

UMPIRE

HILDEBRAND

AL

Listed in SCD 2009 Catalog

168

 

UMPIRE

AL Umpire

al

Author's opinion as to missing card

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Legend

 

 

 

 

 

CAPS = Information verified

 

 

 

Small Letters = Assumption as to player's position on card

 

Bold in CAPS = Card from Find

 

 

 

Italics = Assumption involving still missing cards

 

 

Underlined = Card number now known

 

 

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