Corey- you certainly may be correct that the Atlantics were issued in 1868, and we have nothing to prove otherwise. But it is possible that P & S issued the five cards simultaneously, as a series of five key teams of the era. The 1870 Atlantics were not a championship team, while the 1868 of course were. Now we have no proof of this either, just trying to come up with a reason why they might have done it. It's pure speculation. But we really don't know anything about how these cards originated. Everything with regard to origin we've been forced to guess.
As to the question as why the Red Stockings were issued with two different ad backs, there is no doubt they were the most popular team and the one most requested. They easily could have run out of a first printing and been forced to reissue it. With the change of seasons, they would have come up with an ad for cold weather sports.
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