[brianp-beme]

Hey...I am not one to shirk from unpopular issues (I imagine I am one of the few on the board that has a complete set of the widely despised W9316's) or oddball collecting angles. Here is one that I thought I would share with the board...T202 end panel collecting. Yes, just the colorful end panels that have been separated from their middle black and white centers. The complete T202 cards are definitely nice, but they have never appealed to me. But my eyes have always been drawn to those ends...they mostly share the general design and artwork of the great T205 set, but are in a slightly different scale, and still have the neat biographical write-up on the backsides. Another reason one might collect the end panels are their affordability...they have traditionally been snubbed because they are just a portion of an original card, so prices overall have been modest. There are many tough cards in the T205, especially variations, for example Eddie Collins with mouth open, that are available as an end panel at a fraction of the price.

The T202 set was issued with a wide variety of center/end panel combinations, with a lot of duplication of players and action photos. Because of this, there is a wide range of how many times a particular player end panel was issued. What is shown below is a complete list of each player featured on an end panel, and an indication of how many panels of this subject were issued. I have included a description of the pose variation in cases where the T205 set has two versions, as there are quite a few instances that only one variation was produced for the T202 end panels. 144 different end panels were issued, ranging from only one panel (just over half the 'set' at 73 examples) to the eight panels of Christy Mathewson and ten issued of Chief Meyers. 53 panels were issued twice, while 18 were issued three or more times. I think I just felt like mindlessly typing a bunch of old time baseball player names as seen on the backside of the panels, but maybe someone can find this list useful. About half of this group should, theoretically, be harder to come by. But please kids...don't go scissoring off complete T202 cards so that you can work on this 'set'. Plenty of your fellow classmates from way back when have already done all this hard work for you.

And by the way, the T202 end panels have nothing to do with T206...just thought I would get more views like when ebay sellers mention PSA in the title of a non-PSA graded card.

Leon Ames (2)
James P. Archer (6)
James Austin (2)
Frank Baker (4)
Neal Ball (1)
Edw. B. Barger - full 'B' on cap (1)
Edw. B. Barger - partial 'B' on cap (1)
John J. Barry (2)
John W. Bates (1)
Beals Becker (1)
Charles A. Bender (1)
William Bergen (3)
Robt. H. Bescher (1)
Jos. Birmingham (2)
Walter Blair (1) - not in T205 set
Roger Bresnahan - mouth closed (1)
Roger Bresnahan - mouth open (2)
Albert Bridwell (2)
Mordecai Brown (1)
Robert Byrne (1)
Howard Camnitz (1)
Wm. Carrigan (2)
Frank L. Chance (4)
Harold W. Chase - both ears show (2)
Harold W. Chase - one ear shows (2)
Edw. V. Cicotte (1)
Fred T. Clarke (4)
Tyrus Cobb (5)
Edw. T. Collins - mouth closed (2)
Edw. T. Collins - mouth open (1)
Otis Crandall - 'T' crossed (2)
Wm. Dahlen (2)
Jacob Daubert (1)
Jas. Delehanty (2)
Arthur Devlin - Giants (2)
Arthur Devlin - Rustlers (2)
Joshua Devore (1)
Chas. S. Dooin (5)
Michael Doolan (1)
Lawrence Doyle (2)
Richard J. Egan (2)
N. Elberfield (2)
Clyde Engle (2)
Louis Evans (1)
John J. Evers (2)
Arth. Fletcher (2)
Russell Ford - black cap (1)
Russell Ford - white cap (2)
Wm. A. Foxen (1)
Arthur Fromme (1)
Harry L. Gaspar (2)
George Gibson (6)
Geo. F. Graham - Cubs (1)
Edward L. Grant (1)
Dolly Gray (2)
Clark Griffith (1)
Robert Groom (2)
Robert Harmon -only left ear shows (1)
Arnold Hauser (1)
R. Hoblitzel (2)
Miller Huggins (1)
John E. Hummel (1)
Hugh Jennings (2)
Walter Johnson (2)
David Jones (2)
John Kling (5)
Jack Knight (1)
Edw. Konetchy (1)
Harry Krause (1)
Frank LaPorte (1)
W.A. Latham (1)
Thos. W. Leach (1)
A.P. Leifield (1)
Edgar Lennox (1)
John B. Lobert (2)
Bris Lord (2)
Harry D. Lord (2)
S. R. Magee (3)
Rich. Marquard (2)
C. Mathewson (8)
A. A. Mattern (1)
Geo. F. McBride (2)
A. McConnell (2)
John J. McGraw (2)
Harry McIntire (1)
Mat. McIntyre (2)
John R. McLean (4)
Fred Merkle (2)
John T. Meyers (10)
Clyde Milan (3)
John D. Miller (1)
Mich'l Mitchell (1)
Pat'k J. Moran (1)
Geo. Moriarity (2)
George J. Mullin (1)
Daniel Murphy (1)
John J. Murray (1)
Thos. J. Needham (1)
"Rebel" Oakes (1)
R. N. Oldring (2)
Chas. O'Leary (2)
Orval Overall (2)
George Paskert (1)
Fred Payne (2)
Barney Pelty (1)
Chas. Phillippe (2)
John Quinn (1)
A. L. Raymond (1)
Ed. M. Reulbach (1)
Louis Richie (1)
John A. Rowan (1)
C. N. Rucker (1)
W. D. Scanlan (1)
F. M. Schulte (1)
David Shean - Cubs (1)
Jas. T. Sheckard (1)
Fred. Snodgrass (1)
Tris Speaker (4)
Jake Stahl (1)
Oscar Stanage (3)
Hy. Steinfeldt (1)
Geo. T. Stovall (3)
Chas. R. Street (1)
George Suggs (1)
Edgar Summers (1)
Edward Sweeney (2)
Lee Tannehill (2)
Ira Thomas (2)
Joe Tinker (2)
John Titus (1)
Terrence Turner (2)
James Vaughn (2)
Charles Wagner (2)
R. J. Wallace - no cap (1)
R. J. Wallace - with cap (1)
Edward Walsh (1)
Zach D. Wheat - (1)
G. H. White (1)
Edgar Willett (1)
J. Owen Wilson (1)
George R. Wiltse - one ear (2)
Harry Wolter (4)
Joseph Wood (2) - not in T205 set
Denton T. Young (1)


Brian