Marc,
I can answer that...When I started my research, I focused on the rarer cards as replacements for the minor league cards but when you start to look at the back matrix, it just did not really add up.
The commons that Andrew listed (including Wallace when put together with the capped version which in my opinion is one of the easiest cards in the set) fit the back pattern nicely.
Here is a theory...lets say American Litho printed 500 sheets of the commons and then substituted the minor league cards later for a smaller run of 100 sheets. That would account for the relative ease of some and toughness of others.
The only thing I have not done yet is go through the cards Andrew listed and looked at the stats and write-ups yet to try to get a better handle on the dates of issue.
The minor leaguers were almost certainly issued in early 1912 just by reading the backs and looking at the times when the players played for the teams listed (not to mention the design change).
Joshua
Last edited by Wite3; 08-22-2013 at 07:56 AM.
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