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Posted By: Bill Cornell

A few more things about this great set that occurred to me after my last email:

- It's commonly thought that there are 60 T222's (52 baseball, 4 track & field, 4 actors) and the other 40 were never issued. Actually, there are at least 6 silent screen actors and there may be more, although I'd be amazed if any more baseball players appear. The track & field and actors are as tough as most baseball high numbers.

- Just to pile on PSA, they don't know anything about this set. I keep seeing examples that have badly tanned backs - these were soaked, but not penalized as they deserved. I'd take a very close look at any of these before I bought one (again).

- Many of the photos date to as early as 1909. I figured this out by comparing the photos against the Marc Okkonen "Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century" book, which everyone should own. The book has flaws, but nothing else like it exists.

- Billy Orr, the 11th Phil. AL player in the set, was so bad that he would've been in T207. Nice to see him in this set.

Here's a Fatima ad of Alexander. Same photo that was used in T222.




Bill