Posted By:
Ted ZanidakisHAL
I don't know if you are aware of the late '80s "find" of 1949
Leaf BB, 2nd series (scarce), unopened packs. Anyway, 4 boxes
each containing 24 unopened packs surfaced from the Michigan
area. Each pack when opened contained 6 cards.
So....4 x 24 x 6 = 576 cards. Now, there are 49 cards in the 2nd
series, so....576 divided by 49 = approx. 12 cards of each player.
And, indeed there was between 10 - 15 cards of each of the
48 players in this series. Pretty even distribution, which is
what you would expect ? No....?
Except for the 49th card, Mr. Paige; there were only 3 cards
of him out of 576 total cards. There is no explanation for this.
We know that all 49 cards were equally printed on a 49 - card
sheet.
If this find is truly indicative of the distribution of these cards,
then the Paige card is scarcer than we think.