I've often wondered if Topps was mixing and matching DP or even other rows between series, i.e if there were two rows of 10 cards on a sheet from series 1 that were DP's of other rows from that series, they would strip those out in the last run and use two rows from the next series. There are hints of it in later years and that Law row does make that appear possible.
I also think 1952 is a bit of a rule breaker when it comes to uncut sheets (only major BB series with consecutive numbering) but 53 was also planned weird (5 cards skipped in the lower series sheets) and 54 had some very strange skipping around of series (a known sheet with card nos. 126-150 and 176-250 is out there). They went to 110 card sheets in '55 and I think things evened out a bit but this is really good information being developed on the 52's.
The story of the 3/4 high number sheet and an illustration of the 1954 sheet are in the third Sport Americana BB Price Guide (1981 edition).
Last edited by toppcat; 03-31-2011 at 03:51 PM.
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