Ye gads, what's the world coming to ... an actual post on Net54 about T207s... its been a while.
Bob M and Tim N's VCBC articles are the best general references going, even though they're 10 years old, now. Lew Lipset has a section in his encyclopedia, and various of the big books have the usual smattering. There are (or were) a couple sites run by folks on the board that had good information as well.
While that info is good, and though there isn't much more info readily available about T207, it is actually
much easier to understand than its T205/6 brethren when it comes to front/back combos. I will leave RedCross out of the discussion - they're just too rare (
and St Louis Nat'l is not known to be represented at this date anyway umm... oops ... Lowdermilk
).
As Scott (sb1) says - there are two classes of cards:
- Recruit - with Recruit (Fac 240 and 606) and Napoleon (Fac 240 only) backs; and
- Broadleaf - with Broadleaf, Cycle and two factories of Anonymous (3 and 25) backs.
There is no crossover between the two classes. The only twist to this from the backs perspective is that there are a handful (~50) Recruit cards that are known with one of the Anonymous backs (Factory 3). In all, there are 150 players + 5 variations in the Recruit class, and 50 players + 1 variation in the Broadleaf class cards... for 206 cards in the set with varying degrees of in and out for certain other print issues (wrong backs, cap color)..
All 50 Broadleaf class cards are known with all 4 possible backs. All Recruit cards are known with both factory backs. Napoleons are less common, but are widely believed to be fully covered as well.
For St Louis Natl ...
In Recruits, you'll have:
- Bresnahan
- Ellis
- Evans
- Golden
- Harmon
- Konetchy
- Oakes
- Smith (W)
- Steele
- Steinfeldt
- Wilie
- Wingo
36 cards across the 3 backs. Of those, Steele and Wingo are confirmed with the Anon 3 back, Ellis is suggested as the (as yet only hypothesized) 50th man... but that's just a suggestion, so 38 Recruit cards
In the Broadleaf class, you only have two:
Lowdermilk, not
that hard, but $$$ because of historical information. Woodburn slightly less difficult, much less $$.
That's 8 more cards for a master team set of 46.
Then you could throw in a brown-print back, and a blank back, and ... well, you can go from there.
Hope this helps. You'll find out quickly enough where you're going to have fun trying to complete this master team set in less than a decade or so...
(though it is becoming much easier - and cheaper - these days, it would seem. Prices are down on lots of T207's. Images of most are available
by team and back, if you're interested.
Best of luck to you - I'll help where I can.
--
Mike