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[BobC]

Originally Posted by DaClyde

The Tony Smith was an easy fix in S74-2, so that has been corrected.

I will submit new inaccuracy reports for the S74-1 and reference your post. I think only the Admin can delete individual cards from an existing checklist, but this will get them back in the queue.

Jason,

I don't know who, or what, you know over at TCDB, but I see the correction to the S74-1 white, ad-backed silk checklist has now been made as well, and the five non-existent player/team silks removed from their checklist. Thank you!!!

I'm assuming the fact that Bob Lemke and his SCD staff had previously noted that these five particular silks were questioned as ever existing, and the additional fact that no one had ever been able to supply even a single image of one of those five silks to be shown on the TCDB site as pretty conclusive evidence those five never existed. The correction to the S74-2 colored silk checklist properly naming Tony Smith instead of Happy Smith is much easier to prove simply by looking at the silk itself, and the Baseball Reference site pages for Tony and Happy. It is also interesting to note that this similar error was made in other TCDB set checklists, as pointed out by Todd/nolemmings, that mistakenly named Happy/Hap instead of Tony, in the PX7 Domino Discs and P2 Sweet Caporal pins checklists as well. The SCD catalogs and the Pre-War Cards site checklists for these two sets (PX7 and P2) also show the same error naming Happy/Hap Smith, instead of the correct Tony Smith. In these cases though, the error was not duplicated on the OBC site checklists.

Jason, since you're so good at getting these changes made, here's another inaccuracy (or at least an omission) I had reported to the TCDB site for the S74-1 white, ad-backed silk set as well, also involving Tony Smith. The white, ad-backed S74-1 silk set checklist on the TCDB site accurately shows a white silk for Tony Smith with the Brooklyn Superbas. However, the set also includes another white, ad-backed silk using the exact same Tony Smith image and name, but this time showing his team as the Boston Rustlers. This is an uncorrected error as Tony Smith never played for the Boston Rustlers, but my guess has always been that someone putting the set together to begin with mistakenly mixed-up Tony with a third different person/player named Smith, in this case Harry Smith, who did play for the Boston Rustlers in 1910. The TCDB site should list this Smith-Rustlers white silk in their Error/Variation section for this S74-1 set I would think. And here's the Baseball Reference page and image for Harry Smith as evidence and proof that a third, entirely different ballplayer named Smith existed back then.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...mithha03.shtml

If you can get the TCDB site to also look into making this correction/update to their S74-1 set page, that would be super as well. Oh, and in regard to the previous correction TCDB made to their S74-1 set checklist in removing the five player/team silks that actually don't exist, can you let someone know they also need to change the total number of silks they show as being in the set then, from the 92 they previously listed, down to the correct total of only 87 different white, ad-backed silks in the S74-1 set? Thanks.