Check out these T213-2 "error cards".....Show & Tell us about your T213's

[tedzan]

Ed Summers' MLB career ended with Detroit in 1912.

Shown here is a 1914 COUPON (T213-2) card depicting Summers with the Brooklyn Tip Tops of the Federal League.

Definitely a No-No......Summers never pitched for this Brooklyn team.

However, Rudy Sommers was a pitcher for the Brooklyn Tip Tops in 1914. My guess is that American Lithographic mistook Summers for Sommers ? ?

What's your guess ?

......................... 1910 ............................................ 1910 ............................................ 1914
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TED Z
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[Leon]

Ted, your explanation on this one makes sense. I am surprised this issue hasn't been brought up before as there are a lot of T213 collectors.

[Sean]

Great catch Ted. We can always count on you for interesting notes about these cards.

[t213]

There are several other T213-2s with player/team combinations that never existed. I have a list somewhere, just not handy at the moment.

Andy

[tedzan]

Originally Posted by t213

There are several other T213-2s with player/team combinations that never existed. I have a list somewhere, just not handy at the moment.

Andy

This is very true.

I'm going to post and display a few more of these T213 cards with wrong players (or wrong teams) after I scan the cards.

When you find your list, please post it here.


TED Z
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[RCMcKenzie]

One of the ones that I remember is the Bill Chappelle/Larry Chappell mix-up. Bill played for the 1914 Brooklyn Tip-Tops...Larry played for the 1916 Cleveland Indians. I'll see if I still have either one of these cards and post scans later if I do...I guess if they meant for the 1916 "No R" card to be Larry Chappell, then it was not an error...

[tedzan]

From 1909-1914, Germany Schaefer played with the Washington Senators. The 1915 season he played for Newark in the Federal League (not Kansas City,
as this 1914 COUPON card states).

In 1900, Schaefer played for the Kansas City Blues. Perhaps that has something to do as to why the mix-up occurred with his T213-2 card.


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TED Z
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[z28jd]

I have 1/20th of a Schaefer T213

[tedzan]

Originally Posted by z28jd

I have 1/20th of a Schaefer T213

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Cool card of Owen Wilson / Schaefer....thanks for displaying it.


TED Z
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[ValKehl]

Hi Ted,
Thought you might like to see this 1915 issue that also incorrectly states the team that "Germany" played for:
Val

[nolemmings]

I've been intrigued by t213-2s for awhile now. Ted, another mistake like the one you mention is Tim Jordan, who played for Toronto in 1914 and part of 1915 but who never played for Fort Worth, yet his t213-2 can be found with either team listed. Seems there was also a Timothy Jordan who played for the Fort Worth Panthers in those years, about whom little is known. Don't know if they thought they had the right guy or just figured it was close enough.

Can anyone point me to research on how the t213-2s were distributed over the three years? Was the same group of 63 or so cards printed each year with just updated or changed team info and the occasional airbrush like Collins and Herzog? Is there any player in the set who is not captioned with his 1914 team but just a 1915 and/or 1916 team?