T206 Reference / Reflections.....Tuesday Nite Trivia

[Pat R]

Originally Posted by G1911

The more we've learned, the more I think your hypothesis is the case. It fits with all our evidence, it explains a lot of the seeming gaps and problems, and most importantly it appears to have been the case for other smaller sets that were part of the ATC T card promotion and moved from Brett to elsewhere at least once.

Brett doesn't seem to have done the entire printing of all the sets in Fullgraff's notebook, it looks like they probably shared contracts (T225 Hyland at Brett at least in part, T218 somewhere other than Brett), Brett appears to be a shadow subsidiary of American Lithographic. I'm still trying to find the incontrovertible proof that Brett was indeed a subsidiary or independent, but it appears these partner firms were intentionally obfuscated to avoid anti-trust problems. The correspondence, employments histories, and bizarre collaboration on very small projects between the firms doesn't make sense if they were independent though. Also still hunting for any record that Fullgraff was the PM for the T206's, or if someone else was. I'm unclear if he was the program manager for all the cards, or only some of them that were centered at the Brett subsidiary.

The Plank could be something as boring as only being on one of the facilities sheets for no real reason in particular. His appearance in 2 series makes little sense with most of the more exciting theories for his SP'ing. I feel like the last couple of years we've got to a place where we know what it is we are looking for more precisely, dealing with "known unknowns" more than the "unknown unknowns" of previous.

Yes, I'm not suggesting that this is definitely what happened but it could be as simple as one of the smaller printing facility's printing a smaller portion of the Sweet caporal backs and one of their sheet layouts had Plank on it. That would answer the often asked question of why was Plank pulled and then re-inserted in the production. If that's what happened it wouldn't have been that he was pulled he would have continued to Sweet Caporal 350 backs when that facility started printing the backs for them.

Sometimes people forget that t206's were a premium and not the main product I can't see them saying stop the presses we spelled the name wrong or that player doesn't play for that team anymore. That's why there are way more T206's that are incorrect than there are corrected examples.