Cards with misspelled names
 

I really like cards with misspelled names. It often occurs in player's earliest cards.

Perhaps the most famous pre-war card with a misspelled name is Sheri Magie T206 error?

I don't have one of those, but I do have the attached, which I really like.

What other cards do people think of that have misspellings?

When it comes to misspellings, I like to display this E220 Bagby that has an added special 'k'.

Brian

Here's a couple of T206 examples:

Not a lot of non-oversized Rogers Hornsby cards with the Cubs so sometimes you have to settle for a Roger Hornsby.

Here's one with two letters wrong creating a different name/pronunciation:

The biggest victim of this had to be Edd Roush. Monosyllabic first and last names, yet easy to understand why it kept getting mangled. Edd?

Speaking of Sam Crane (aka Sam Craig), I'd like to point out that the little biographical information that is readily available regarding his career includes this report: "His career ended when he was arrested after having an affair with the wife of a fruit dealer and stealing $1,500 from the husband." Now I'm thinking nobody gets caught the first time they travel the proscribed path, so it seems possible our hero had reasons to keep his correct name obscured. Fruit dealers can be very annoying!

A little more info on Sam, who parlayed his fruit-dealer caper(s) into a second career as a sports journalist: Samuel N. "Sam" Crane. Second baseman with the Washington Nationals in 1887. 276 hits and 3 home runs in 7 MLB seasons. He debuted with the Buffalo Bisons in 1880. His final season was 1890 with the Pittsburgh Alleghenys. He managed the Buffalo Bisons in 1880 and the Cincinnati Outlaw Reds in 1884. After his playing days, Sam had a long and distinguished career as a sportswriter. It was his connection to baseball as a player, manager, and sportswriter that lent credibility to his assertion that Cooperstown, New York be the location for a "memorial" to the great players from the past. Cooperstown was, at the time, the place that many people believed was where Abner Doubleday had invented the game of baseball. It was this idea of a memorial that eventually led to the creation of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 1939.

And a card with his name correct (I think):

Cob
 

This one always perplexed me. The guy had been an all-time great for well over a decade!

More modern and football but…

Robert A. "Bob" Unglaub. Infielder for the Washington Senators in 1908-1910. 554 hits and 5 home runs over 6 MLB seasons. Debuted with the New York Highlanders in 1904. Managed he Boston Americans in 1907.

This one fooled SGC:

This is actually a double error, card and holder. The player is Bill Krieg, not Sam Crane

Probably the most famous football example. They got it wrong twice on the same card.

How bout the Zeenut, "DeMaggio".
John

"This is actually a double error, card and holder. The player is Bill Krieg, not Sam Crane."

Is that right? Both players played for Washington in 1887, but the clue is the position designation, I guess. Thanks for pointing that out. Getting the players confused is actually not hard to understand given the similarities in their appearance. Assuming the Old Judge cards are correct!?

I'd say those photos are correct. The player wouldn't have changed uniforms mid-photos and both players were let go early in the year, about a month after these photos were taken, so they were definitely taken the same day. Krieg had a card the next year with Minneapolis for comparison.

Willie May is one of my favorites of the many misspellings in cardboard history. Bowman did it twice in a row for him (Mays wasn't in the 1953 set). He was not a superstar yet but he was a hyped future star and ROY winner at the time both of these cards were printed. 1954 was his breakout year into a superstar. 1954 Bowman isn't a popular set but Willie's card is a great picture and one of my favored Mays items

Gus Alberts and James "Bug" Holliday

Here's a strange one:https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...bc3194d0fd.jpg

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Kinda silly, but I remember when George Bell cards suddenly became Jorge Bell cards, and my ready-to-start-hoarding-self sent a letter to Topps to ask if it was some sort of error.

Alas, I'm still awaiting a reply...

Hahaha! Kind of reminds me of when Albert Belle was briefly called “Joey” on his cards.

Reminded me of David "Arias" Ortiz.

Lou Burdette, Mike Cueller, more than once I think.

What's strange is that he was born Selva Lewis Burdette, but signed his name Lou.

Of Reds Misspellings the '54 exhibit is probably the worst offender. Where as most errors are minor and flip the I and E his batting Exhibit straight up dropped the E. Pretty bad. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...8af2ea8efc.jpg

Wow, I never even noticed that.

Very early on, Mays would sometimes print the "s" in Mays separately from the rest of his last name and tended to space it too far away from the rest. One of his million signature charateristics. Whoever was responsible for the facsimile likely missed the s when they traced over the signature they used for the purpose.

Most of the time, the "s" more closely resembled an s. The one illustarated below looks like a "c", or maybe even an indiscriminate pen mark. Therein you've likely found your answer as to why "Willie May" lives on in perpetuity.

Not pre-war but one of the most notable cards is the 1964 Topps Jim KATT card.

Correction: 1965 not 1964.

The m114s were not immune :

In a set where spelling errors are not unusual, this is the most amazing one I have ever seen. How they ever transformed Dalrymple to this alphabet soup I will never know:

I always wondered if that was Ossie's middle name or nickname...but it doesn't seem to be either.

Brian

It is almost as if the person typesetting the card was verbally told Dalrymple's last name by his superior who was mumbling, and the typesetter was afraid to ask how it was spelled, so just made a wild guess at the name.

Brian

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Silent K at the end of a name is not something you see everyday. Wow.

Misspelling Ty Cobb's name 17 years into his career and after he has won all of his 12 batting titles is a real head scratcher.


Does anyone know where the heck they got Pictbred from?

Also, here is a picture of the aforementioned Joe "DeMaggio" Zeenut.

I got this card slabbed recently, and it wll soon be in a REA auction. SGC did not note HOFer Ross Youngs correct name on the slab, despite my noting this on my submission form.