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Originally Posted by Sean
When Nagy listed 524 cards he counted Sweeney and Sweeney "no B" as separate cards. I don't know if Egan did the same.  |
Ah, I see. I can't seem to find a copy of Egan's checklist right now, but I see that Erbe and Mitchell's
American Premium Guide to Baseball Cards and Beckett and Eckes'
Sport Americana Baseball Card Price Guide #4 (both published in 1982) both include Sweeney "no B" as a separate card but don't include Joe Doyle (N.Y. Nat'l). So they both list 524 cards in T206, but with that one difference from present-day checklists. I'm guessing that Burdick didn't know about either the Sweeney or Doyle variations, or if he did, he didn't consider them separate cards. The same goes for Magee/Magie, which were both #347 in Egan's checklist, according to Lipset. That gets us to the 522 that Burdick listed in the 1960 ACC, but it doesn't answer the question of which other card Burdick didn't know about in the 1930s and early 40s, when he was referring to it as the set of 521.