Thanks so far, all! My working theory's that Goudey used 6x5 sheets, with five different players left to right and three repeated strips vertically, giving you miscut overlaps for same players up and down and then different players left and right.
a b c d e
a b c d e
g h i j k
g h i j k
m n o p q
m n o p q
Using letter sequences instead of numbers, since I don't have anything completed to share. Miscuts could be b/b or b/h vertical, a/b or b/c horizontal. With 15 players per sheet, there'd be at least three sheets with different player arrangements to fill the 33-card checklist.
41G has just two "big stars," Mel Ott and Carl Hubbell. It's possible those guys got extra prints and it's assumed others are SPs. Of the four colors, red seems to have worst quality control for cutting, which could explain why it's also the least graded, as Goudey might've discarded many of them before packaging.
More miscut photos are welcome and thanks for the pointer to CardTarget. Using it and WorthPoint have given me a lot to work with.
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