With the time that I have had on my hands I am very slowly plugging away on cataloging my Cleveland Indians and St Louis Cardinals team issued postcards (or Photocards as they call the Cardinals issue).
Does anyone have a master checklist for either series?
I have used the Sports Collectors Bible for organizing the
Cleveland Indians team issued postcards and it is pretty helpful for those although I have a lot that aren't in there and am missing quite a few that are in there. I probably have 400+ of these before they moved to the standardized color issues of 1973 and on.
The
St Louis Cardinals Photocards are an absolute beast of an issue to organize. I have long collected the issues from around 1950 to 1970 (easy to date before 1971 as they switched to the pull-over jersey style for the 1971 season and that is how I have always cut them off. I am now looking at a stack of probably 300-400 or so from the pull-over 1971-1978 era that I have absolutely no way to make any headway in organizing them. There used to be a great website that had the issues all dated and the seemingly infinite variations cataloged that I used for years for the pre-1971 issues but it seems like that site is no longer around and I am a bit lost.
Any help from the team issue collectors would be much appreciated.
-Rhett Yeakley
rhettyeakley@gmail.com