Hi Todd,
I can positively confirm that there are no players listed in either the S74-1 white silks or the S74-2 colored silks that played for the National League team in Boston listed as anything other than as Rustlers. Which brings up some interesting questions as to when these two sets were originally distributed, in conjunction with the distribution dates for the other sets you were also looking at.
The S74-1 white silks were definitely issued before the S74-2 colored version silks, based on some of the changes between players/teams shown between the two sets. When I first started collecting silks I seem to remember hearing somewhere that the white version silks were possibly first distributed in 1909, but believe that has been satisfactorily disproved and sometime in 1910 is the accepted start date. So the current thinking is that the white silks were distributed in 1910-11, and the colored version silks started distribution in 1911. And for reference, the T205 set has been determined to have a 1911 start date as well.
There are a few players that help to bear this out. First is Harry Steinfeldt, who was with the Cubs from 10/24/1905 until he was sold to St. Paul of the American Association on 4/5/1911. St. Paul subsequently turned around and then traded Harry to the Boston Rustlers on 5/25/1911. The Rustlers then released him on 12/16/1911, and he never played in the majors again. Harry is shown on the white version silks as a Cub, and then only as a Rustler on the colored version silks. (There are some S74-1 checklists that indicate there should also be a white version silk of Steinfeldt with the Rustlers, but that has since been proven that one does not exist.) And in the T205 set, Steinfeldt is also only shown as a Cub, the same as in the colored silks.
There is then a trade directly between the Cubs and Rustlers that took place on 6/10/1911 that involved several players, but for our purposes, most notably Johnny Kling and Peaches Graham. Kling went from the Cubs to the Rustlers, and Graham just the opposite. In the white version silks, Graham is shown with the Rustlers while there is no white version silk of Kling at all. (As with Steinfeldt, there are some checklists that were showing a second white version silk for Graham with the Cubs, but that has also been pretty much proven to not exist either.) Then in the S74-2 colored version silks, Kling is shown only with the Rustlers, and Graham only with the Cubs. And in the T205 set, Kling is also only shown as a Rustler, but interestingly enough, Peaches Graham is shown on two different cards as both a Cub and a Rustler.
Because of the dates of these trades it seems fairly certain that the S74-2 colored version silks didn't start getting produced till at least the middle to latter part of 1911. And because of the two different Graham cards in the T205 set, it would seem to indicate that the T205 set was released early in 1911. Most likely after the S74-1 white version silks started being produced, but before the S74-2 colored version silks started coming out.
One last item that may have some relevance is that it seems odd that Kling was not issued as a white silk, but was in the colored version silks. I know they expanded the number of subjects in the white version silks from around 90 to the 120 that appear in the colored version silks, but I wonder if the fact that Kling took off the entire 1909 season had anything to do with them not putting him in the S74-1 white version silks? Interesting thing to note is that he took a year's leave of absence after he ended up winning the world's pocket billiards championship after the 1908 baseball season ended. He also invested in a hotel and billiard emporium in his hometown of Kansas City, MO and worked on getting that going during the year off. When he didn't repeat as billiard champion at the end of 1909 he apparently went back to play for the Cubs in 1910 then.
Hope this helps with your research.
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