And what about rainouts and makeup games? Surely they woudn't have printed the entire season in advance, so what effect did those have on the numbering? A few years back, I picked up a Washington home ticket originating from a kid's scrapbook wherein he had noted the year for all of his items, and the ticket was in his "1907" section, with a photo of the scrapbook page as proof. It was numbered "44," and I got excited at the idea that this would have put the game in range to have been Walter Johnson's debut in a doubleheader on August 2 that year. But when I tried to pin it down further, I got fouled up by the unknowns regarding the very questions you and I are asking, and nobody seemed to have the answers, so I gave up and sold it for $50. I still wonder about that ticket. Good luck, Jeff.
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