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Originally Posted by nolemmings
Not sure I understand the question, or at least why it's limited to New York. Seems that many (all?) teams have different abbreviations; e.g. Indians show “Clev.”, "Cleve” and “Cleveland”, and Colt '45s show "Hous.", "Houston" and even just "H.". The choice didn't really seem to be limited to space limitations but I only made a cursory check. Am I missing something?
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I'm guessing a lot of the proof sheets back then were just mocked up by hand. I know they were in '67, what with the whole "Tom" vs. "Tommy", "Tommie" Reynolds card and the weird spacing that wound up on the final version. Keith Olbermann has a whole article on that somewhere.