Do those legal documents specify that the production numbers are for baseball cards only? If not specified, it probably indicates the total card production amounts for all sports and non-sports.
If they are just baseball card production numbers, I utilized a handy calculator to obtain the average production amount for EACH card in the baseball set that I have listed below. Of course each card could be quite a bit different from this amount, depending upon short prints and less printed, tougher series. I lumped the 1939 to 1941 Play Ball issues together, because the 1942 production numbers would seem to involve later distribution as mentioned, and this same time lag could have possibly occurred in the 1939 and 1940 sets as well.
1939 to 1941 Play Ball:
102 million divided by 473 total cards = 215,645 distributed per each card
1948 Bowman:
63.6 million divided by 48 in set = 1,325,000
1949 Bowman:
76 million divided by 240 in set = 316,667
1950 Bowman:
128.3 million divided by 252 in set = 507,396
1951 Bowman:
200 million divided by 324 in set = 617,284
What makes me think these distribution numbers probably include non-baseball issues is the relatively out of proportion per card numbers for the 1948 set, as this issue is definitely not as common as cards from the early 1950 baseball sets.
Brian
Last edited by brianp-beme; 04-26-2024 at 05:13 PM.
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