[deweyinthehall]

Going back to the original post, I took a closer look at those series 1 Cubs variations.

There are 12 color combinations in the 1972 set - 2 teams for each.

The Cubs shares its with the Indians.

In all color combo pairs, the lettering and all its facets are identical, but not here. Look at the Indians - the areas under the letters are green. On the "correct" cubs 1st series cards, and all cubs throughout the set, the underside of the letters are yellow, which also matches the color of the thin border around the whole front of the card. Nowhere else does a card's underside coloring match the border. Look at the 1st series Cubs "errors" - the undersides of the S and C are green - this matches with the Indians colorings and contrasts with the border color.

So what is going on? The "error" cards reflect 50% of what the Cubs cards SHOULD look like - green under the letters. The "correct" versions, and all other Cubs in the set are actually in 'error' in that they do not conform to the set's coloring pattern - they are in fact the ONLY team which fails to do so, so this makes it plain they are an aberration.

I think the green ink was accidentally omitted from the U and B on the series 1 Cubs. Someone realized this created an issue, but rather than correct things and add green under the U and B, they erred and made the C and S yellow. Once that occurred, they kept the design yellow through the other 5 series for consistency.

Reasonable?