Posted By:
leonWell,
With the underwhelming response received I pulled out my own references for the answers. It only took about 30 minutes to find. I thought it would take longer. All of the backs are printed in blue ink with one exception. Actually there are about 12 exceptions as Series 3 was printed in black and blue and has only the "When you think of baseball, etc..." back. There are subtle differences to some of the fronts of the the Series 3 cards too (there were 24 series in all) but I am not concerned with those for my type set. So the answer to the first question is: There are only 3 different backs to the set...and the first words on the different backs are:
1."When you think of Base Ball" (sic)
2."If you want Base Ball News" (sic)
3."Sporting Life's Base Ball Players" (sic)
. ....regards all