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Posted By: Rhett

Actually Billy is correct that there are cards with both all Caps and Caps and Lower Case letters, but this is only found in the 1939 Playball set. In the 1939 Playball set most cards #ed 2-115 can be found in both varieties. Years ago there actually used to be premium (although small) attached to those cards with the Lower Case Lettering. It is interesting to note that apart from having their names different there are actually variations in this set that can only be found in one version or the other, the variations all had to do with changes in wording in the caption, errors in the captions being corrected, etc. On a side note, the 1941 Playball set also has a variation that is not well known, that being that #'s 1-48 (the low #'s) can be found with or without a 1941 copyright date in the back corner. The fist issue of the 1941 set contained 3's 1-48 and was issued in 1941 and on the back of these cards there is a date of 1941 found. The second issue of the set actually didn't come out until 1942 and this included the high number cards ("'s 49-72), but they also reissued the first series along with the high numbers but ommitted the 1941 date on the back. FYI.