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Posted By: Ryan Christoff

Scott,

Kenny's right about the year and name. "Almanaque Deportivo" was the name of a magazine. It was smaller than a normal magazine but bigger than a digest (like a TV Guide). For several issues during the 1946-47 season they issued cards on sheets inside the magazine. The sheets had 4 players on each one. Some issues had only 1 sheet, some 2, and one had 4 sheets for a total of 16 cards in a single issue.

What is interesting is that the magazine changed its format to a regular magazine size in the middle of the season and never figured out a way to produce the rest of the cards as inserts for the larger magazine.

So the album the cards were meant to be pasted into once they were cut from the sheets has spaces for players like Ray Dandridge and Adolfo Luque who never had cards produced.

I guess the long answer to why they always have weird cuts is that they were all handcut from sheets, probably by children.

-Ryan