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Todd SchultzI thought your point was that the set was intended to be issued in sheets, and then got cut up into indiviual cards due to circumstances surrounding the war. That is not true.
The set was always available in cut form, as evidenced by Mendelsohn's ad and the Sporting News ads that followed a few months later. It also appears that any war influence did not occur until later, as evidenced by the relative spate of sets issued circa 1916 (all m101*, Tango Eggs, Collins-McCarthy/Boston Store/Weil, Fleischmann, BF2s) and the paucity of sets the following three years.
As for adding something other than the obvious, I can do that. I believe the initial m101-5 set had Beals Becker and Bobby Wallace, yet they remain uncatalogued. The fact that other players are catalogued in their place further indicates multiple print runs of that set.