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Posted By: barrysloate

An important point Leon makes that I agree with is that all baseball cards were nothing more than a product that had to get to market to meet a deadline; cutting baseball cards was no more important to the factory workers than garment workers who are cutting swaths of material for Jockey shorts- they just had to cut to specifications and make deadlines. And the same way "factory seconds" in garments hit the marketplace handcut cards can reach the market too. Remember, these were not baseball card collectors, just poorly paid factory workers who had a job to do. So I think you can find vintage baseball cards hand cut simply because on a particular day they had machine trouble and a deadline to make. It's no more complicated than that.