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Posted By: warshawlaw

Although the later sets obviously are not in the earlier ACC editions (e.g., post-war sets are not in the 1939 edition) and the post-1960 sets are not in there at all.

Why Burdick lumped them all together is impossible to say; he actually has more entertainment sets than baseball sets. He mistreated the boxing the same way, which is even more curious because the 1921-1928 sets had biography backs with copyright dates on them. The "standard" for differentiation of the sets was first done by Elwood "Woody" Scharf in a series of articles in The Trader Speaks. His nomenclature is still employed by some old-time dealers and collectors.