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leonThis is of great social importance folks so listen up 
. After I posted about this yesterday I spoke with my good friend Lyman for (what my wife said was 2 hours) about 30 minutes, mostly discussing this topic. As long as folks have a rationale for what they do then at least there is a "reason". One thing I have never taken the attitude of, and dislike, is the reasoning "well, it's always been that way". So we started talking about W575 vs E121 and how they are categorized. I said that recently I have gone back to the ACC and found out some "new" old info on different sets. When looking up E121 and W575 the ACC says:
E121- Baseball Stars (120) rectangular b&w 2 x 3 1/2 1st issue marked (80) many team changes etc.
W575- Baseball Photos about 2 x 3 1/4, various sets, blank back, Anon.
Similar to E121, E122, E220, W502 one set has autograph on shoulder
SO there it is in black and white. My theory is this. American Caramel did not technically mfg the cards as that was not their business so they outsourced it. Whomever made the cards already had the presses going and it was not much extra to produce more sets as the machines were running, so to speak. American Caramel got their xxx amount of sets and then the others were sold to other companies. I don't think American Caramel had anything to with this (unless they sold extra sets, which is a small possibility) and neither did Mr. Burdick or else he would have said "various sets" when describing E121's. He didn't. He did say the E121's were similar to W575's, which we already know. So the fact that he said "various sets" when describing the W575's, to me, means that this is where these other sets should go and NOT in the E121 category. I am going to start listing all of my "E121 like" cards as "W575/x-unc. I feel that will close my personal dilemma and unless someone can convince me otherwise, which with the overwhelming reaction here, I doubt will happen, they will be classified as such, by me. Along a similar note I am going to classify the E135 type cards, with different backs, as E135/D350 etc...as there are no other W cards like these with ACC numbers on the front listed........best regards...moderator dude