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Butch & Co.Hi Gil, thanks again for the responses on both this forum and our own. We're glad all's cool. We try to kid around a bit but we know some folks perceive it as snarky and abrasive.
We were certainly happy to see you check in at "our place" and didn't feel like we were being stalked or anything. There's not an awful lot of overlap in the Venn diagram of the vintage cards that are the focus here and the vintage baseball games that are the main focus of our group, but there's enough that anyone here with an interest in the games thing is welcome to visit our forum as well.
As we mentioned in our original post in this thread, the Billy Owen question was prompted by a new member of our group, who's researching the WG2 set for a friend of his who's planning on selling it. We picked it up and ran with it after that, though, out of purely academic interest. We love a mystery. Or is it that we hate a mystery! Either way. "Must... identify... Billy Owen... arrggh!!"
The Lawson game is universally regarded (if "universally" isn't an inappropriate adverb for use in our very small niche area of collecting) as an 1884 product, but if you've got something that says otherwise, we'd be interested in looking into it. The research on the how-many-balls-constituted-a-walk thing was originally somebody else's -- we merely vetted it -- but that really applied, as we recall, to a different 1884 game, Base Ball ("A Professional & Social Game of Cards"). We're still trying to determine the manufacturer of that one, by the way.
Finally, to the quiz question: sounds like Red Barber's Big League Baseball Game (1950, G & R Anthony). Are we right? What do we win! 