Tony,
I'm looking at my 2004 Beckett edition.
The T205 set contains 186 major league players and 12 minor leaguers, for a total of 198 different players. In addition, there are 20 variations of major leaguers, for a total of 218 different cards. The minor league cards are tougher to find, and are therefore more expensive/valuable. Two of the minor leaguers (Jimmy Collins and Jack Dunn) are more valuable still, as Collins is in the Hall of Fame, and Jack Dunn is the man who basically "found" Babe Ruth. Ruth's nickname "Babe" in fact, came from the feeling that he was Jack Dunn's "Babe(y)".
Beckett has simply numbered the first 186 (major league) cards in alphabetical order, and then given the 12 minor leaguers' cards #187-198.
Beckett has given the variations a letter suffix after that card's particular number. Therefore for example, Roger Bresnahan's two cards are numbered 20A and 20B, and Dick Hoblitzell's four cards are numbered 76A - 76D.
Back difficulty pretty much mirrors the backs in T206.
Steve
Last edited by Steve D; 09-19-2009 at 12:42 AM.
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