Can I bump this thread for some clarification?
The card just says "Sweeney", NY Amer.
The guy's name is Ed Sweeney in every publication that I can find. Yet only in the baseball card checklists do we see him referred to as "Jeff Sweeney". This doesn't make sense to me.
Is it possible that 15-20 years ago somebody was making a checklist and confused Ed Sweeney with a latter baseball player named Jeff Sweeney (who was BORN in 1908) and stuck... then every other internet site (including PSA, SGC, VCP, Beckett, etc) copied this checklist and assumed it was right since everybody else has it as "Jeff"?
The baseball statistics website does an excellent job with nicknames for EVERY other player out there.... yet has no mention of "Jeff" for this guy.
Any chance the hobby has had the wrong first name for this guy for years?
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