[Bridwell]

Hi Tim,

Your articles on T207 are the best I've seen. Congrats!

If my figures are correct, there are 199 different players in T207 (Mitchell is pictured twice, confusing Mike with Willie). Of those, only 13 are HOFers (6.5%).

By comparison, there are about 389 different players in T206. There are 38 different HOFers, some with multiple poses. There are also about 260 different players in T206 that are on major league teams. 34 of the HOFers were major leaguers at the time. The others were minor leaguers. So 34 HOFers out of 260 is 13% stars.

T207 could have been originally designed as a bigger set, but maybe not much bigger. Without minor leaguers and multiple poses, there are almost as many players pictured as T206! (199 players vs. 260) Yet there is half the percentage of stars (6.5% vs. 13% for T206). To match the T206 numbers for major leaguers the speculative 'unpublished series' of T207's would have to contain 61 different players, with 21 being stars. It seems unlikely that the set designers would save so many stars for the final series. Therefore, the theory that halted production explains the lack of stars in T207 is not a good theory IMO.

Ron