[novakjr]

I picked this up yesterday on the bay. It's one of the 1921-39 m.l. die-cuts, of a Detroit player, and the sticker has never been attached. Where the sticker would be is the number 14. I've done a little research, and I've come across another die cut of Harry Heilmann and it has the number 14 on the sticker, so I would believe that the number on the sticker was intended to be attached to the matching cut-out.

That being said, I'm not saying I'm right here, but I'm thinking that mine is the Heilmann and the other I saw was the Heilmann sticker attached to the wrong cut-out. Does anyone know anything about these? I know they had updated stickers whenever a player changed teams, but did they ever randomly change the corresponding cut-out? Basically was the Detroit 14 cut-out always the same cut-out? Or do I have a cut-out that was intended for a completely different player in 1930, when Heilmann was playing for the Reds?

Also, just for the sake of argument, if the cut-out never changed. Would you consider a cut-out with the wrong sticker to be the player named on the sticker, thus resulting in a larger number of possible cut-outs of that player? And would you consider the appropriate cut-out without the sticker to still be the player it was intended for? And would one with the wrong sticker be considered a card of both the originally intended player and the one who's sticker was attached?