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Originally Posted by matty39
As some of you may know, I collect 1936-8, BF3 pennants. Recently I was going over my type nine pennants. This is a group of 78 player pennants, with 26 players from the cubs, 26 from the White Sox and 13 each from the Bees and the Cardinals. I don't know the size of the rosters in 1937, but 26 seemed too many. I presumed that the player lists were from Spring training, so I tried to check the pennants against a player roster for that year.
The result was I found that I have six pennants of players who never made it to the majors. Is this unique or do many card sets have players in them who never got to the majors? Below are the pennants of the players who I think never made it to the majors.
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This is interesting because Red Ball was based in Chicago and all these players are from a Chicago team with the exception of Frasier and the Frasier pennant is most interesting. He was in the White Sox minor league system in 1936, was purchased by Boston on September 7, 1936, and was returned to Chicago on May 15, 1937.
It really narrows down when this set was produced. Are there any known examples of a player's pennant being updated because of a team change? I suppose that is academic since this set is quite rare.