They expanded the seating in Shibe Park in the late 1920's so the team started calling it "Greater Shibe Park". I have a 1929 scorecard marked that way but it doesn't seem like they changed the wording on the tickets until a little later. It does look like the first Tom Shibe tickets were issued in 1932. I'm guessing the person who put together the scrapbook went to games in '32 and just glued them down with '31 stubs.
I think Tom is right about the numbers being event numbers. If you look at that Phillies/Athletics City Series ticket, it's marked 1 and it isn't a regular season game. Guessing it was the first game of the series but have to hit the newspaper archives to be sure. Has anyone ever tried to puzzle out the numbers? It must be a similar problem with other teams' tickets too.
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