1939 Play Ball's

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Posted By: Billy Martin, Jr.

For those of you that are into the "newer" stuff you know that the '39-41 Play Ball series have two versions: one version with the names capitalized on the back and a second version with only the first letter of the name capitalized.

That having been said, I was looking through my cards today, and I noticed that amongst the few Play Ball cards that were first-letter-only capitalized every single one of them (purchased from separate sellers) looked more "smooth" in their front side printing vice the All caps versions where I could visibly see the print dots. Normal print dots for this series mind you, not uniform dot-matrix type dots.

Has anyone else seen this, and can anyone help me understand why this might be? Thanks.