Vintage Card Backs Question

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Posted By: James Walker, Jr.

Are there any vintage card backs that list the player's birth city and state?

I know that that Topps has been showing it since their 1952 set. Are there any earlier sets that show this information?

Thanks,
James Walker, Jr.

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Posted By: runscott

I don't know if all the CJ's do, but lots of them anyway. A cursory check shows that all the '41 Playballs, '35 Diamond Stars and '49 Bowmans have it. '34 and '33 Goudeys sometimes have it as part of the player bio.

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Posted By: Elliot

Not just the '35 Diamond Stars, but all of the Diamond Stars have this information.

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Posted By: Dan Mathewson

The 1940 Play Ball issue has that info as well. I had to go back and look at the T201's and T202's. They have a lot of stat info and little write-ups, but not birth city/state. Even the T205's have quite a bit of info on the back, apart from just the tobacco ad.