T202 Center Panels and their relative availability

[brianp-beme]

For many years I have collected the separated end panels from the T202 Triplefolder cards. Now I thought I would offer a companion to this T202 End Panel post from almost a decade ago: https://net54baseball.com/showthread...light=t202+end
and provide the possible relative availability of the black and white photo center sections, for those who like their torn out cards to be 'centered'.

Below I have listed the 76 different photos, identified by the titles shown on their backs, that are seen in the set. If these centers were issued with more than one combination of players on the end panels, the number of different cards issued with this center are indicated in parenthesis.

Certainly some of these should be easier to pick up than others...the Just Before the Battle photo was seen on ten different full size T202 cards. As always, I suggest you collect them all, and I hope you are both a big fan of Hal Chase and enjoy seeing a photo depiction of Bender* and McGraw shaking hands.


T202 Center Panels:

A Close Play at Home Plate (2)
A Desperate Slide for Third
A Great Batsman (2)
Ambrose McConnell at Bat
A Wide Throw Saves Crawford
Baker Gets His Man
Birmingham Gets to Third
Birmingham's Home Run
Bush Just Misses Austin
Carrigan Blocks His Man (2)
Catching Him Napping
Caught Asleep Off First
Chance Beats Out a Hit (5)
Chase Dives into Third (3)
Chase Gets Ball Too late (2)
Chase Guarding First (3)
Chase Ready for the Squeeze Play
Chase Safe at Third
Chief Bender Waiting for a Good One
Clark Hikes for Home
Close at First
Close at the Plate (2)
Close at Third (w/Tris Speaker sliding)
Close at Third (w/Heinie Wagner sliding)
Collins Easily Safe (3)
Crawford About to Smash One
Cree Rolls Home
Davy Jones' Great Slide
Devlin Gets His Man (4)
Donlin Out at First (5)
Dooin Gets His Man (3)
Easy For Larry
Elberfeld Beats the Throw
Elberfeld Gets His Man
Engle in a Close Play
Evers Makes a Safe Slide (5)
Fast Work at Third
Ford Putting Over a Spitter (2)
Good Play at Third
Grant Gets His Man
Hal Chase Too Late (2)
Harry Lord at Third
Hartsel Strikes Out
Hartzell Covering Third
Held at Third
Jake Stahl Guarding First
Jim Delehanty at Bat
Just Before the Battle (10)
Knight Catches a Runner
Lobert Almost Caught (4)
Lobert Gets Tenney
Lord Catches His Man
McConnell Caught
McIntyre at Bat
Moriarty Spiked
Nearly Caught
Oldring Almost Home
Schaefer on First
Schaefer Steals Second
Scoring From Second
Scrambling Back to First (2)
Speaker Almost Caught
Speaker Rounding Third
Speaker Scores
Stahl Safe
Stone About to Swing
Sullivan Puts up a High One (2)
Sweeney Gets Stahl (2)
Tenney Lands Safely
The Athletic Infield (4)
The Pinch Hitter
The Scissors Slide
Tom Jones at Bat (2)
Too Late for Devlin (6)
Ty Cobb Steals Third (3)
Wheat Strikes Out

I have chosen a selection for your viewing pleasure. Show them if you got them. But please, no full T202 cards...that would be gross.

Brian (*actually Harry Davis shaking hands with McGraw, as Mark pointed out in post #14)

[jayshum]

I think you are missing a center panel from your list. I don't have either of them, but there are 2 different Close At Third centers, one with Speaker and one with Wagner. Pictures are from oldcardboard.com website.

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by jayshum

I think you are missing a center panel from your list. I don't have either of them, but there are 2 different Close At Third centers, one with Speaker and one with Wagner. Pictures are from oldcardboard.com website.

Thanks! I was just going off a checklist I had come across, and I assumed that this had a duplication error. I will change the original post and indicate Speaker and Wagner for each Close At Third card pronto.

Brian

[brianp-beme]

As mentioned, the end panels have always held my interest, but here is a middle panel that has certainly garnered some attention within the past decade.

Brian

[brianp-beme]

Just a bump to rattle some T202 middle panel collector cages.

Brian

[ocjack]

I'll play.

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by ocjack

I'll play.

That scissors slide of Hemphill just looks painful.

I thought I would spotlight one of the several center panels that, based on the title seen on the back, does not identify the Hall of Fame player pictured. This one features Nap Lajoie batting, as is noted in the writeup.

Brian

[brianp-beme]

Another Hall of Famer center panel not identified in card title, this one of John McGraw.

Brian

[garymc]

I have to confess I passed over this post several times as the result of my failure to stop and look through my albums for my center panels. The ones I do have all pertain to some action by a NY Highlander.......being that is all I collect !

Gary McNabb

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1619...=notifications

[garymc]

I even hav several black back factory 30's

[brianp-beme]

A BST post for a group of these center panels for sale that I spotted recently spurred me to dig up this thread again. Show 'em if you got some.

Brian

[benge610]

I love the, "Oh Crap" body language as he realizes that picked-off is in his future.



Ben
"I love baseball history backstory; especially when it involves cards."

[Leon]

I don't have any to donate to the thread but those are cool. I do hope to acquire a full T202 with Cobby on it in the future.
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[Mark17]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

As always, I suggest you collect them all, and I hope you are both a big fan of Hal Chase and enjoy seeing a photo depiction of Bender and McGraw shaking hands.

Brian

I used to think it was Bender because it looks like him, but they identify him as Harry Davis.

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by Mark17

I used to think it was Bender because it looks like him, but they identify him as Harry Davis.

Nice spotting...when I posted again, I actually noticed the same thing, and was going to post about it/change things, but now I don't have to!

Brian (but heck I asterisked up my original post anyways, just because)

[benge610]

I love, when the Center Panels come up. TY Brian.
I can't wait for the thread,
"Photographers of the T202 Center Panel"; one of my dives into BB Card History.

It is such a cool world of baseball history, the 1910's era and it's cards.

Ben

"I love baseball history backstory; especially when it involves cards."

[brianp-beme]

Here are six more center panels to chew/have been chewed upon. It is interesting to note that a good chunk of the 76 different photos feature runners/fielders at 1st or 3rd base. Along with the home plate, I imagine this was where photographers could get the best action shots.

Brian

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Mark17

I used to think it was Bender because it looks like him, but they identify him as Harry Davis.

That's interesting..
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