Hobby history: The first Old Judge checklist, 1944

[trdcrdkid]

So far in my series of posts on material from the 1939-1944 Card Collector's Bulletins, I've posted the following checklists that Jefferson Burdick published in CCB in those years, all of which were (I'm pretty sure) the first printed checklists of these sets:

Hobby history: The first T206 checklist, 1941
http://net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=239973

Hobby history: The first T205, T202, T207, T201, and T204 checklists, 1940-41
http://net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=240161

Hobby history: First checklists of T209, T210, T211, T212 (1942-43)
http://net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=240273

Burdick did not print checklists of T213 through T216, because those sets had not been listed in the 1939 first edition of the American Card Catalog. (They would appear in the 1946 edition, which also introduced the numbering system we're familiar with.) However, in CCB #30 (June 1, 1944), Burdick did print a rudimentary checklist of Old Judge baseball cards (#127 in the 1939 ACC, #172 in subsequent ones), which I've posted below. As he acknowledged, it's not a complete checklist since it only lists the players on each team without differentiating among different poses (or different years). Still, it was a start.

Following that, I've also posted the second part of Buck Barker's checklist of the numbered 1887 Old Judges, which appeared in the April 1, 1963 Card Collector's Bulletin (#143). Part one must have appeared in CCB #142, which I'm missing. Barker, Preston Orem, and Walter Corson had published some important research on Old Judges in CCB in the 1950s and early 1960s, which I scanned and posted here: http://net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=225081. This checklist was a continuation of that research, but I missed it when I was writing the earlier post, so I figured I would include it here alongside Burdick's 1944 checklist.