Coupon Type 1: Paper Theory

[FrankWakefield]

This, in my mind, is similar to the blown call from a couple of nights ago. The past few days, folks I encounter who know of my passion for baseball, will ask me about and opine about the call. Most non-baseball folk want the Commissioner to fix it. To me it is changing a call to achieve a desired outcome. That's contrary to what I do at work... and it seems wrong to me for the Commissioner to do it. I went to a minor league game last night and met up with 2 fellow baseball fanatics. We were 3-0 on it, the call was blown, it's a shame, it was not a perfect game. Leave it alone and move on. They liked my idea of fellow umpires meeting between home and the mound when they perceive a similar bad call, and they wait for their crew-mate to join them, so he'll know to ask for help on the call...

Here, it seems the desired goal is to have those series 1 Coupon cards called T206. I have GREAT respect for Mr. Burdick's work on the American Card Catalog. I have a hardbound copy. And I have a copy of a postcard work he published. It's more than "he said so". He knew so, too. And it's what my fellow Frank said up there, you can sort 'em out by hand with your eyes closed. I can discern American Beauty cards from other T206s when looking at their fronts. But I can't by holding them one at a time with my eyes closed. I can sort 1914 Cracker Jacks from 1915 Cracker Jacks with my eyes closed. And everyone here could, too, after they'd held a few for a few minutes. The AB's are from identical card stock, cut slightly less wide. The Coupon card is on entirely different stock, but happens to be the same size... (same size as a T205, maybe that's what they really are). The Coupon's don't mention 'series' or '150' or '350'.... They're different. Just like Mr. Burdick said. Different, even if you want 'em to be alike.