WG7 Walter Mails Game Set- New Set information

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Posted By: Rhett

The set is absolutely a 1924 set, not sure where the 1923 date came from.
The following players are all shown with their 1924 clubs, in the last years with that club...
-Guy Morton, Cleveland (pitched in only 12 innings, last year in majors)
-Joe Bush, Yankees (played for StL-AL in 1925)
-Pat Duncan, Reds (1924 was last year in majors)
-Walter Schmidt, Pittsburgh (was with StL-NL in 1925, was out of majors the next yr.)
-James Tierney, Boston NL (1924 first and only year with Boston)


The following players played for a different team in 1923, and are shown with their new 1924 Clubs...
-James Tierney, Boston NL (mentioned above, 1924 only yr. w/ Boston NL)
-Ray Kremer, Pittsburgh (made his ML debut on 4/18/1924)--interesting to note that the picture portion has his signature and underneath it it says "Oak baseball club" refering to the Oakland Oaks team-who he played for the previous season.
-Elmer Jacobs, Cubs (was out of the majors from 1921-23, but made a comeback with the Cubs in 1924-1925)

The following are shown as managers in the set, and both started managing in 1924...
-Dave Bancroft, Boston NL (managed Braves from 1924-1927)
-George Sisler, St. Louis Browns (the BLUE card lists him as MGR. and First base; hard to tell but it doesn't look ike the RED back version lists him as a Mgr.)

The unusal card in the set is that of Ray Frnch, the front of the card lists him as "Brooklyns $10,000 Infielder", but he played for Brooklyn only briefly in 1923, and batted only .219. He was with Chi-AL in 1924, but may have been a late season pickup for them (after the set was produced), he hit a whopping .179 for them and was out of the majors for good. Definately NOT worth the $10,000 Brooklyn spent for him.

I feel there is pretty conclusive evidence that the set was a 1924 production, not a 1923 set, as stated in the books.
-Rhett Yeakley