1948-49 Cleveland Indians Team Issues

[novakjr]

Your Boone is from a different set. I have this set and there is 20. 17 portraits, and then the action photos of Gromek, Tucker and Papish. The photo on your Garcia is the right one, but as you stated the stock is different(I can't reasonably explain why). The stock on mine does match the rest, so it does belong in the set. My set has the envelope as well, but it's completely torn to hell.

-Bob Feller
-Allie Clark
-Jim Hegan
-Johnny Berardino
-Joe Gordon
-Sam Zoldak
-Mike Garcia
-Frank Papish ACT
-Steve Gromek ACT
-Bill Veeck
-Mickey Vernon
-Bob Kennedy
-Dale Mitchell
-Thurman Tucker ACT
-Ken Keltner
-Bob Lemon
-Larry Doby
-Lou Boudreau
-Satchell Paige
-Gene Beardon

The portraits are scoped out versions of the same photos from the '48 set. With the exception of Vernon, I don't know why they had a portrait of him to work with. And along the same lines, I'm led to believe Papish was an action photo because there wasn't a '48 portrait to work with, so they used his action photo from the '49(facsimile signature) set. But then again, why did they have a portrait of Vernon and not Papish? And why did they use action photos of Tucker and Gromek as well, when they had the '48 portraits to work with?

All questions aside, I believe these are all 1 set from '49, because it include some players that weren't on the '48 team, and also others that weren't on the '50 team. These are also a completely different issue than the "Autographed pictures"(which are often mis-referred to as the photo pack) that most people are familiar with. These are "Cleveland Indians Photographs" as stated on the envelope. It also has information about the "big league novelty co." on it. I also noticed that on Bob Lemke's blog, Chuck Lobenthal had commented, and appears to have the same 20 that I do, and so does 1 seller on ebay. It's seemingly too much of a co-incidence that three different partial sets would all have the exact same 20 photos. So I imagine that this set would be complete at 20.