1928 R315 Philadelphia Athletics...

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Posted By: Brad Green

I have several 1928 R315 Lefty Grove cards. Pictures of a couple of Lefty's cards are below. The one thing that always catches my eye with these cards is the word "Athletics" written below "Lefty Grove". It appears that whoever wrote "Athletics" on Lefty's card really botched it up badly. The "H" appears to have been an "L" at one point. The "L" is not an "L" at all -- it's an "E". So, instead of "ATHLETICS", it looks like "ATHEETICS".

(1) Has anybody else ever noticed this?

(2) Is Lefty's card the only one with "Athletics" botched this badly? (I noticed in another thread that Jimmie Foxx's card has "ATHLETICS" written properly below his name...)

(3) Why would the person who did this not throw out his work and re-do it? Certainly he was aware from the beginning that he had messed up...

(4) Has anybody else ever seen a "corrected" version of this card with "Athletics" written properly below Lefty's name?

Brad

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Posted By: Todd Schultz

I don't recall that "flaw" in the R315 Grove, although I don't own one. Keep in mind that the set was issued or re-issued in 1930, and given the various iterations of the cards' nameplates/captions or whatever you would call them, it is quite possible that the poor lettering was caught.

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Posted By: Brad Green

I was not aware that these cards were issued or re-issued in 1930. The 2004 Edition of the SCD Standard Catalog of BBC does not say anything about this. Were some of the variations made in 1928, while others were made in 1930?

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Posted By: Todd Schultz

if you use the search function. Smead Jolley is the focal point--he didn't make the big leagues until 1930, and he's in the set. Other team affiliations and player selections appear unlikely for just 1928, although they are not definitive like Jolley (Chuck Klein, for example--rookie year 1928, only 60 something games).

As to whether they were issued only in one year and later than what it says in the SCD book or re-issued over several years is unclear, although it seems strange that so many variations of the same player would exist if they were issued only in one year.