Which Robin Roberts card is rarer?

[Volod]

Darn, I forgot about the blog. That would be the place to go to see this stuff. Thanks for the reminder, Al.

[toppcat]

...that discusses Woody saving the three MLAS short prints:

[Volod]

Thanks very much, Dave. Very conscientious of you to remember to post that months afterward. A highly interesting read about the Gelmans and Topps. A little disappointing though that Mortensen did not ask about the 1951 issues specifically, and Gelman did not mention them either. Perhaps the information in the sidebar note is simply a claim that Gelman, Sr. had made at some point, but it suggests only that most of the three MLAS rarities were in fact destroyed by Topps, and Gelman maybe had to rescue a few examples from the trash bin. Do you have any other information that indicates the three shortprints were printed separately from the other eight in the set? Or, is it just that it would have been more work to cut those three out of a full sheet in order to throw them away? Thanks again for your diligence.

[toppcat]

Hang tight Volod, looking for the short print detail and should recoup it soon. Will post when I find it, no worries.

[toppcat]

Found part of the MLAS short print solution, as it were. The eight regular issue cards look to have been printed adjacent to each other. I thought I had a scan of the three short prints together as well but it's eluding me at the moment.

[Volod]

Thanks for that, Dave. I recall seeing those strips somewhere a few years ago. It's interesting that the poorly cut edges of the bottom and top do not match up. That is, whoever cut the strips apart - assuming that they were once part of a sheet - apparently cut them apart crudely and then trimmed the top edge of one strip...or might they have been cut from different sheets, with who knows how many cards on each one? If you find a strip of the big three, would really like to see that, as I have only seen them individually.