1913 Lajoie game card.

[brianp-beme]

This thread has been helped me gain a little knowledge about the game cards, especially with Butch7999 information about when these game cards were being produced. 1913 was the only year I have ever seen associated with them, probably because of the copyright date on the instructions. It is also interesting to find out there was a generic player pictured instead on the later runs. Anyone have an example of the generic version?

A multi year run starting in 1913 with Lajoie makes sense. Thanks Butch

I think the game was not universally popular, so it makes sense that a lot of sets of cards ended up not getting abused. My set (a full set purchased from a seller who indicated he found them dumpster diving(!) about 25 years ago), would also lead one to believe that some (definitely not the person who trashed them) found the game interesting, as they have a lot of wear on the sides as well as creases, missing corners, etc.

Brian

[brianp-beme]

A scan of some of mine.

Brian

[Butch7999]

Just some of the box - card back - card front variations / combinations:



The National-American Base Ball Game, eight-result game: Lajoie blue, Lajoie red



The National-American Base Ball Game, single-result game: lefty batter blue, lefty batter red, righty batter blue




New Base Ball Card Game / Base Ball Cards: Lajoie red




World's Champion Base Ball Card Game (The Champion Amusement Co): lefty batter blue

We hope that's of some help. Some details as to dates of production for the above examples and other closely-related games
are verified, others are still lacking. Again, there's a fuller discussion of these sets in an April message thread at our forum.

Justin -- -- tru dat!

[Brian Van Horn]

Justin,

Thank you. Now, could you just kindly compare the paper on the backs of the Lajoies to the paper from the other sets?

Thank you,

Brian

[pokerplyr80]

I'm more amazed that the same seller has a 53 Topps Terwilliger PSA 9 listed for $40k. That seems excessive to me since one sold last year for 3k. Even the 3k is a lot higher than I would have thought.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1953-Topps-1...item3aadb25939

[JustinD]

I think I will just defer to some kid somewhere looking for a idea for a doctoral thesis on paper age and composition. I bet he's out there somewhere dying to start tomorrow.

[GregMitch34]

The bigger mystery after 100 years remains--how the hell do you pronounce Lajoie? Reaching a consensus here on that would be far more valuable.

Also: Nap or Larry?