Dec. 1957 Hobbies magazine: Lionel Carter on baseball cards, Sullivan on scorecards

[Piratedogcardshows]

Thanks David I have been really enjoying the Lionel Carter writings. I also like the fact that almost 50 years after distribution, the Red Border set was still pretty unknown with the count at 500+. I wonder who first put together the checklist at 640? Great stuff.

[trdcrdkid]

Originally Posted by Jason

Thanks David I have been really enjoying the Lionel Carter writings. I also like the fact that almost 50 years after distribution, the Red Border set was still pretty unknown with the count at 500+. I wonder who first put together the checklist at 640? Great stuff.

In the 1953 American Card Catalogue, T210 is listed as "over 500", and I'm sure that's where Carter got his number. In the 1960 ACC it's listed as "563 known", so somebody must have been trying to do a checklist in the interim, but I'm not sure who. Maybe Preston Orem, who started heavily collecting all kinds of T and N cards in 1956 and wrote various articles about them for hobby papers, some of which I've posted. But there were other people collecting T210s and other minor league cards, so I don't know.