1926 Spalding football cards

[jefferyepayne]

Originally Posted by revmoran

We began discussing this set on the Hunt/Casterline Pro Football Hall of Fame Card Collection thread - especially about the scarcity of the Benny Friedman card. Maybe this has been covered before, but the scarcity of the Friedman card is a mystery to me, especially since an uncut sheet showed up several years back and you can see that there is no reason for Friedman to be a short print. Benny is 8 rows from the top, six in from the left. I had no trouble collecting the other football cards, but Benny is the white whale - Why?

That uncut sheet is DA BOMB (sorry, showing my age)! Wish I owned it.

You might have had no trouble getting the rest of the Spalding set, Mike, but it was the toughest set to complete in my run of 1888-1988 nationally distributed football cards. The last four cards I needed were:

Grange
Nevers
Oberlander
Stuhldreher

and I only complete the set thanks to your willingness to help (and that guitar you wanted!).









I'm working on the Master Set now of all player/back combinations but don't expect to ever complete that effort.

jeff