Printing and cutting method for 1941 Goudey R324?

[frankbmd]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

At least it had weak player selection.

Is that why they hired you to cut them?

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

Is that why they hired you to cut them?

No, I was too busy admiring DiMaggio's mediocre season, see Albert Belle thread.

[Spike]

It's reasonable to build a baseball sheets using 4 row by 6 column, 24-card layouts, as that's what Goudey used in their other 1941 set, Sky Birds. See the image below for one possible half-sheet arrangement that calls out a challenge of piecing 1941 Goudey miscuts into a sheet.

Most of these vertical and horizontal overlaps are verified across card pairs. (Mulcahy above another Mulcahy, McQuinn to right of Mulcahy, Chiozza to right of McQuinn, Rosar to right of Chiozza, Ambler to right of Rosar, and so on.) The problem's that a sheet with these 12 guys doesn't align well to graded population reports. A good arrangement would include known adjacent cards and match up at least somewhat to what's graded.

Based on card artifacts, I found location consistency for some numbers.

1. Mulcahy always at left edge of his sheet
2. Clift also always at left edge of his sheet
17. Tamulis often at right edge, might be in middle of sheet at others
32. Coffman always at right edge of his sheet
33. Ott sometimes at right edge, other times in middle of sheet

Some miscuts follow a similar theme, such as top edge cards cut with partial or missing names. This could've happened if a packager misunderstood where to cut the sheet itself and started horizontally, along the printed line. A higher percentage of players on the top or bottom edge of those sheets could've been discarded. (Some "missing name" cards ended up in packs anyway.)

TBD whether things can ever be nailed down for 41G. We might end up with assumed sheets that group players by graded population and known adjacent spots, with a number of caveats. Or we might end up throwing in the towel. :-)