Easiest and hardest backruns?

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by Abravefan11

That genuinely made me laugh. Thank you.

I may of course have missed you posting but it feels like it's been a number of years?

[brianp-beme]

No info on how easy or hard, but below is a compilation of subjects as seen in E90-1 American Caramel, E92 Crofts Candy, E92 Crofts Cocoa, E92 Dockman, E92 Nadja, E101, E102, E105 Mello Mint, E106 American Caramel, D303 General Baking, D303 Mother's Bread, T216 Kotton, T216 Mino, T216 Virginia and Tango Eggs sets that share artwork and have at least 9 available cards.

Mind you, the totals seen below do not include blank backs, the Blue and Red back Crofts Candy color variations (Sorry, not familiar with availability on any of these). Any cards seen in the T216 sets are counted as 3 subjects, but due to unfamiliarity of actual availability of a subject in each set, my inclusion of these are subject to individual review. Also I have included in the totals cards from sets that have the same artwork, but have a different player identified (an example of this would be the Tinker batting card, which in both the D303 Mother's Bread and Tango Eggs sets are identified as Buck Weaver). And I may have just missed things...remember, this information is provided free of charge and was compiled by someone doing community service on the weekends, so reader beware.


14 - Bescher
14 - Lobert
14 - Wagner batting

13 - Bender white hat
13 - Chase catching
13 - Collins
13 - Crawford red background
13 - Donovan arm raised
13 - Doolan
13 - Doyle batting
13 - Gibson back view
13 - Mathewson horizontal
13 - Murphy
13 - Schaefer horizontal
13 - Tinker batting
13 - Wagner throwing
13 - Zimmerman

12 - Cobb front view
12 - Dooin batting
12 - Evers
12 - Jennings leaping
12 - Knabe
12 - Miller throwing

11 - Casey
11 - Dougherty
11 - Jacklitsch
11 - Mcgraw
11 - Shean
11 - Smith

10 - Bemis
10 - Bender striped hat
10 - Doyle throwing
10 - Kleinow
10 - Lajoie fielding
10 - McLean
10 - Miller batting
10 - Schmidt
10 - Seigle
10 - Young pitching

9 - Bergen
9 - Bridwell sliding
9 - H. Davis sliding
9 - Devlin
9 - Hartsell
9 - O'Hara
9 - Schlei


Brian

[Luke]

The easiest back run of 9 or more examples almost certainly is a T206 from the 150-350 Series. It won't be any of the poses with a really hard to find Old Mill, but that still leaves some good candidates. From there you'd pick a pose that wasn't printed with a Hindu back.

My pick is Mike Donlin Seated. He wasn't printed with a Hindu back, and for some reason he is one of a handful of 150-350 Series poses that are fairly easy to find with an Old Mill back. I think the EPDG would be the toughest card to find, but it wouldn't take you too long to track one down.

Here are Donlin Seated backs:

EPDG
P150
P350
Sov150
Sov350
SC 150/25
SC 150/30
SC 350/25
SC 350/30

[sando69]

my vote goes to sherry magee port!
there are ten possible back variations.
it is an iconic image, with a VERY valuable fraternal twin.
(not to mention that "MAD" magazine doppelganger)
they are popular, VERY available AND EXTREMELY affordable at a fraction of the cost of the cobbs!
EPDG
HINDU
OM
P 150
P 350
SOV
SC 150/25
SC 150/30
SC 350/25
SC 350/30