FURTHER UPDATED -- T206 524-Card Set Complete & On PSA Registry

[pawpawdiv9]

Mount Rushmore being replace with these 4 iconic pieces of cardboard.
WOW! You sir are on fire!!!!
I understand the Wag..but have zero knowledge of this Doyle..all i ever seen was the other s in the set. Dont know why its so rare and etc.
You have a impresive collection and would love seeing your whole collection on Flickr or whatever.
Congrats.
Btw....birthday coming up...Leon it be great to see a T-shirt with the Big 4 on it commerorating this awesome acheivment.

[Steve D]

Originally Posted by pawpawdiv9

I understand the Wag..but have zero knowledge of this Doyle..all i ever seen was the other s in the set. Dont know why its so rare and etc.

Here are the basics:

Joe Doyle played for the New York Highlanders in the American League, and Larry Doyle played for the New York Giants in the National League.

Originally, the Joe Doyle cards were printed with the caption "Doyle, N.Y. Nat'l".

Apparently very early in the print run, the caption was corrected to delete the "Nat'l" reference. Noticeably, no effort was made to adjust the centering of the remaining caption, or to add the correct "Amer"; all the corrected Joe Doyle captions are off-center to the left.

The error was never noticed until the 1970s, when Larry Fritsch discovered it. To this day, I believe fewer than ten copies of the "Doyle, N.Y. Nat'l" cards exist.

Steve