1980-87 Baseball Immortals print variation

[cardinalcollector]

The entire first series of this issue has 3 variations for each card.

1. First printing on back
2. First printing on back w/ MLB logo
3. No first printing on back.

The Lord Boudreau card was apparently corrected between issues. You are showing the first 2 variations listed above. Notice the MLB logo to left of First Printing.

[savedfrommyspokes]

Originally Posted by cardinalcollector

The entire first series of this issue has 3 variations for each card.

1. First printing on back
2. First printing on back w/ MLB logo
3. No first printing on back.

The Lord Boudreau card was apparently corrected between issues. You are showing the first 2 variations listed above. Notice the MLB logo to left of First Printing.

Thank you Randy, I appreciate it...a fourth back variation I found is a version with the MLB logo and no "1st printing" on the back. This variation I saw only on the 1987 inductee cards, but still maybe on the backs of others.

Do you know which year that the mlb logo appeared on the back of these cards?

[cardinalcollector]

Larry, I don't think any of the cards come with all 4 variations, all though I only collected the Cardinals in this set. In the higher numbers, I show the following variations:

174 * Gibson Bob MLB logo back
174 * Gibson Bob No MLB logo back
194 * Slaughter Enos MLB logo back
194 * Slaughter Enos no MLB logo back
195 * Brock Lou MLB logo blue/red border
195 * Brock Lou No MLB logo green/yellowborder

[savedfrommyspokes]

Thank Randy for the heads up on the Brock, now I will have to chase down a copy with the green/yellow border.

[Rich Klein]

Anything SSPC/TCMA fascinates me so I checked the COMC Data Base this AM

I've noticed a couple of things:

As of today: We have ZERO NON 1st Printing Cards of cards 174-189

And while we don't have enough examples of every cards it appears the color variations Randy refers to are only for cards 190 and up.

I'd love to get more information and if 174-189 don't exist without the 1st printing notation, we'll eliminate them from the DB and put an internal note.

And if I can verify the rest of the cards from 190 and up with color variations -- those would have to be sent in, we can do that

Rich

[toppcat]

Good stuff here:

http://www.tradingcardcentral.com/ar...28_001_001.php