Batter-Up cards

[Mike Eisenbath]

Thank you so much for the information! I'm really sorry if I posted this in the wrong place ... didn't pay close enough attention. My mistake for sure.

I love so much the wealth of info and education available here. One of my collecting goals for 2023 is to learn about at lot of the vintage and pre-war sets that I occasionally see at a card show or see mentioned in a thread here.

[cubman1941]

So these are all considered Brown? Two are obvious but I thought the other two might be Septia? Thanks.

[Bill77]

My red and magenta side by side. I think it's funny that for a set called Batter-Up that there are so few batting poses for the players.

[brianp-beme]

Something that was not identified (as far as I can tell) until it was brought up on here multiple years back, is that there are two separate groups of color availability within the #1 to 80 grouping of Batter-Ups.

First off, 6 different colors are available in cards #1 through 40. I will identify them as I have always done (being that I was limited to smaller packs of Crayolas when growing up).

Black + White (no tint)
Sepia
Blue
Purple
Green
Red

Numbers 41 through 80 are only found in the following:

Black + White (no tint)
Sepia
Blue
Purple

I believe this is the main reason why the Red and Green tints are less commonly encountered, as a whole, in the 1 to 80 grouping, and thus are considered by some to be less common.

Here are the two threads that gradually identified, exposed, and revealed to the vintage collecting world this color availability split within the set:


The first thread, with pertinent color information starting with post #16:

https://www.net54baseball.com/showth...ghlight=batter

The follow up thread:

https://www.net54baseball.com/showth...ghlight=batter


Brian

[brianp-beme]

And here are some tintvisuals.

Brian

[GeoPoto]

"The earlier, lower series cards can be found in colors/hues of black/gray, brown/sepia, red/pinkish, blue, and green. For simplistic purposes, let's call them black, brown, red, blue and green."

I have these three #32-Cronin's. I thought they were blue, pink/red, and purple. Is purple wrong and really a faded red?

https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1671737266
https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1671737269
https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1671737272

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by GeoPoto

"The earlier, lower series cards can be found in colors/hues of black/gray, brown/sepia, red/pinkish, blue, and green. For simplistic purposes, let's call them black, brown, red, blue and green."

I have these three #32-Cronin's. I thought they were blue, pink/red, and purple. Is purple wrong and really a faded red?

https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1671737266
https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1671737269
https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1671737272

Purple is correct...see my post (#17) in this thread.

Brian

[BobC]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

And here are some tintvisuals.

Brian

I always just thought of the red/pinkish as different hues of the same color or so. I guess it may be considered as an extra, separate color, after all. I think someone else said there is a magenta hue.

[leftygrove10]

Here are the six color tints for Lefty Grove #31.

[edhans]

Originally Posted by cubman1941

So these are all considered Brown? Two are obvious but I thought the other two might be Septia? Thanks.

The Hack is sepia. The others are blue.

[cubman1941]

Originally Posted by edhans

The Hack is sepia. The others are blue.

Thank you. Reason I asked is earlier post indicated high numbers did not have sepia. Appreciate it.

[edhans]

I said brown when I should have said sepia. Same thing.