Uncorrected Pre-War Errors

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Originally Posted by Steve D

All the caramel cards of "Cy" Young, that actually picture Irv Young; as well as the T3 "Home Run Baker", that's a picture of Jack Barry.

I will absolutely never understand people who pay the Cy Young and HR Baker (HOFer) prices for those cards.


Steve

Most of the Cy Young cards with Irv Young are not errors. Irv Young went by Cy Young all of the time, to the point that they started calling the original one "Old" Cy Young to tell them apart. The cards that list Irv Young as Cy Young were just using the same nickname everyone else used back then.

The error is just people thinking there was only one Cy Young BUT the E98 Cy Young that lists him with Cleveland is an error. You just have to figure out if the error is that they thought it was the 511-win Young OR the wrong team listed for Irv Young.

As a side note, when Harley Young came up, he was called Cy the Third. He was traded for Irv Young at one point and both of them were referred to by the Cy nickname in various articles covering the trade.