Putting the Walter Mails Game cards in the spotlight

[Pat R]

I have a few newspaper clippings from 1924 I'm watching the truck race right now and I will post them later.

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by Pat R

I have a few newspaper clippings from 1924 I'm watching the truck race right now and I will post them later.

Great...it should be interesting to see what you have.

They race trucks? Is that something they do between innings along the warning track?


Brian

[ValKehl]

Brianp-beyou, here are my WG7s, as per your request in the other thread:

[Pat R]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

Great...it should be interesting to see what you have.

They race trucks? Is that something they do between innings along the warning track?


Brian

A few newspaper clippings
Mails baseball game The_Bulletin_Tue__Mar_25__1924_.jpg
Mails baseball game The_Oakland_Post_Enquirer_Tue__Apr_28__1931_.jpg
Mails baseball game The_Oakland_Post_Enquirer_Tue__Jun_10__1924_.jpg


No warning tracks in the truck races but sometimes fences are involved and it can get pretty wild
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q0obgffS0Y

[brianp-beme]

Thanks Pat, sounds like Groves had a connection to Southern California as well. And definitely seems like PCL ballparks were possibly involved in distributing these sets.

I still need to see if I can locate the list of differences between the blue and red back sets that Rhett mentioned. I did find this in-depth article by member Anson that goes into the history of the set and its developer.

https://prewarcards.com/2018/04/23/t...ls-game-cards/


Brian

[Tom S.]

Here's my blue back and red back Walter Mails cards of Johnny Mostil showing a different baseball play on each:

[brianp-beme]

No luck on Rhett's list of differences between red and blue backs, but I did find this ad from January 1928 issue of Baseball Magazine, which does seem to indicate that these were still being distributed four years or so after the original release, from a company (I assume headed by George Groves) in the Greater Los Angeles area:

waltermails1928ad.jpg

This ad was shown on this thread:

https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=236679


Hopefully neither rain nor snow nor sleet nor hail shall keep you all from delivering the Mails (info/card examples).


Brian

[rhettyeakley]

Here is the ancient (for this site) thread where I discussed this set some years ago and where some of the information on Old Cardboard comes from...

https://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?p=411635

I studied the set quite a bit then and at that time had both the complete Blue and Red backed sets so I could map out the variations between the two sets (there are a lot that vary from major to minor changes).

I thought I had shared that list with the Net54 community via a thread but I cannot find that thread right now...this site is pretty tough to search.

I still have that information (variations) and can share it if people are interested.

-Rhett