Batter Up Color Variations

[doug34-36]

This looks like fun! Spike showed me the mosaic in post 42 and I was excited to fit 177 Billy Rogell and 129 Ernie Lombardi into the upper right (Rogell above 130 Gehringer, and then Lomardi next to Rogell) . . .

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. . . without realizing that they were already known and listed in post 43.


But I think this one's new (190 Paul Derringer in the lower left corner of Spike's mosaic, next to 162 Cascarella):

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I also set up a "Batter Up Pairs" album with larger copies of the images, if anyone's interested.

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[doug34-36]

Three more matches, and I think these might all be new.


107 (Ed Brandt) stepping on 156 (Leo Durocher)'s ball:
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187 (Gus Suhr) and 169 (Ralph Kress) sharing a familiar clump of dirt:
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178 (Roy Brennan) and 161 (General Crowder), plus detail of the weird little oval in Brennan's lower right corner:
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Apologies for the decidedly mediocre photography -- clearly not my area of expertise. The "detail" was not as clear as I'd hoped; if anyone would like a clearer photo of that area let me know.


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[Spike]

Thanks Doug and here's the (growing) partial high series sheet. Note the arrows tracking "Top of card" and seam in the middle, where tops connect to each other. This block seems part of the second print sheet's middle seam. Need a couple more matches to make it seven cards wide.

Seam: 118 Walker | 107 Brandt | 150 Camilli | 105 Bluege
Seam: 138 Herman | 124 Appling | 146 Collins | 122 Lindstrom

Below 118 | 107 | 150 | 105
121 Hallahan | 153 Grove | 156 Durocher
97 Davis | 110 Shumacher | 136 Hartnett

Other 2+ connections made so far that await assembling into the larger puzzle.

115 Andrews/Bottomley | 95 Reynolds

92 Coffman | 111 Hayes/Lyons | 143 Dean

94 Parmelee | 139 Jurges | 135 Galan
83 Blanche

103 Hudlin
114 Chelini | 90 Birkhofer | 134 Harder

106 Andrews | 99 Benge

119 Lyons | 151 Melillo

126 Ferrell | 117 Dickey

132 French | 87 Glen

84 Berger | 120 Auker | 88 Blanton | 137 Hack

160 O’Neill | 125 Martin | 182 Crosetti

[Spike]

Updated layout matches, now have about half of each 7x8 card sheet.

[brianp-beme]

Impressive work...I like how you have gradually assembled the sheet arrangement. Kudos on your matchmaking skills!


Brian

[doug34-36]

A few more . . .

The last one isn't definitive on its own, but based on previous matches, the first one implies that 118 & 94 should be top-to-top and I wanted to show confirmation that that's plausible.

Thanks for tracking these, Spike!

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[Spike]

Thanks to Net54 contributors in this thread and the dodgy trimming of Batter-Ups (hehe), these are the confirmed high series print sheets. I feel good about these layouts, based on multiple sources here and elsewhere online.

I remain intrigued by National Chicle's choice to create a top-to-top card seam along the middle of each sheet, as shown by the solid middle line. Am I overlooking an obvious reason for that kind of layout? Perhaps so. Further feedback and ideas welcome. :-)

[Prince Hal]

I had a few of these cards and decided to put together the Yankees.

In this thread there is a discussion about the high and low numbers being two separate issues. The argument for why it is considered a single issue is the sequential numbering 1-80 for the lows and 81-192 for the highs, and that no players are in both series.

Lefty Gomez and Bill Dickey appear in both series.

This is a great series and hope others will share their knowledge like how these were distributed and show a wrapper or box or advertizement if any exist.

I also hope someone picks up the project of laying out the sheets!