Cards with misspelled names

[z28jd]

Originally Posted by GeoPoto

Here's one with two letters wrong creating a different name/pronunciation:

This is actually a double error, card and holder. The player is Bill Krieg, not Sam Crane

[Fballguy]

Probably the most famous football example. They got it wrong twice on the same card.

[talkinbaseball]

How bout the Zeenut, "DeMaggio".
John

[GeoPoto]

"This is actually a double error, card and holder. The player is Bill Krieg, not Sam Crane."

Is that right? Both players played for Washington in 1887, but the clue is the position designation, I guess. Thanks for pointing that out. Getting the players confused is actually not hard to understand given the similarities in their appearance. Assuming the Old Judge cards are correct!?

[z28jd]

Originally Posted by GeoPoto

"This is actually a double error, card and holder. The player is Bill Krieg, not Sam Crane."

Is that right? Both players played for Washington in 1887, but the clue is the position designation, I guess. Thanks for pointing that out. Getting the players confused is actually not hard to understand given the similarities in their appearance. Assuming the Old Judge cards are correct!?

I'd say those photos are correct. The player wouldn't have changed uniforms mid-photos and both players were let go early in the year, about a month after these photos were taken, so they were definitely taken the same day. Krieg had a card the next year with Minneapolis for comparison.

[G1911]

Willie May is one of my favorites of the many misspellings in cardboard history. Bowman did it twice in a row for him (Mays wasn't in the 1953 set). He was not a superstar yet but he was a hyped future star and ROY winner at the time both of these cards were printed. 1954 was his breakout year into a superstar. 1954 Bowman isn't a popular set but Willie's card is a great picture and one of my favored Mays items

[kkkkandp]

Gus Alberts and James "Bug" Holliday

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by G1911

Willie May is one of my favorites of the many misspellings in cardboard history. Bowman did it twice in a row for him (Mays wasn't in the 1953 set). He was not a superstar yet but he was a hyped future star and ROY winner at the time both of these cards were printed. 1954 was his breakout year into a superstar. 1954 Bowman isn't a popular set but Willie's card is a great picture and one of my favored Mays items

Wow, I never even noticed that.