Cards with misspelled names

[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.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Very early on, Mays would sometimes print the "s" in Mays separately from the rest of his last name and tended to space it too far away from the rest. One of his million signature charateristics. Whoever was responsible for the facsimile likely missed the s when they traced over the signature they used for the purpose.

Most of the time, the "s" more closely resembled an s. The one illustarated below looks like a "c", or maybe even an indiscriminate pen mark. Therein you've likely found your answer as to why "Willie May" lives on in perpetuity.

[taul166]

Not pre-war but one of the most notable cards is the 1964 Topps Jim KATT card.