M101-5 vs. M101-4

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Posted By: Hal Lewis

The Mendehlson ad is clearly for the M101-4 set, because it specifically advertises for a player who did NOT appear in the M101-5 set...

and it appeared in the Sporting News on April 16, 1916.

It is therefore going to be hard for ANYONE to deny that the M101-4 set had already been printed and was ready for shipment on April 16, 1916.

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The M101-5 set lists players on teams for who they did NOT play prior to February 10, 1916.

So even if they started designing the printing press for those cards on that very day...

it would have taken a few weeks to get the die cast and the cards all printed up.

It is therefore going to be hard for ANYONE to deny that the M101-5 set could NOT have been distributed to anyone prior to February 24, 1916.

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Given these facts... the LARGEST period of time that someone could argue between the two sets is AT MOST sixty (60) days. AT MOST!

BUT... for someone to even be able to make that 60-day argument...

they are going to have to come up with SOME PROOF (anything) that shows where the M101-5 cards were offered to the public in MARCH of 1916!!

Until something like that appears...

the logical conclusion (as evidenced throughout the years) is that ALL of the cards distributed to the public in 1916 (in EVERY set, not just the M101-5 and M101-4 sets) were first distributed right around the opening day of the baseball season.

When someone finds an Advertisement for M101-5 in March of 1916, then I will have no choice but to admit that I was wrong. So happy hunting!