Let's again debate Cobb's real 1st card ?

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

Gil

I am growing tired of "beating my drum" on the subject of incorrect dating of
BB cards by the Grading Co. I haven't convinced many on an issue as recent as
the 1949 LEAF BB cards, so how do you expect me to change the thinking on sets
issued almost 100 years ago ?

Why can't Lemke & Co. or Beckett & Co. correct this MIS-INFORMATION being fos-
tered by PSA, SGC, etc, etc ? They don't have to take my word for it, just do a
little research (as I have done using my early 1900's Spalding Guides and my
BB Encyclopedia).

Better yet, just read the fronts or the backs of these cards. In the 1949 Leaf
case, many of the 98 cards in the set have information that indicates it is
chronologically impossible that it could have been issued in "1948".

Another example is the E102 Cobb card show on this Thread. Without any doubt
this set must have been produced in 1910 (or later) since Cobb didn't play CF
till 1910. Furthermore, the Germany Schaefer card depicts him with Washington.
This same Schaefer card appears in the E92, E102, E104, E105, and E106 sets.
He was traded from Det. to Wash. late in the 1909 season. And there are other
such examples that confirm what I am stating.....but no one really cares !

Where is HAL when we need him....stuff like this is very important to him.