Scarcest error - T card of Magee ?

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Posted By: Ted Zanidakis

FRANK

Ole Buddy.....1st how can you agree with Cycleback, when he keeps editing what he said initially,
and when you respond....then go back to read his post a 2nd time, and it has been re-written.

Now listen to me....I'm going to get "deep" here. To me the Magie and Joe Doyle error cards are a "key".
They are the "mini Rosetta stones", which have led to our improved understanding of this Monster set.

These two cards "sparked" my theory (noted in that famous EPDG thread sometime back) that PIEDMONT
Tobacco was the "prime" Brand and the 1st backs to be printed at every phase of the T206 production.
Indeed, Piedmont is the ONLY brand that encompasses all 522 cards of the set. It fully covers the 150 Series,
350 Series (which includes all 86 Minor Lgrs and the 2nd run of all the 48 Southern Lgrs) and the 460 Series.
None of the other 14 Brands are fully represented on all the Subjects....as the Piedmont brand is.

So, let's talk about "Slow Joe" Doyle. As I said in a prior post the normal "Doyle N.Y." card of him
is no big deal....it is a minor error of omission.
The "Doyle N.Y. NAT'L" card of him is a really, really big deal....and is indeed an error card. How can
anyone say it isn't ? It's obvious what happened here....the T206 dudes confused him with Larry Doyle.
Don't take my word for it, look this up....Joe Doyle had a short pitching career with the Highlanders.
He never played with the Giants.


JOHN D

You make my argument for me regarding the MAGIE error....you stated "Its very likely it was a spelling
error, plus theres plenty of other spelling errors in the set so its not like they were perfect, his just
happened to be corrected for some reason".

So, with all the other spelling errors....why did they choose to correct only this one ?
It's not the spelling error, I am telling you. The T206 dudes were once again confused, this time
Sherry Magee with Mr Magie (I don't know his 1st name, but I will find out more about this guy).

Bill Heitman once said this that the T206 designers were very diligent in keeping up on this set's
player trades, retirements, etc. Spelling errors were trivial to them, but identifying the players
with their pictures and teams was paramount.

TED Z