Geographical reach of T206

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Posted By: T206Collector

...the geography a bit by looking at the teams on the cards. The fact that the most west Major League teams at that time were St. Louis and Chicago, the Mississippi is a pretty good dividing line for distribution. Add to that the fact that the Southern League cards stretched from the Southeast all the way to Texas, and you can be pretty sure the cards made it to Texas and the surrounding areas. Also, there were Canadian teams featured on T206, so the cards certainly made it pretty far north, if not into Canada then the teams (like Rochester and Buffalo) that likely played the Canadian teams.

Further, given Obak's PCL prominence, and no California League teams featured in T206 minor league issues, I think it is evident that if Piedmont and Sweet Caporal were being distributed there, it was in much lesser quantities than on the east coast. Given Hindu's prominent advertisements in Louisiana newspapers, Hindu was probably sold pretty regularly in that region. Also, I think it has been proposed that Piedmont was a Northeast favorite and Sweet Cap was a south east favorite (or vice versa).

So, I would say T206 was pretty well distributed North to South when we're talking east of the Mississippi, but if we go west of the Mississippi, then I think Texas would be about it.

Those are my theories and I'm sticking to them.

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