Tuesday Trivia....What TWO HOFers wore #7......

[tedzan]

Craig....I was going to respond to Peter, but your pix of Willie Mays' great catch speaks louder
than any thing I could say.

But, I'll ask this, anyhow.

Hey Peter......

When you played BB in your youth (or now), what position did (or do) you play and how did you
prepare to catch a sky-high fly ?

Incidently, Jack Dunn played SS and 3rd base for most of his career. Therefore, you can bet that
he had to catch many a sky-high fly and his T206 pose shows exactly how he did it.


TED Z

[Peter_Spaeth]

Ted at any position assuming I were not doing the Willie Mays over the shoulder thing and I was facing a ball coming AT me, my glove would be turned the other way. You don't catch a ball with the glove turned in. Would you? And note how if you look at it horizontally both his face and the glove are perfectly aligned with the orientation of the card. Coincidence?

[Anthony S.]

So I'm the only person that realizes it's a diagonal?

[Peter_Spaeth]

That illustrates how far back he is leaning (on a ball coming towards him) if the pose is vertical.

[Matt]

I asked above but it got buried. Weren't all the cards printed vertically? If so, what is this discussion really about?

[Peter_Spaeth]

Bill G. says horizontal.

http://www.goodwinandco.com/LotDetail2.aspx?lotid=3721

[tedzan]

The undisputed SIX horizontal cards in the T206 set were printed in the 1st (150) series.
and were issued in 1909. American Litho. produced the T206's in basic formats of 6 cards
throughout all the T206 series. Now, observe closely these 6 horizontal cards shown here.
You cannot confuse them with all the rest of the 518 VERTICALLY printed cards, as their
background scenes are also HORIZONTALLY arrayed.

There are no HORIZONTAL cards found in the 350 series (of which Jack Dunn's card is in),
nor are there any HORIZONTAL cards found in the 460 series. If there were, there would
be FIVE additional such cards.

If you chose to think that Dunn is a HORIZONTAL card, then that's your prerogative. How-
ever, those of us who have gained insight into how these cards were produced know that
this Dunn card is just another one of the 518 VERTICAL cards in the T206 set.






TED Z

[Anthony S.]

Originally Posted by Matt

I asked above but it got buried. Weren't all the cards printed vertically? If so, what is this discussion really about?

For me it was simply an opportunity to practice my limited photoshop skills...