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[Hot Springs Bathers]

The only Armed Services editions that I know of are Yankees, Cardinals, McGraw and Gehrig. The only other possibility for s service edition I believe would be the Dodgers. It was released at some point in 1945.

[Hot Springs Bathers]

The Putnam's and their editions that I know include;

Baltimore 1955 (actually history of the St. Louis Browns)
Boston Red Sox 1947
Chicago White Sox 1952
Cleveland Indians 1949
Detroit Tigers 1946
New York Yankees 1943, 1947, 1948, 1951, 1958
Washington Senators 1954
Connie Mack 1945, 1948 (history of Athletics)

Boston Braves 1948
Brooklyn Dodgers 1945, 1947, 1948
Chicago Cubs 1946
Cincinnati Reds 1948
Milwaukee Braves 1954 (update of the Boston Braves)
New York Giants 1952
Philadelphia Phillies 1953
Pittsburgh Pirates 1948
St. Louis Cardinals 1944, 1945, 1947, 1950

The Umpire Story 1953
The Story of Baseball 1950
The World Series Story 1949, 1950
Lou Gehrig 1942
John McGraw 1944

Just as an aside, has anyone ever seen a McGraw with a clean white dust jacket, they all seem to be dingy.

I mentioned earlier that I considered the set at 19 but actually 22 would be final number. This list of editions is not proclaimed to be final ,more a beta version. Please add years if you know of any.

[barrysloate]

That's great information Mike. We really should archive it for future reference.

[Hot Springs Bathers]

Thanks Barry, I am sure Max has a deeper understanding of the Putnam series and certainly you both know much more about the earlier issues on the game. I love all of them!

I like series of books, I have done a great deal of research on the Strode series of college football histories. A lengthy series that in no way compares to the well written Putnam baseball books, the Strodes range from excellent to gosh awful.

By the way Putnam started a football series that consisted of the Chicago Bears by Howard Roberts and the Green Bay Packers by Arch Ward. They also did two books in this period on Notre Dame. A later book by Roberts titled THE PRO FOOTBALL STORY would probably end their football offerings that match the period of their baseball books. All are well written.

[Hot Springs Bathers]

Shoot! I forgot Roberts Putnam book on the Big Ten. I'll shut up now.

[baseballart]

Originally Posted by Hot Springs Bathers

Shoot! I forgot Roberts Putnam book on the Big Ten. I'll shut up now.

Mike

One more Putnam variant that I seem to recall. Doesn't a later printing of The Cubs have a different dust jacket, with cubs being depicted, or is my memory playing tricks?

Max

[Hot Springs Bathers]

Max I don't know, as I mentioned this is a beta version of the checklist, a later Cubs edition is exciting. Can someone tell us more?