Sunday, February 5, 2017

Seeking assistance from a more knowledeable vintage baseball collector

I had planned on doing a football post today, but I haven't really felt like typing any words onto a screen for the last few days now, and since I seem to be completely incapable of writing anything in advance for these frequent periods of blogging lethargy (I have no idea if I'm using that word in a sentence correctly or not) of mine... I end up with no football post! I know, big loss right?

So in the non-existent football posts place, I thought I would ask for some help on a question that has been bugging me for most of the day, which is... What was the first baseball set to include cards of managers? Not player-managers, just manager-managers. And I'm looking for the first nationally released set, not some obscure regional issue. I keep thinking '33 Goudey, but I'm pretty sure that's going to end up being wrong.

I know this is something that seems more like message board material, but I'm not really the message board sort. And Google is not helping at all (as usual), so I was hoping somebody reading this might know, preferably without having to go through any effort to come up with an answer, as I'm not trying to get anybody to do serious research on my behalf. I will be most grateful if anyone can be of some assistance.


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4 comments:

  1. 1933 Goudey beats my guess of 1960 Topps. Although... I gotta say those 1960 Topps managers cards are some of the sweetest looking cards ever produced.

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    1. I'm pretty fond of the '60 Topps managers cards as well, design wise they really stand out from the rest of the set.

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  2. john mcgraw had a card in the 1909-11 t206 set, and he was done playing by then. manager fred clarke of the pirates is in that set too, but i don't know how many other managers were featured in that set, however.

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    1. Jim, thank you very much! I knew somebody out there would have to know. I hadn't even thought to check that set. Since I don't have any t206's, I have a tendency to forget they even exist. So for anyone keeping track, Jim 1, Google 0.

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