Vintage Cubs Cards: April 2012

Sunday, April 29, 2012

1916 Sporting News M101-5 series Chicago Cubs

This 200-card set measure approximately 1 5/8 by 3". The 1916 M101-5 series of black and white glossy numbered baseball cards is very similar in style to M101-4. The set was offered as a marketing promotion by C.C. Spink and Son, publishers of The Sporting News. Most of the players in this set also appear in the M101-4 set.

M101-4 Mordecai Brown

M101-5 Mordecai Brown the same photo except the number is different

Note there are a lot of fakes out there so be careful when buying

1916 Sporting News set comes with several different sponsor ads on back.

1916 M101-5 Blank Backs
1916 M101-5 Block and Kuhl Backs
1916 M101-5 Famous and Barr Backs
1916 M101-5 Gimbels Backs
1916 M101-5 Herpolsheimer Backs
1916 M101-5 Holmes to Homes Backs
1916 M101-5 Morehouse Baking Backs
1916 M101-5 Standard Biscuit Backs
1916 M101-5 Successful Farming Backs

Cubs Checklist

6 Jimmy Archer
16 Roger Bresnahan
23 Mordecai Brown
28 Frank Chance
51 Mike Doolan
58 Bill Fischer
60 Max Flack
77 Claude Hendrix
98 Jimmy Lavender
108 Leslie Mann
128 John Murray
138 Geo. Pierce (Pearce)
152 Vic Saier
158 Frank Schulte
161 Tom Seaton
177 Joe Tinker
180 Jim Vaughn
191 Fred Williams
197 Steve Yerkes
198 Rollie Zeider
199 Heiny Zimmerman
200 Ed. Zwilling

There is one M101-4 card in there can you spot it!

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Difference in u3-1 and u3-2 matchbook

As you can see, there are variations between the 1935–1936 U3-1 and the 1936–1937 U3-2.
Let's take a closer look at it using the great cub Stan Hack as our example.

The blue one in this example is the 1935-36 U3-1.
The red one is the 1936-37 U3-2.

The first major clue is that the pictures of Hack 1936–37 U3-2 are of the head and shoulders, while the early release is a whole body shot.

The best way to tell the difference, because some of the pictures are alike, is in the bio. As you can see, the 1936-37 U3-2 bio mentions the 1936 season. Well, that concludes this series on matchbooks. If you have any questions, just email me and I will be happy to answer them.

Thursday, April 19, 2012

1940 Play Ball "Shoeless" Joe Jackson R-335

Not often do I get vintage sox cards but the guy that I was trading with had this card just couldn't pass it up.

The R-cards, or gum cards, Goudey, Play Ball, Bowman and Topps were some of the most successful cards in the history of collecting.

The cards in this 240-card series measure approximately 2 1/2" by 3 1/8". Gum Inc. improved upon its 1939 (for some odd reason no Cubs cards were included in the 39 and 41 sets) design by enclosing the 1940 black and white player photo with a frame line and printing the player's name in a panel below the picture (often using a nickname).

1940 Play Ball #225 Joe Jackson

Cubs Checklist

1940 Play Ball #174 Johnny Evers
1940 Play Ball #228 Charlie Grimm
1940 Play Ball #234 Frank Chance
1940 Play Ball #239 George Uhle

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

1936 Diamond Matchbooks U3-2 Cubs team set

This 21-player Cubs subset (U3-2) was issued by the Diamond Match Company in late 1936 and early 1937. Each player's cover is featured in three different colors; red, green, and blue. All player photos have shoulders shot. The set was released with two different colors of ink, brown and black.

This particular Cubs subset is fun and fairly easy to collect. It’s important to note that the 1936 U3-1 set is similar and can be very confusing I will show a blow up of all the different bios and show the difference in the sets in next week’s post.

Chicago Cubs Checklist

Number	Player
1	Claiborne Bryant
2	Tex Carleton
3	Phil Cavaretta
4	James A. Collins
5	Curt Davis
7	Frank Demaree
8	Larry French
9	Linus Frey
10	Augie Galan
11	Bob Garbark
12	Stan Hack
13	Gabby Hartnett
14	Billy Herman
15	Billy Jurges
16	Bill Lee
17	Joe Marty
18	James O'Dea
19	LeRoy Parmelee
20	Charlie Root
21	Clyde Shoun
22	George Stainback