You are a baseball card designer in 1911....

Hypothetical thread....

Let's say the year is 1911 and you work for a tobacco company as the designer of their baseball card inserts. Drawing on sets made prior, what characteristics would you bring together to create the "perfect" baseball card design?

An example would be:

-Gold borders from a Ramly

-Bio back from a t205

And so on until your card design is complete. What would you have come up with

I always thought a T205/T206 hybrid would be cool...

I also wish I would have worked on T206 then Jackson would be in there...

Size and rigidiity of a Goudey, to make flipping easy.
Bio and stat back.
No borders, like Exhibits (borders are for sissys).
Player image is print from real recent photo.

Essentially a Fan Craze, without the game association, but with player description and statistics on the back. As series 1. Series two will contain the same players and card design, but with action photos.

Make a card:

same size and Gold border of a T204 Square Ramly with the color of a T3 turkey Red with both action and portrait pictures.

Mark

<------------------ This is how I look when I start out third from the end of the bench, and the






other two guys just got called upon to pinch hit, and both got a single, and the pitcher is due up next.


Ooops, I forgot:

wonkaticket wrote:

I always thought a T205/T206 hybrid would be cool...

Nice! I like the way those work together.

Ok here's my creation that brings together all my favorite characteristics from other sets...

• Highly detailed color lithography (1910/11 Obaks).
  
• T205 style bio back with green printing (Sovereign/American Beauty), red printing (1911 Obak) and blue printing (M116).
  
• Backs contain a large number of advertisements of varying scarcity and design (T206) but they are smaller and located at the bottom (t205).
  
• Bio contains complete career statistics (like t205 and t201 but more complete).
  
• Set includes portraits, action poses, 2 player poses (t3 and N172), team cards (t200), every team's manager, as well as umpires (N321) and even a mascot (D322). The great players from the day are featured on several different kinds of cards.
  
• Cards are slightly larger than tobacco size, but much smaller than a CDV or cabinet (size of a m101-4/5).
  
• Cards have a nice, clean, standard size white border with a caption at the bottom (t206).
  
• The team manager will have gold embossed borders with a formal portrait (t204).
  
• Caption will include the player's position in addition to the name and team.
• 300 cards in the set, making it challenging but completable.
  
  

For me, the t205 set is perfection. It has everything I like and want in a card. #2 would be the Diamond Star set as I really love anything art deco.

Jay

sabrjay wrote:For me, the t205 set is perfection.

I agree with Jay. The back of the card set the standard for modern baseball cards. They were the first cards to include a bio and stats. i liked the t205/t206 hybrid.


-Randy