Q:
"I have a 1934-36 Diamond Stars #82 John Babich (Blue Back) without the Brooklyn on the front jersey. Is this card an error? If not can you tell me why this might be?"
A:
I don't own the card, so I had to make a quick online search. Sure enough, the cards found had both variations. Here he is with the team name:
And here he is without any designation on his jersey:
To answer the reader's question, it's not an error card (technically, nothing is wrong, so by definition it can't be an error). What this is would be a variation. While errors and variations are often lumped together by hobbyists, there's a distinction nonetheless.
During my (unscientific) online research, the backs of the three "non-Brooklyn" variations all had a blue back from 1936, but none of the others did. Since Babich's card was one of many in the set with three different back variations, it's possible that the name was removed during the last printing because he was traded to the Boston Braves before the 1936 season. There wasn't a way to produce a new card in time, so National Chicle "fixed" the problem by altering the jersey.
However, this is speculation, so I'm tossing this one out to my readers. Does anybody have any info on this one?
Your idea makes more sense than an arbitrary change, given the handful of other changes made across print runs. At least his new team also used a B, so they didn't tweak the cap.
ReplyDeleteJohn Babich played for the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Boston Bee's. Do you think that the card without the word Dodgers on the front is from his days with the Bee's?
ReplyDeleteI think the artist that made the card took some liberties when coloring his uniform. The Dodgers had pinstripes but the Bees didn't. Neither team had red uniforms.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.baseball-reference.com/friv/uniform_players.cgi?player_ID=babicjo01&teams=1934_BRO-1935_BRO-1936_BSN-1940_PHA-1941_PHA