After Doug Burg and I were finishing up with his APBA Fan Profile I did of him, we talked over email about his APBA Baseball Card 12 List. I offered to host the “12 List” on The APBA Blog servers to reach a wider audience and Doug thought that was a great idea.
So here is the new updated APBA Baseball Card 12 List and Publication Data. It’s in a pdf format. Doug will update it when need be.
What is the APBA 12 List?
For those who haven’t seen “12 list” before, here’s the quick description: it’s quite simple… Doug Burg’s APBA Baseball Card 12 List and Publication Data lists every baseball season put out by APBA and includes pertinent data related to that card set. This data includes:
- where the 12 is located on the card
- # of teams in the set
- # of cards per team (and # of XBs and # of XCs)
- year the set was published by APBA
- whether there are Master Game symbols for the set and if so, what year they were published
- plus other extra data
Since the 12 is placed at a different number every year, it is instrumental in the whole process since it works as an season identifier 
for older sets that don’t have a copyright year printed on the card.
Looking at Al Kaline’s card for example, he has a 12 at 41. The only set put out anywhere in the ‘50s with the 12 at 41 was the 1953 reprint card set. Using that data, we can find more information about the card set it was from. The set was published in 1985 and there were 20 cards per team in the regular set.
Thanks again to Doug who maintains this. It’s an invaluable resource.
I have APBA baseball cards of 1912 New York Giants and the cards have no copyright. How do you tell when published?
Hi Mark,
How old do the cards look? It’s possible they came from the original World Baseball set which came out in the mid-1970s or so.
http://www.apbablog.com/apba-history/flashback-friday-apba-world-series-baseball-game-booklet
Tom
Mark, should have also included this link as well.
http://www.apbablog.com/apba-history/flashback-friday-1971-world-series-set-mailing
Tom