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1) COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: CH =
China,
HA = Haiti, HK = Hong Kong
2) APPROX YEAR OF MANUFACTURE: Pretty self explanatory I think. As I
said the dates are approximate. Mostly the dates are just there to
indicate that a manufacturing change of some kind has occured. This
might be a change in the country of manufacture or a general change in
the mold, the paint style or the printing on the bags. Or the change
may only affect one particular team such as a slight variation in
uniform colors. It's very difficult to pinpoint exact dates so bare
with me on this....
3) OTHER DEFINING CHARACTERISTICS: AMB = Amber, BM = Big Men, CL =
Chicken Leg, HL = Hog Leg, PH = Painted Helmet Logo, SH = Stamped
Helmet Logo.
I initially put the year of manufacture at the end of the sequence but
I think having a number in the middle breaks up that "alphabet soup"
feeling. I still think the sequence is kind of cumbersome but it covers
all the important information and still allows for some flexibility. I
have tried not to make anything in the sequences redundant but I have
bowed to convention where it seems necessary. So while all teams that
fit under HK67 are obviously going to be BM a lot of people are
attached to the term "Big Men" and I didn't want to disregard it
entirely. I also thought about including a code for hole vs. no-hole
bases but that produced some really long sequences and I just didn't
like the look of it. As a general rule-of-thumb all the players from
1967 to about 1984 had holes in the bases. From about 1985 on there
were no holes in the bases except for the "67 BM re-issues" that came
out a few years ago.
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