[78-L] How to Play Baseball

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <david.diehl at hensteeth.com>
> Y-351 How to Play Baseball shows up in the advance releases in Billboard 
> for May 31, 1947.
> DJD
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Biel [mailto:mbiel at mbiel.com]
> From: Rodger Holtin > Saw my first story on spring training today, which 
> reminds me...> Everything I know about baseball I learned from the 2-disc 
> set of How> to Play Baseball by Joe E. Brown on a pinkish Victor label 
> 45-5804 and 45-5805.
>
If nothing else, this answers a question for me...that is, why did Victor 
NOT designate
their new "45's" as 45-* but instead numberef them as 47-*! Simple...they 
already
had a "45-*" series of 78's!

Steven C. Barr