I've been collecting Tudor/Miggle teams for about 10 years now and I'm finally going to put a serious effort into selling them. I've made a number of aborted attempts at listing them here on my website over the past few years but I was never quite satisfied with the layout. I think I've finally settled on a system that makes sense. I intend to keep all the teams up even after they have sold so hopefully this site will serve as a nice source of reference for the hobby. If anyone has any suggestions or corrections to offer please feel free to contact me.
As you can see I've used a sequence of codes to identify the
variations among the teams. I think anyone who's been in the
hobby for a while will recognize most of them and understand the logic
behind the system. The sequence can be decoded as follows:
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 where the players were being
manufactured 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.
