by rburgh » Fri Dec 02, 2011 7:33 pm
680 AB+BB gets you a limit of rest of the game on any injury roll. Playing all of your team's games in a given season gets you a card with no injury rolls at all. They are mutually exclusive.
A couple of known oddball cards - Tubby Scales and Cap Anson 1894 cannot be injured against RHP but are fair game against lefties.
Negro leaguers kind of get the shaft here on injuries, since most of them routinely jumped their teams for a game or two when a more lucrative opportunity presented itself. Often, players were on the rosters of a team in both the Negro National (Western) and American (Eastern) leagues for the same season. Satchel Paige often played for the KC Monarchs and Homestead Grays in the same year. I suspect he demanded, and got, appearance fees.