Thread: Could that be someone other than Foley White in the white border tobacco cards, T206???
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Old 06-26-2008, 03:15 PM
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Default Could that be someone other than Foley White in the white border tobacco cards, T206???
Posted By: Frank Wakefield

Thank you, Ted.

I was beginning to think that folks at this vintage BASEBALL CARD forum cared more about lawsuits, slabbed cards, grading, GAI stuff, eBay stores and tactics, tobacco pouches, photos.... EVERYTHING other than cards. I care about that other stuff, but prefer posts about cards. And golly, if a post about T206 doesn't get someone's interest, then why are they here??

Anyway....

4 Whites show up in the Texas League in 1909.

Carl White, Houston Buffaloes
David White, Oklahoma City Indians
Foley White, Waco Navigators
William White, Oklahoma City Indians


So if that is Foley White on the T206 card, then the Houston listing is incorrect, the photo wrong.

If it is Carl White, we need to fix the catalogs.

And another possibility would be that the guy on the card isn't Carl or Foley.

Foley White was the best known of the 4 ballplayers above. That could be why a card of Carl was attributed as Foley. Or it could be that they intended a card of Foley, and attributed to the wrong team.

What we need are photos of the Texas League players.

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