[Leon]

Interesting story of how this card almost went up and flames...

" Thought I would share how I got this card. About 1963 I was a hungry college student and was doing odd jobs including house painting for Mrs. Smith, or Royal Oak, MI, age then perhaps 80+. One afternoon I went into the back yard to throw out some trash and Mrs. Smith was busily feeding letters and post cards into a fire. I asked her if I could have some as I had inherited a card collection from my mother. She looked at me kind of odd, went through the shoe box of cards, threw a few more into the fire and gave me the box of cards. I kept the cards all this time and not till recently decided to look thru her cards and sell on eBay. As I am not a big baseball fan the Ty Cobb card escaped my first inventory. But, of course, eventually realized I had a nice find. If I would have walked out into the back yard back them 5 minutes later all would have been ashes."