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Dave SnyderI think knowledge of the era you are collecting in is very important. I've always been a baseball historian but when I started collecting T206's - I became so much more interested in everything about the game between 1909-1911. I'm currrently working on a T206 display in my game room and decided that I want to accent it with vintage pieces of baseball memorabilia........so only items from the late 1900's and early 1910's will do. It's difficult but extremely rewarding.
A wintage 1910's Draper & Maynard first basemans mitt was delivered to my house last night and as I took it out of the box and put it on my hand, I immediately went to look throught my T206's and there it was......John McGraw, glove on hip. It's the same freakin' glove. So cool to think that someone was playing baseball with this mitt 100 years ago.