Do Any of You Have any Writing Samples from the Hobby Pioneers?

[leftygrove10]

Take a look at the back of my R315 Travis Jackson card. (And No! I did not write on the back of the card... ) But it is interesting... It says "R315" and "with position + team name in the bottom boarder"... And "border" is mispelled as "boarder"...

Perhaps someone in the 80's wrote this after looking at a baseball card catalog... But (and perhaps I am stretching it a bit) perhaps one of the hobby pioneers owned this card at one point and wrote this on the back... Burdick? Lionel Carter? Do any of you have any writing samples of Burdick or Carter (or anyone else) that look similar to this? It would be really cool if I could trace the ownership of this card back to one of the hobby pioneers...

[tedzan]

I have a stack of letters written to me from Frank Nagy in the early 1980's. Everytime I would win cards from his mail auction,
he would include a letter with the cards telling me I overbid (with a refund), or some tidbid of information regarding the cards,
or how scarce the cards were, etc., etc.

Frank was one of the best of this hobby's pioneers.

I have to dig up the letters from my "archives", they are buried somewhere in my sports room.


TED Z

[bh3443]

Hi Ted,
Those letters from Frank Nagy must be true gems! Hope you find and ost them!
Your Friend,
Bill Hedin

Originally Posted by tedzan

I have a stack of letters written to me from Frank Nagy in the early 1980's. Everytime I would win cards from his mail auction,
he would include a letter with the cards telling me I overbid (with a refund), or some tidbid of information regarding the cards,
or how scarce the cards were, etc., etc.

Frank was one of the best of this hobby's pioneers.

I have to dig up the letters from my "archives", they are buried somewhere in my sports room.


TED Z

[leftygrove10]

Originally Posted by tedzan

I have a stack of letters written to me from Frank Nagy in the early 1980's. Everytime I would win cards from his mail auction,
he would include a letter with the cards telling me I overbid (with a refund), or some tidbid of information regarding the cards,
or how scarce the cards were, etc., etc.

Frank was one of the best of this hobby's pioneers.

I have to dig up the letters from my "archives", they are buried somewhere in my sports room.


TED Z

That's cool... Thanks, Ted....

[Exhibitman]

I don't know handwriting but this card has Burdick's stamps on it:

[Leon]

Here is some Burdick, Barker and Corson (sorry so small)....handwriting....

[sox1903wschamp]

That Charles "Buck" Barker letter is priceless. Thanks for posting it Leon.

[Ease]

Originally Posted by sox1903wschamp

That Charles "Buck" Barker letter is priceless. Thanks for posting it Leon.

+1

[gnaz01]

+2 , that Barker letter is awesome!!

[iggyman]

Serial back stamper...

Lovely Day...

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[T206Collector]

After I interviewed Carter about his Eddie Plank, he and I exchanged a few letters, which I posted on my website. Feel free to check them out, but I do not think the handwriting is even close to what you have posted here.

[ecRich]

Here is one of many notes and letters from Frank Nagy to me back in the day.
Good times

[Brendan]

Very cool stuff here.

[leftygrove10]

Originally Posted by iggyman

Serial back stamper...

Great Grove card!!!!!!

[leftygrove10]

Thanks, Guys.... Keep 'em coming... I haven't seen anything that matches yet... Burdick's handwriting is the closest, although I don't think it is the same... I will take a closer look tonight.....

[Cerberus]

I have some 20+ year old correspondence (pre-email), from Barry Sloate, when we used to trade in T205's. I will examine it closely, to determine whether or not he's the one that misspelled "boarder."

Michael

[Kalineman]

I still have some Frank Nagy letters from the early 1970s. I was just getting ready to head off to college and wrote a letter asking Frank how I could continue collecting while going to college, being that money was so tight. He wrote a six-page letter back, on that narrow stationary of his, giving me some great advice and enclosing a dozen old matchbook "cards" of baseball and hockey players. Because I've kept those letters for 40+ years, my wife calls them my first love letters.

[Rich Klein]

It's a long story -- but I have lots of original information and writing from the pioneers.

Leon, my beloved is out of town this week --- you are welcome to come on over later this week and we'll look and see if there is anything you want to post to the board

Rich

[barrysloate]

Hi Michael- I would have to see them. Maybe I would even remember them.

[leftygrove10]

Here are some writing samples from Dick Dobbins. (Sent to me by Larry Moe.) Dobbins was a big collector from the bay area. He wrote a couple of books about the pacific coast league and had a huge collection of pcl cards. He died in the early 1990’s. I think there are definitely some similarities between his handwriting and what is on the back of my R315... But it's not a slam dunk... Notice how Dobbins starts words that begin with "t" and notice how the "t" is written at the beginning of "team" on the R315.... Very similar... Other letters are similar as well....