T-shirt to chase the dream.....

[CardTarget]

So I've been thinking about creating a shirt that lets people know that you are a person who is knowledgable about old baseball cards.

Basically advertising "Ask me about your OLD baseball cards"... in the hopes that some elderly gentleman will say "Sonny, I collected tobaccy cards when I was a wee pup and I've still got them all just collecting dust... come up to my attic".

I know it's a dream, but it's fun to think about. I recently saw the boyhood collection of a friend which entailed full sets of 52-58 topps, 50s bowman, red man, double play, etc and a ton of other great looking cards that he has had for 50+ years. Amazing stuff. When I told him I'd give him $20,000 for it right now and I bet it's worth closer to $50,000 if he sold it through the right people he didn't believe me. It's probably as close to a "find" as I'll ever get.

Anyway, does anyone have any ideas for what a shirt could look like? And would you want one? Perhaps Leon could use it as the next prize shirt once the current Net54 shirts are gone.

[bbcard1]

It is getting pretty unlikely there are more than a handful of living T206 collectors...maybe a couple, but not much more. If you were 9 in 1909, you would be 103 or so now. You would probably be a man and there are relatively few of us who make it that far down the road. I have seen one tobacco card collection obtained in childhood. That was by an 80+ year old around 1984. Two Cobbs...pretty cool overall. I have also appraised a collection for a museum, which was a lot of fun.

[thxforthebp]

My grandfather is 98 and when anything about baseball is mentioned he talks about his older brothers having T206 along with him having them after they were done saving them. Unfortunatly the cards are no longer around but I guess he would be considered a living T206 collector having saved his brothers.

[barrysloate]

If you were 9 in 1909 you would be 111 going on 112. Don't count on it.

[alanu]

A collector didn't need to be alive in 1909 to have collected T206's.

[bbcard1]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

If you were 9 in 1909 you would be 111 going on 112. Don't count on it.

Math. Dang I do hate math barrysloate.You are right of course as I did not factor in the 9 years.

[62corvette]

I got my 1100 t205's and t206's in ND in 1971-2 from a guy who collected them as a kid in NYC. He was very happy to have found someone who was interested in them!

[Jcfowler6]

Maybe the t-shirt would read something like this?

Honk if you have seen this man?

[jcmtiger]

Years ago I bought some very large Detroit Tiger photos, I mean very large, 5 were 30" x 40" and one was 40'" x 60'. They were done by the Detroit News in the 1930's. Anyway the person I bought them from was 93 years old, this was around 1980. He had many T206 cards in a scrapbook. That was the last original collector of T206 cards that I knew. He would be 125 today. You can see one of the photos as my avatar, Ty Cobb.

Joe

[almostdone]

Don't you think if you had a t-shirt sayying "ask me about your baseball cards" you would have tons of people telling you all about thier "investments" from 1988 - 1995? It happens to me all of the time and I don't have the shirt. It goes something like this
"Hey. Arn't you that guy who collectects old ball cards?"
"Yes. I have a few."
"Well I got a bunch up in my attic from when I was a kid. I still think I got one of those McGwire rookies. I even got a few packs of Upper Deck. In a few years I'll cash those in and take a nice vacation. You want to see them?"
"Uh....Sure. I guess so."
Then the let down and dissapointment comes or the disbelief and something about how I don't know what I'm talking about.
Not sure about wearing a shirt to get to look at someone elses collection of 92 Score cards.
Just my opinion,
Drew

[teetwoohsix]

Originally Posted by jcmtiger

Years ago I bought some very large Detroit Tiger photos, I mean very large, 5 were 30" x 40" and one was 40'" x 60'. They were done by the Detroit News in the 1930's. Anyway the person I bought them from was 93 years old, this was around 1980. He had many T206 cards in a scrapbook. That was the last original collector of T206 cards that I knew. He would be 125 today. You can see one of the photos as my avatar, Ty Cobb.

Joe

Joe- that was an excellent story- and very cool avatar as well !! I would've loved to see that scrapbook.

Sincerely, Clayton