Let's get to 2000
 

Gotta keep this Cardboard Eye Candy thread going!
It's a winner.

Howsa bout the Triples leader?

All Time Leaders
 

Howsa bout the All-Time Doubles leader?

(I'm setting someone up at the net for a spike in the next two posts...)

I got it!
 

Here we find Kid Elberfeld settling under a major league pop-up. Most plays in baseball happen at break-neck speed: swing or take at 95 MPH; get to, gather, and gun to first to nip the runner; sprint down and catch the drive in the gap. They also often involve other players: hit the cut-off man; throw to first for the put-out; receive the ball and fire to second to nail a base-stealer. But the impossibly-high pop-up typically, quickly becomes one player's -- all the way.

But it takes several seconds to soar up, stop, and race down, twisted by invisible wind. Here, Elberfeld is alone, focused on what is clearly his play to make. In the back ground a storm appears to be brewing, tornado possibly. No other player can help him. And it takes time. I think it was Dmitri Young who was asked what he was thinking about as he tried to stay under a high foul pop-up behind first base. He said: "I kept asking myself where the circus music was coming from".

https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1618574796

George's write-ups are always interesting, thank you. Here is a T3 of Art Devlin. He played in an era that deflated his raw statistics, but by some modern measures he was as good or better than HOFers Kell, Traynor, and Lindstrom. At any rate, he was probably the best NL third baseman of the early 1900s and here he is in his last year with the Giants.

Bottomley

Howzabout the all-time home run leader (no PED version):

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Sam "The Triples Man" Crawford. Sadly, despite desperately wanting the world to know about his career MLB triples record, he has been relegated on this thread to being shown in a follow through pose after performing the commonplace activity of throwing a baseball.

Brian

Leroy "Satchel" Paige


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If my experience holds true for others, of your gray/green group, the green are harder. Of the 24 cards found in both colors, I have 4 green and 33 gray (several duplicates, obviously).

Doc Reisling
 

Frank C. "Doc" Reisling. Pitcher for the Washington Senators in 1909-1910. 15 wins in 4 MLB seasons. He debuted with the Brooklyn Superbas in 1904-1905. He had a career ERA of 2.45 in 311.2 innings pitched. His one almost full season was his best and his last as he posted a 2.54 ERA on 191 innings pitched in 1910.

Doc Reisling pitched a little bit in MLB, mostly with the sub-.500 Washington team of 1910. The rest of the time between 1897 and 1915 found him playing and managing in the minor leagues. It was as a manager for Tecumseh in 1914, that he gave us a reason to remember him.

Because poor field conditions led to many rainouts and travel schedules made rescheduling missed games difficult, it was common for the total games played to differ between teams and for the pennant to hinge on winning percentage, not record. Whichever team had the best winning percentage at the close of the final day of the season, was the winner. Previously rained out games could be crowded into the last few days of the season, but the opposing team had to be available and teams (and players) were reluctant to travel just to make up games once their team was eliminated.

At the end of the 1914 season, with the pennant coming down to the last day, Doc managed to schedule (and win) a triple header which gave his team the best winning percentage. Alas for Doc and the Tecumseh team, the league president invalidated the third game, and they were denied the pennant. But you can't say they didn't try.

And, of course, Doc's 1909-10 stint with Washington, allowed him to leave us this card.

https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1618679207

Some Reese's pieces

Someone lamented the lack of Crawfords in this thread, so here's mine

John's 33 Lou
 

It would be interesting to see if anyone else has found some of John's stamped cards.

E121

Did someone say Crawford?
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1908 Broadway Champions Inter City League
 

1908 Broadway Champions Inter City League

E107 Lew Drill
 

Lewis L. "Lew" Drill. Catcher with the Washington Senators in 1902-1904. 231 hits in 4 MLB seasons. His last MLB seasons were 1904-1905 with the Detroit Tigers.

Lew Drill was a good hitter, especially for a catcher. His career OBP was .353 and in 1905 he outhit teammate Ty Cobb. As an 18-yr old rookie, Cobb hit .240 in 1905. But, Drill's MLB career was cut short in 1906 when he refused his contract because he could make more money as a lawyer.

Drill had a long career as an attorney and, as a protégé of U.S. Senator Thomas Schall was appointed in 1929 to the post of United States Attorney for Minnesota. He gained notoriety when he refused to vacate his office for a Franklin Roosevelt appointee until December 1935 when Senator Schall, his sponsor, was killed in a car accident.

But, any proper list of Drill's noteworthy accomplishments would be headed by his status as a graduate of Georgetown University and his hitch with the Washington Senators, which was timed perfectly to allow him to leave us this card.

https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1618744806

Jake wants more cards please
 

Quit Stahling, keep em coming

You got it.

PIEDMONT 150

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Look closely
 

Stahl thinks your Jaking it.
Is there a smiling Jake out there or is the t205 the closest we will get?

Here's another of my E98s for the thread. I'm really liking the blue backgrounds in this set.

This is a great thread to just peruse from start to finish guys. Thanks to all who have posted something!


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Nap spread out (these were purchased from a seller who rescued them from a dumpster).

Brian

T207 Ray Morgan
 

Raymond C. "Ray" Morgan. Second baseman for the Washington Senators in 1911-1918. 630 hits and 88 stolen bases in 8 MLB seasons. His career OBP was .348. His best season was 1913 as he posted a .369 OBP with 19 stolen bases in 565 plate appearances.

Morgan has an odd link to Babe Ruth: in 1917, he led off a game by drawing a 4-pitch walk from Boston starter Ruth, who was then ejected from the game by the home plate umpire. Ruth was replaced by Ernie Shore and Morgan was thrown out attempting to steal on Shore's first pitch. Shore then retired the next 26 batters he faced. Shore's "perfect game" was eventually down-graded to a "combined no-hitter" by subsequent revisions in the MLB criteria.

Those of you outside a small portion of the middle Atlantic region (put a circle around Baltimore, MD), may find it difficult to appreciate one of Morgan's other peculiar specialties -- he was an outstanding duckpin bowler. Three balls and you're out!

https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1618832400

Both the E93 Standard Caramel and E98 Collins cards actually picture Jimmy Collins, not Eddie Collins. Both players played for the Philadelphia Athletics in 1907 and 1908. Jimmy was the established star, while Eddie was just a newbie. I believe both the catalogues and grading companies identify these cards incorrectly as Eddie.

Brian

Here's something a little different: a cabinet featuring some game action. I have no idea where or when this is from...maybe a college team (the buildings look vaguely collegiate). I looked with a magnifying glass and could find nothing useful. Open to any suggestions, maybe there is enough here for someone to recognize something. The only thing I am pretty sure of is that Buck Ewing is the catcher :).

Can't help myself I like Reese

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I’ll help you with that, even though I already posted the T215-1.

M101-4/5 Dorf Ainsmith
 

Edward W. "Dorf" Ainsworth was born Edward Anshmedt. Catcher with the Washington Senators in 1910-1918. 707 hits and 22 home runs in 15 MLB seasons. His best season was 1919 with the Detroit Tigers as he posted a .354 OBP with 42 runs scored and 35 RBI's in 419 plate appearances. He finished his MLB career with the New York Giants in 1924. He later managed the Rockford Peaches in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

Ainsmith is one of five MLB players who were born in Russia. He was Walter Johnson's personal catcher for 8 seasons -- he caught 48 of Walter's 110 shutouts.

From Ainsmith's SABR biography: After the 1924 season, he organized a tour of ballplayers to Japan where they played a number of successful exhibition games. Buoyed by that success, he decided to organize a tour of women players to the Far East next, partnering with Mary O'Gara, manager of the Philadelphia Bobbies, one of the most prominent female teams of the period, adding a few players to her core team. Eddie and his wife, Loretta, accompanied the team to Japan, as did former big league pitcher Earl Hamilton and his wife.

However, there was dissension on the team, as both O'Gara and Ainsmith wanted to be the manager, and players split into factions. Once in Japan, the ladies could not hold their own against the teams of Japanese men they faced, even with Ainsmith and Hamilton helping them on the field, and the trip turned into a financial disaster as crowds stayed away.

The initial promoters bailed out and the team moved on to Korea, where it split in half. Ainsmith and Hamilton convinced three of the better female players to stay with them and recruited four locals to complete the team, hoping to raise some money by arranging their own fixtures, as they did not have any money left to pay their return fare to the States.

For her part, O'Gara went back to Kobe with the rest of the squad and unsuccessfully asked the local U.S. Consulate to bring them home; she eventually convinced a couple of local expatriate businessmen to give them the money to return, but Ainsmith's group was left stranded. He found enough money to get himself and his wife home, but left behind the three young female players. When the girls' families in the States were finally able to raise the money, one of the players, Leona Kearns, a 17-year-old left-handed pitcher, was washed overboard and died when the Empress of Asia was hit by a huge wave when she was on the deck.

https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1618911262
https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1618911271

Happy birthday, Dave Bancroft.

E120 Bancroft (1922)


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In honor of the Sam Crawfords posted
 

The 1910 Punch

Diecut Dave and the Screaming E121's (featuring the E120 Philadelphia Nationals on bass)

Brian

Couple of Ruth cards, went side ways again, don't know why it happens sometimes.

sweet, one of my favorite cards.

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Yesterday was Dave Bancroft's birthday, today is Joe McCarthy's. He doesn't have as many cards as Dave, but here is one. Well done going from minor league sub to Hall of Fame manager.

E90-2 American Caramel of Leach. I prefer providing large scans so as to not hide minor creasing, as is seen in the upper portion of this card.

Brian

Tabasco Kid
 

If he only had a W on his chest.

Another of my E98s...


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I see your Leach, and I raise you another Leach! Crease free!

Bill