Ted Z.
 

Miss that guy. He was a teacher of card history. Didn't bitch and moan about plastic slabs, PSA, Fan Fest, refractors or other stuff. He was all about setting the record straight on the history of the hobby. A learned elder. We need more of those types. Unrelentingly positive dude. He was great.

More and more of us are sneaking up on elder status. Learned, on the other hand...

Boy, you sure got this right. Since I got back into this hobby, he was the tops in every way.

Ted ran a trivia contest once and I won. Prize was a T206 card. He asked me which one I wanted and I named a common. He sent me a hall of famer anyway.

You could do worse with a Wednesday night than a "remembering Ted Z" thread.

I would not have had the great wealth of knowledge to launch from when starting and writing my book on 1949 Leaf cards. I can only hope that he would approve of it.Thanks for the insights and stories Ted!

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Always a Fan of off Backs, I got this Piedmont 42 from Ted in Atlantic City at the National. Had a blast chatting with him about the rare backs. Happy to have been able to get one of his "babies" in my collection!

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He would always talk to any serious collector and pass on his incredible knowledge. I will always miss him not only for the cards but also for being a decent human being.

Absolutely and glad I had the chance to meet/talk with him at the Philly shows. Definitely a very positive guy and knowledgeable about the hobby.

I don't have a card that Ted gave me, but in a way, I do. We had a great conversation about Chanute AFB, in Illinois. Ted was in the Air Force, and went to his tech school at Chanute. I was in the Navy and went to my schools there, too. Just many years apart. Here is a photo of Ted at Chanute, and his civilian ID card with a good photo of him on it.

Ted was a great guy and a serious asset to the prewar community. If Ted was a baseball card, he would be a Cobb, Ty Cobb back or maybe an Eddie Collins proof!

Bought a bunch of stuff from Ted in my early years of returning to the hobby. My first was a T206 Mathewson black cap in 1997 at a card show at Union Catholic HS in Scotch Plains, NJ. He was always willing to chat about and help with hobby questions.

A great guy!

I learned a ton from Ted's threads!
 

And miss his deep knowledge and research. Always fun to talk to at shows. His memory and all of v the knowledge he shared lives on here and I'm sure many other places.

I sure miss the Ted talk! Lots of great emails and messaging back in the old days and always down to help me with configurations on the original backs line, based on the cards I already had and very limited funds to build with.

As I had to liquidate my original group, I made sure that Ted got every card back that he had sold or traded to me. He got me good on a couple, including trading me 19 Morgan dollars to get his Lundgren CHI EPDG back!

As I’m researching cards here now, it is amazing how many sets he had dug down into. So many of the old archived things I look at, he was all over.

Ted was 100% right, T213-1’s ARE T206’s!

Enjoy the weekend and stay cool,
Bob

Forgive my absence ?

When did Ted Z pass?

Goodness. Rest in Peace

What a nice and decent Man

Blessings

Without Ted the National won't be the same. From one Leaf Lover to another I'll miss you, "RIP"

It's only been a year and a half. I miss our conversations and his views on everything, a lot. What a great host he was when I stayed with him a few days, several years back.

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I met Ted in 2015 and glad I did. Gosh, has it been that long ago. We both should be gone by now.:D

There are some researchers on this forum, but they're not good conversationalists (like the way Ted was).

It would be awesome if somebody could organize all his work and turn it into a book. It would take a lot of work, but it would be worth it IMO.

Ted's influence obviously went way beyond this forum. As just one example, when I was building my 53 Bowman set a few years ago, he sent me a magazine article he wrote about the Bowman color set, which I printed out to accompany my binder of cards. He was the tops.

Agree, he shared info freely. He was a fun guy to talk baseball cards...well actually fun to talk to on all levels