I have admitted to some odd collecting habits, with one of the best examples being my entire T204 collection consisting of six Tom Reilly cards. I like obscure when it comes to baseball, and a guy who had 89 at-bats spread over three seasons counts as obscure. See scan below.
I haven't bought a Reilly card in over 20 years. The scan hasn't been updated in about 15 years, except to crop it better. I got one as a type card for Christmas when I was 15-16. Someone soon said how tough T204 cards were, so I asked on the Full Count board (pre-Net54 for those under 30 years old) if anyone had a T204 Reilly for sale. Three people messaged me right away. Apparently I was full of cash from my bakery job, so I bought all three. I don't remember buying the last two, but they must have happened a short time later. Then I stopped there because I wanted to focus on T206 cards.
Anyway, I just stumbled across a book written in 2022 about Reilly. Two people actually wrote 351 pages about one of the most obscure baseball players in a major pre-war card set. Warning, this isn't my book and I have not read it, so this is not a recommendation. I just wanted to see if someone knew of another full book dedicated to a player as obscure, while also sharing the odd T204 collection along with it. At the very least, the photo used on the book is the best photo I've seen of Reilly.
https://www.amazon.com/Irish-Tommy-R...dp/B0BCHCNWX7/
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Please check out my books on baseball history. They include the bio of star second baseman Dots Miller. A book featuring 20 Moonlight Graham players who got into just one game. Another with 13 players who were with the Pittsburgh Pirates during the regular season, but never played a game. There's also one about 27 baseball families, as well as a day-by-day look at the worst team in Pittsburgh Pirates history. All five can be found here:
https://www.amazon.com/stores/John-D...hor/B0DH87Q2DS
01-20-2025, 02:28 PM
An Obscure Player Gets a Card and a Book
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