1st February Pick-Up Thread

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Posted By: phil

I thought I would start it out with this one just picked up this past week on ebay..........




edited scan size

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Posted By: peter ullman

that is suh-weet...for a pin!

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Posted By: Steve F

Excellent item!

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Posted By: Rhett Yeakley

Cangrats Phil, that was a great price too, though the image is slightly light (pretty common for the issue). I only know of 3 that I can confirm to exist. Yours (I believe it's the same one that was in Robert Edwards a little while back), mine and the one in the Richard Wong book. There may be another one or two out there somewhere, but definitely one of the tough HOFers from the set. Also, what is cool is that the photo is a early 1890's image of Young that was recycled by the American Pepsin Co. The image they used itself may predate the image used on the Just So.

-Rhett






Edited to change thae fact that the Young was sold at Robert Edwards Auctions (not Mastro)

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Posted By: Phil Garry

Thanks, Rhett. You're exactly right, the Young image is actually the same one that appears on the unique 1890-92 Ryder Studio Cabinet card of Young and must date from that time period, a good 6-8 years before the Cameo Pepsin Pins were issued.

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Posted By: Todd C

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Posted By: Anonymous

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Posted By: chiprop

Jeff- I thought for sure you would have picked up the m110 Cobb. What happened?

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Posted By: sean

My son's 75 th signed 1933 goudey

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Dan, for some reason it just didn't move me all that much. Not sure if it was the grade, the marks or what.

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Posted By: peter ullman

jeff...nice nadja chase...super toughie!

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Posted By: chiprop

For some reason the m110's are notorious for having those "cat scratches" it must be a production flaw. I was the under bidder, but it got pricey for me. The crease in the upper right corner wasn't in Cobb, so it didn't bother me. Very nice Chase! Be well

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Posted By: leon

I had my eye on that one....I love the Nadja back..and if I didn't have a Nadja back you would have had to pay a lot more....nice card

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Posted By: Scott Sarian

Took a chance on a raw card on ebay; it came today and looks great!

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Posted By: Patrick McMenemy

I picked up this Chief Meyers T201 on eBay recently.



I also discovered that the image on the T201 comes from a photograph dated 1909.




Patrick

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Posted By: Steve Murray

BST Trade deal. Thanks Richard.

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Very nice Steve! One of my favorite cards.

edited out my stupidity.

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Posted By: Justin Fung

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Posted By: Steve Murray

Obak is considered by most to generically be a PCL issue notwithstanding teams from the NWL are included.

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Posted By: Dave F

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Posted By: Adam Baxter

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Posted By: Todd C

gotta love the USA flag in the card !!!

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Posted By: Brian Lindholme

48 Yorks down ~ Here are my latest 3 ~~

Enjoy!
Brian L
familytoad
Ridgefield WA

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Posted By: Todd C

with a Piedmont factory 42 back

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Posted By: Jantz

Nice pick-ups by all

These are from the BST. Thanks David P.

Being a T206 collector from Ohio, Polar bear T206s don't have tobacco stains, they have beauty marks.




Jantz

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Posted By: Brad Green

I picked up a few Minor League cards and, while I was at it, grabbed a few of Rob Dewolf's cards. Perhaps I'll start a collection of net54 members who used to play in the minors.

Or perhaps I'll trade them to Rob for a rare Lefty Grove card or two? Do you happen to have anything I would be interested in, Rob?

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Posted By: Matt

Brad - that's an early nominee for post of the year. Mostly for the post itself, but partially because of where it sets the bar for Rob to respond.

My Trade/Sale Page

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Posted By: Rob D.

"Look away, I'm hideous."

I just hope and pray those were given to Brad.

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Posted By: Jim VB

I'll bet someone will ask: "Didn't you get a moustache with that nose and glasses?"


I won't ask that because I'm too classy of a guy and Rob seems likable enough. However, someone on this board will sink low enough to ask.

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Jim, I agree, I will also not sink that low to make such a crack about those glasses.

However, I do have to ask: Rob, did your wife see you in those glasses before she agreed to marry you?

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Posted By: Matt

Jeff - His wife married him BECAUSE of those glasses, not in spite of them. She still makes him put them on from time to time when things get dull.

My Trade/Sale Page

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Posted By: Tony Andrea

Rob, don't listen to any of these guys. I've seen much worse.

Tony

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Posted By: Rob D.

Keep 'em coming, boys, because if you think there weren't worse barbs flying in the backs of those buses on trips from Wichita to Little Rock, you're sadly mistaken.

By the way, Tim, where are you? There's real browbeating and attacking taking place!

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Posted By: Matt

Oh come now - my 80's glasses were at least as attractive. My wife and I have a rule that when looking through old pictures no wardrobe/glasses/hair comments are allowed on any 80s pictures.

My Trade/Sale Page

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Posted By: leon

Very cool cards. I didn't know you are left handed also. Lefties rule....

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Posted By: Rob D.

I'll relate a funny (I hope) story about those very glasses. In 1988 with El Paso (lower-right card), I was playing center field and a ball was hit straight over my head. There was no warning track (!), and I ran straight into the wall and got knocked out (hit the wall so hard my pinch of Copenhagen was still on the wall the next day). My glasses were mangled pretty bad: not broken, just bent in several different directions. The day after I got released from the hospital, I called a Lencrafters (or some store like it) and got a price of $100 to replace the frames (I thought I was being a good guy not asking for a price on a complete set of glasses).

I called the Brewers minor-league director to tell him how much the new frames would cost, and he replied that the club wasn't liable. I still remember his words: "Under workman's comp, we're required to pay for your medical care, and we'll do that. But you're on your own for the glasses."

So here I was, making $1,400 a month, and the Milwaukee Brewers organization is telling me to pound sand over a $100 set of frames -- which got bent up only because I ran into a freaking wall.

It was as that point that I decided if I ever got to the big leagues, I was going to screw the Brewers somehow.

So maybe that's why those glasses look so brutal.

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

That's a pathetic story. Seems like the Brewers haven't changed their ways since then.

On another note, I suspect if you had dropped those glasses from an airplane onto a train track between NYC and DC you could pick them up the next day and they'd still be in one piece.

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Did Selig own the Brewers then?

Don't we have a few other former minor leaguers in here? Didn't Frank (FKW) play minor league ball?

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Posted By: peter ullman

I just received my first ever tango eggs card...and I'm not sure how I feel about it...not as excited as I thought I'd be?! I'm still suspicious of them?

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

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Posted By: Bob

Peter- Really nice pickup and sharp card. Why suspicious? I think they are still popular and scarce although maybe a little of the luster has worn off since they were first discovered.
TBob