The One That Got Away

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by Yoda

Larry Fritch was indeed the Godfather of the Joe Doyle variation. As the story goes, he discovered the Doyle "Nat'l" variation while going through a bunch of recently acquired T206's, knew he had something special and quietly began began to advertise in the hobby press offering to buy any and all Joe Doyle cards without mentioning what he highly suspected was a new variation. After buying multiple copies of the regular Doyle, another "National" was finally received and the legend was born.

My own personal story is a Joe Jackson Texas Tommy, which is too painful to relate.

How many "Joe Doyle - National" exist? Larry Fritsch actually allowed my father and I to handle one. I am new here, it is a 35 year old memory now, but does that sound like something Larry Fritsch would do? Or am I completely misremembering the event and "doyle"? Perhaps it was "Plank" or "Magie" he let us hold?