Who are the 5 toughest t206 southern leaguers?

[CMIZ5290]

I don't think this subject has been discussed for a while.....who do you think they are primarily in mid to high grade?

[tedzan]

In any grade....my top tough 5 are

Foster

Shaughnessy

Coles

Paige

Revelle


TED Z

[SetBuilder]

The Shag card is awesome; I've been after it since I started my monster quest. His portrait resembles a villainesque character from a cartoon series of some sort. Really grabs your attention more than most other cards in the set.

Where does Manion rank? I picked that one up the other day.

[GregMitch34]

Revelle doesn't show up as that rare at all in PSA pop report--for what it's worth.

[BleedinBlue]

McCauley and Violet were the last SL cards I needed. Not the toughest to find but finding them in the grade I wanted (psa 3-4, sgc 40-50) for the price I wanted to pay took a long time.

[esd10]

my thought is if you can find them on ebay they are not that rare maybe tough but not rare in low grades

[jp1216]

I'm no expert (but it did stay at a .....)
Paige and Ryan were my last two. I picked up Shag and Foster early on. Sid Smith was near the end also - just because it looks too much like Ritter.

[DixieBaseball]

I don't think any of the T206 SLer's would be considered rare. Perhaps some of the Hindu SLer's might be in that range depending on your definition of rare. There are a handful of Sler's that are tougher to find for sure, but I would say they are probably barely scarce at best, with Piedmont/OM backs.

2 cents

[frankbmd]

I don't equate tough and rare. This is a tough thread, not a rare thread.

The last five that I acquired were

Sid Smith (actually Syd)
Woodie Thornton
Frank Shaughnessy
Carlos Smith
George Paige

Interestingly the first one I acquired was Helm, who in my opinion is seen much less frequently than some of the others. Therefore order of acquisition may well be totally meaningless.

[pgellis]

My Top 5 (in no particular order):

Ed Foster
Perry Lipe
J. Ross Helm
Gordon Hickman
Roy Ellam

It's tough to limit it to just 5. I don't think Shaughnessy is that tough, but he is very expensive, well sought after and you will need to pay for him, but he is available.

[tedzan]

Shaughnessy is tougher than most T206 Southern Leaguer's simply because of "supply vs demand". Besides T206 collectors,
Frank has a following with Canadian collectors.

Frank is in the Canadian BB and FB Hall of Fames and the McGill Univ. Sports HOF.

TED Z