What Card is your White Whale?

[fkm_bky]

White whale #1 - T206 Herzog Boston w Uzit back. 1 exists.

White whale #2 - T206 Green Cobb. Plenty available but my pockets aren’t that deep yet. Building towards it though.

Bill

[Casey2296]

Current white whales include:
Red Cross back
HM Taylor Cobb
Rare E-card backs
Bender white cap T216 mild & sweet, extra mild, Mino, and Mello.

The bigger issue is outfitting my Whaling Ship with plenty of harpoons when these unicorns appear.

[atx840]

I was very fortunate to have landed one of my whales earlier this year. The other would be a clean 150 series T206 Plank.

[benge610]

Originally Posted by Casey2296

Current white whales include:
Red Cross back
HM Taylor Cobb
Rare E-card backs
Bender white cap T216 mild & sweet, extra mild, Mino, and Mello.

The bigger issue is outfitting my Whaling Ship with plenty of harpoons when these unicorns appear.

Ha! Phil,
the closest I'll get to a Red Cross now;
gotta dig into the Actresses.

Back to your intent, I had a Griffith (bat) Red Cross years ago and sold it; I knew it was a toughie but thought more about $$$ back then; funny thing, I bought it at a larger show (prolly 30 yrs ago); asked to look at the dealer's stack of lesser condition tobacco cards that he had rubber banded together in a lower corner of his display case; skimming through and seeing the usuals (incl. HOFer's); tossed the Griffith out and handed the stack back while offering him $60 on the Griffith. Deal. Ah, ... the good ol' days.





Ben

"I love baseball history backstory; especially when it involves cards."

[Rich Falvo]

I'd really like to lay my hands on a T206 Jimmy Lavender Cycle back, but really any card I don't have for my Providence team set would be nice.

[Fred]

Metaphorically, I have MANY white whales, now.

In the past, the cards were available, tough to find but attainable. Now most are beyond my means and are truly "white whales" in that sense.

Oh yeah, by the way Leon, I'm still looking for a mini OJ. Probably going to put that on my white whale list now, also...

[paul]

My white whales are also out of budget. The heart of my collection is one card of every Hall of Famer from their playing days. I'd like to upgrade my T204 Burkett, which shows him as a minor league player manager at the end of his career, to a W600 or Just So, which both show him as a major league player.

I also need two Negro League Hall of Famers -- the Mallorquina Willie Foster and either the Punch or Cabanas Pete Hill. Come on Al, help me out!

[Steve D]

1909 Obak Howard (Los Angeles) without the frame on back.

It's the last card I need to finish my Obak Los Angeles team set for all three years.

Steve

[commishbob]

A CJ Bender. Not because the are particularly scarce but because I just can’t justify paying what it’s gonna take to land one


A 59 Bazooka Billy Pierce or Johnny Unitas would make a fine consolation whale

[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by paul

My white whales are also out of budget. The heart of my collection is one card of every Hall of Famer from their playing days. I'd like to upgrade my T204 Burkett, which shows him as a minor league player manager at the end of his career, to a W600 or Just So, which both show him as a major league player.

I also need two Negro League Hall of Famers -- the Mallorquina Willie Foster and either the Punch or Cabanas Pete Hill. Come on Al, help me out!

There've been several that I've owned and resold, but two I never got my paws on where Paul's avatar and the Honus Wagner from the same set.


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[Aj-hman]

2003 Topps 206 Honus Wagner American Beauty .jpg

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[DHogan]

N172 Old Judge

[Mozzie22]

T205 Wolter DRUM back. Know there are a few out there but doubt I'll ever own one.

[Vintagedeputy]

My white whale isn't a card. Its something that I don't even know if it exists....or what exactly I am looking for.

I feel that the 1909 Colgan's Chips Square Proofs were not meant to be distributed with the gum, but rather the square proofs were meant for a retailer to add to a store advertising poster weekly, or a book....or something other than being inserted in the gum tins. I have no idea if I am right or wrong, and I'm hoping that one day someone finds something that proves their intended purpose.

[raulus]

Since I just learned of its existence, it’s hard to call it a white whale, but this just came in the mail today.

Shout out to Fred McKie who helped me to learn of its very existence, and then also helped me to land it.