t206 players, has anyone ever met a player?

Michael B · #1 02-03-2013, 05:33 PM

Hi All, I don't collect cards at all. The only ones I have are ones that are sent to me in the mail by Olympians. However, in a seemingly past life I collected baseball autographs in person and would go to the visiting team hotel in Boston. I would ocassionally go to Fenway for a game, though not often as I don't enjoy sitting there watching sports as I get bored. One of the times I went was for the Old-timers game in either 1984 or 1985, probably 1985. Joe Wood was at the game in a wheelchair. They introduced him and then brought him under the stands to go into the Red Sox locker room. I was standing there and had a few black and white photos of him pitching circa 1915, reprints of course. The people with him saw that I had them and told me to follow them. They took me into the locker room where he signed the photos for me. The only signatures he signed for the public that day. I want to think that it was 1985 as I recall thinking they were some of the last signatures he signed before passing away in July. So while I don't collect T-206's or other cards, I did meet one of the subjects in person.

wonkaticket · #2 02-03-2013, 06:31 PM

Leon has some great stories of playing with a lot of these guys he's very old.

benderbroeth · #3 02-03-2013, 06:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Michael B

Hi All, I don't collect cards at all. The only ones I have are ones that are sent to me in the mail by Olympians. However, in a seemingly past life I collected baseball autographs in person and would go to the visiting team hotel in Boston. I would ocassionally go to Fenway for a game, though not often as I don't enjoy sitting there watching sports as I get bored. One of the times I went was for the Old-timers game in either 1984 or 1985, probably 1985. Joe Wood was at the game in a wheelchair. They introduced him and then brought him under the stands to go into the Red Sox locker room. I was standing there and had a few black and white photos of him pitching circa 1915, reprints of course. The people with him saw that I had them and told me to follow them. They took me into the locker room where he signed the photos for me. The only signatures he signed for the public that day. I want to think that it was 1985 as I recall thinking there were some of the last signatures he signed before passing away in July. So while I don't collect T-206's or other cards, I did meet one of the subjects in person.

This is the point of the thread!! Awesome story!!!

Hot Springs Bathers · #4 02-03-2013, 07:07 PM

I wrote to Rube Marquard and Paddy Livingstone a couple of times each back in the 1970s after their addresses were posted in The Trader Speaks.

They always responded, sure wish I had gambled and sent a T206.

At the same time I was mailing around a photo of the 1927 Yankees, after I got two signatures including Joe Dugan I chickened out and just sent 3 x 5s to the few other survivors.

benderbroeth · #5 02-04-2013, 12:05 AM

Awesome stories

Exhibitman · #6 02-04-2013, 08:08 AM

When he was a teenager, my father once saw Babe Ruth walking down Park Avenue in NYC. Ruth nodded a hello to him but my father didn't get an autograph

though I'm sure the Babe would have been amenable.

Bridwell · #7 02-04-2013, 10:34 PM

When I was in elementary school, my older brother and I borrowed a Jack Spelling list of home addresses of ex-major leaguers. We wrote away to hundreds of players in 1971-1973. We got a Baseball Encyclopedia as a Christmas gift and studied the statistics. We wrote to the old-timers, mostly, thinking we could try and get the younger players later on. Stamps were 8 cents each and we never paid for an autograph. At least 1/3 of the players wrote back. As far as T206 players, I got autographs back from George McBride, Donie Bush, Larry Doyle, Davy Jones, Fred Snodgrass, Paddy Livingston and Rube Marquard. Sometimes the guys sent us a short note or a photo. It started me on the road to collecting other T206 players on 3x5 cards, government postcards or cuts. After auctions and trades, I have 100 different T206 players now.

Sean · #8 02-04-2013, 10:38 PM

That is a great story.

T206Collector · #9 02-05-2013, 09:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Bridwell

When I was in elementary school, my older brother and I borrowed a Jack Spelling list of home addresses of ex-major leaguers. We wrote away to hundreds of players in 1971-1973. We got a Baseball Encyclopedia as a Christmas gift and studied the statistics. We wrote to the old-timers, mostly, thinking we could try and get the younger players later on. Stamps were 8 cents each and we never paid for an autograph. At least 1/3 of the players wrote back. As far as T206 players, I got autographs back from George McBride, Donie Bush, Larry Doyle, Davy Jones, Fred Snodgrass, Paddy Livingston and Rube Marquard. Sometimes the guys sent us a short note or a photo. It started me on the road to collecting other T206 players on 3x5 cards, government postcards or cuts. After auctions and trades, I have 100 different T206 players now.

I've seen dozens of every one of those players on a signed T206 card -- but not Donie Bush, who is much much rarer on a T206. I have often wondered why that might be.

ynnek4 · #10 02-05-2013, 07:48 PM

Awesome!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bridwell

When I was in elementary school, my older brother and I borrowed a Jack Spelling list of home addresses of ex-major leaguers. We wrote away to hundreds of players in 1971-1973. We got a Baseball Encyclopedia as a Christmas gift and studied the statistics. We wrote to the old-timers, mostly, thinking we could try and get the younger players later on. Stamps were 8 cents each and we never paid for an autograph. At least 1/3 of the players wrote back. As far as T206 players, I got autographs back from George McBride, Donie Bush, Larry Doyle, Davy Jones, Fred Snodgrass, Paddy Livingston and Rube Marquard. Sometimes the guys sent us a short note or a photo. It started me on the road to collecting other T206 players on 3x5 cards, government postcards or cuts. After auctions and trades, I have 100 different T206 players now.

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