T210 Old Mill "Mystery" Players

[frankbmd]

Roy Ellam first played for Nashville, six years after his T206 card was produced

Five years ago I raised a similar query, which raised some Net54 dander.

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=145356

[Vintagecatcher]

Frank,

Don't worry about the dander...your posts are "head & shoulders" above the rest.

Happy Holidays!

Patrick

[insidethewrapper]

The Feb 13th, 1909 issue of The Sporting Life indicated that Bryant Spicer signed with Portsmouth of the Virginia League.

[Michael Peich]

Patrick--Great dander response!

Frank--Once again, using the example of Foley White, it's entirely possible that Ellam was with Nashville before the season began, and after photos were taken for the cards. But he may have been cut/quit and then signed with Birmingham. Once again, there was tremendous player movement during this era.

If you're interested I can tell you the story of one of the rarest t209-2 cards, Steinbach, who started the season with Goldsboro, and then abruptly quit and left the team to return home, this after the season had just begun. His card is scarce because I suspect no one saved it because he left the team. For years it was thought his card didn't exist until the Pelaez collection was offered by REA, containing a copy of Steinbach's t209.

The other piece to remember is that record keeping, both by the teams, AND by the card manufacturers was not the precise, factually based system we expect. This era was, at times, post-truth.

Cheers, Mike

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

anyone ever figure out who "Collins" from Columbia is? Done a decent amount of digging and have come up dry. There are, of course, a number of Collins who played in the minors in the time period but nobody I can link to Columbia and I checked their roster for several years on either side of 1910.

[CardPadre]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

anyone ever figure out who "Collins" from Columbia is? Done a decent amount of digging and have come up dry. There are, of course, a number of Collins who played in the minors in the time period but nobody I can link to Columbia and I checked their roster for several years on either side of 1910.

Maybe Joe Collins, a pitcher, who looks to have arrived April 1, 1910 and was seemingly shown the exit on May 10, 1910 after being “treated….cruelly” by the Columbus Foxes in a May 5th game?

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Damn, that's well done! Thanks!

Originally Posted by CardPadre

Maybe Joe Collins, a pitcher, who looks to have arrived April 1, 1910 and was seemingly shown the exit on May 10, 1910 after being “treated….cruelly” by the Columbus Foxes in a May 5th game?