My personal T206 subset...

[Bridwell]

Hi Jamie,
Good idea for a collection! I grew up near Detroit, so I've collected a lot of Tiger players. The T207 set was issued in 1912. It contains a few Tiger players who are not in T206: Bauman, Covington, Drake, Gainor, Lively and Works. Those guys are likely to be on your spring training rosters once you've located them.

The T206 set was based on players from 1908-09. So quite a few players were different on the rosters by 1911-1912. I've enjoyed collecting T206's and T207's.

Here's an article I found about the 1914 Tigers Spring Training in Mississippi:

http://nighttraintodetroit.com/2014/...100-years-ago/

[brianp-beme]

Always fun to see all the different angles to collecting T206. I came across this excerpt from a book to seems to document Ty Cobb travelling to Louisiana in March of 1911 with his family for spring training:

https://books.google.com/books?id=MP...isiana&f=false

Good luck with your T206 quest!

Brian

[bnorth]

That is a nice way to collect, like said above there is no wrong way.

I done the local thing also. As part of a collection I donated to a local museum one of the cards was a T206 Bill Shipke. He played for and managed the local small town team in 1920.

[Jamie_h]

thanks for the nice words! and brian thank you!

[Jamie_h]

Ron thats good info! thanks!

[Jamie_h]

OK, so here is what I have so far:

1911 Detroit Tigers Roster, with an "X" next to the players I think have a T206.

Paddy Baumann
Donie Bush-X
Joe Casey
Pug Cavet
Ty Cobb -X (4 cards)
Tex Covington
Sam Crawford -X (2 poses)
Jim Delahanty
Bill Donovan-X (2 poses)
Delos Drake
Del Gainer
Davy Jones-X
Ed Lafitte
Chick Lathers
Jack Lively
Clarence Mitchell
George Moriarty-X
George Mullin-X (2 poses)
Jack Ness
Charley O'Leary-X (2 poses)
Biff Schaller
Boss Schmidt-X (2 poses)
Oscar Stanage-X
Ed Summers
Wiley Taylor
Guy Tutwiler
Ed Willett-X (2 poses)
Squanto Wilson
Ralph Works

For a total of 20 cards.

[t206fanatic]

Originally Posted by Jamie_h

OK, so here is what I have so far:

1911 Detroit Tigers Roster, with an "X" next to the players I think have a T206.

Paddy Baumann
Donie Bush-X
Joe Casey
Pug Cavet
Ty Cobb -X (4 cards)
Tex Covington
Sam Crawford -X (2 poses)
Jim Delahanty
Bill Donovan-X (2 poses)
Delos Drake
Del Gainer
Davy Jones-X
Ed Lafitte
Chick Lathers
Jack Lively
Clarence Mitchell
George Moriarty-X
George Mullin-X (2 poses)
Jack Ness
Charley O'Leary-X (2 poses)
Biff Schaller
Boss Schmidt-X (2 poses)
Oscar Stanage-X
Ed Summers
Wiley Taylor
Guy Tutwiler
Ed Willett-X (2 poses)
Squanto Wilson
Ralph Works

For a total of 20 cards.

Ed Summers has a card in the Monster

[brianp-beme]

As mentioned, Ed Summers has a T206 card, which is shown below.

Jim Delahanty has a T206 card, designating him with Washington.

And Jim Delehanty also has a T205 card, showing him with the Tigers.

So with the T207 cards Ron mentioned, you can have a nice type collection of the three most prominent tobacco issues of the era as well, and a good chunk of the Tigers 1911 roster.

Brian (cards not mine)