E90-1, The Kraken (AKA The E-Monster) - post your collection progress

[familytoad]

Hopefully this collaboration thread , sharing your progress on collecting the greatest Caramel set will be inspired by the official announcement of the Seattle NHL franchise.
They will be known as The Kraken.

And we helped, I'm sure of it!

[brianp-beme]

Thanks Brian for pointing out this great E90-1 news! I started this thread in November of 2017, and the 2018 Post It note, as mentioned in this article

https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/...-became-kraken

makes if fairly clear that the world/Seattle/hockey nuts were following this thread.

Brian (they should have called the team the E-Monsters)

[cammb]

Some of these so called commons are near impossible to find

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by cammb

Debentures staked on this set. Some of these so called commons are near impossible to find

Below is a list of the 1 point tougher commons/more popular Hof'ers that I believe could have been identified as 2 point cards, based upon their scarcity and popularity.

The list was culled from this post about E90-1 perceived scarcities over the years in another thread:

https://www.net54baseball.com/showth...96#post1978796

2 Frank Baker
2 Harry Bemis
2 Mordecai Brown
2 Wally Clement
2 Eddie Collins
2 Sam Crawford
2 George Davis
2 Ray Demmitt
2 Addie Joss (portrait)
2 Willie Keeler (portrait - pink)
2 Paddy O'Connor
2 Johhny Seigle
2 Jimmy Sheckard
2 Vic Willis

Brian

[cammb]

I would add Pastorius

[RCMcKenzie]

I thought y'all were joking. They named their team after this thread, or they really liked the 1981 1 star movie, "Clash of the Titans". Here's an e90-1 Fromme that I have. A tougher card, with a print anomaly going on on the left border.

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by RCMcKenzie

I thought y'all were joking. They named their team after this thread, or they really liked the 1981 1 star movie, "Clash of the Titans". Here's an e90-1 Fromme that I have. A tougher card, with a print anomaly going on on the left border.

Cool card...I don't remember ever seeing another border line like that in any set. Looks like that left border was taking evasive action against a Kraken swipe!

Brian

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

Below is a list of the 1 point tougher commons/more popular Hof'ers that I believe could have been identified as 2 point cards, based upon their scarcity and popularity.

The list was culled from this post about E90-1 perceived scarcities over the years in another thread:

https://www.net54baseball.com/showth...96#post1978796

2 Frank Baker
2 Harry Bemis
2 Mordecai Brown
2 Wally Clement
2 Eddie Collins
2 Sam Crawford
2 George Davis
2 Ray Demmitt
2 Addie Joss (portrait)
2 Willie Keeler (portrait - pink)
2 Paddy O'Connor
2 Johhny Seigle
2 Jimmy Sheckard
2 Vic Willis

Brian

The above was from post 316 on this thread. So Jon's two E90-1 cards (not a bad two-only card combo) would qualify under this revolutionary revision scheme for 3 Kraken points, but alas the official tally shall instead be 2. I think you should start thinking about which card to add to make it an E-Monster trio.

Brian

[Yoda]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

The above was from post 316 on this thread. So Jon's two E90-1 cards (not a bad two-only card combo) would qualify under this revolutionary revision scheme for 3 Kraken points, but alas the official tally shall instead be 2. I think you should start thinking about which card to add to make it an E-Monster trio.

Brian

Brian, isn't the Keeler red portrait considered scarcer and more valuable than the pink? Tks John

[brianp-beme]

Originally Posted by Yoda

Brian, isn't the Keeler red portrait considered scarcer and more valuable than the pink? Tks John

Hi John, you are correct, the Keeler red portrait is much more difficult than the Keeler pink portrait. In Kraken land, the red is worth 5, and the pink 1. My potential (but not implemented) revision I quoted above would have bumped the pink version to 2, because Keeler is a more popular hall of famer. But pink Keeler anguishly languishes at 1.

Brian