I'm sick of all this damn money talk; let's have a virtual card show

brianp-beme · #1 04-15-2021, 09:19 PM

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Originally Posted by edjs

Nice D310 Chadbourne duo Ed, with both the gray (on right) and less common (I believe) green tint.

Brian

Fred · #2 04-15-2021, 10:39 PM

999

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Fred · #3 04-15-2021, 10:39 PM

This has got to be the fastest thread to 1000!

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familytoad · #4 04-15-2021, 10:56 PM

Gotta keep this Cardboard Eye Candy thread going!
It's a winner.

Howsa bout the Triples leader?

familytoad · #5 04-15-2021, 10:59 PM

Howsa bout the All-Time Doubles leader?

(I'm setting someone up at the net for a spike in the next two posts...)

GeoPoto · #6 04-16-2021, 07:08 AM

Here we find Kid Elberfeld settling under a major league pop-up. Most plays in baseball happen at break-neck speed: swing or take at 95 MPH; get to, gather, and gun to first to nip the runner; sprint down and catch the drive in the gap. They also often involve other players: hit the cut-off man; throw to first for the put-out; receive the ball and fire to second to nail a base-stealer. But the impossibly-high pop-up typically, quickly becomes one player's -- all the way.

But it takes several seconds to soar up, stop, and race down, twisted by invisible wind. Here, Elberfeld is alone, focused on what is clearly his play to make. In the back ground a storm appears to be brewing, tornado possibly. No other player can help him. And it takes time. I think it was Dmitri Young who was asked what he was thinking about as he tried to stay under a high foul pop-up behind first base. He said: "I kept asking myself where the circus music was coming from".

https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1618574796

molenick · #7 04-16-2021, 08:44 AM

George's write-ups are always interesting, thank you. Here is a T3 of Art Devlin. He played in an era that deflated his raw statistics, but by some modern measures he was as good or better than HOFers Kell, Traynor, and Lindstrom. At any rate, he was probably the best NL third baseman of the early 1900s and here he is in his last year with the Giants.

darwinbulldog · #8 04-16-2021, 11:58 AM

Bottomley

puckpaul · #9 04-20-2021, 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by familytoad

Howsa bout the All-Time Doubles leader?

(I'm setting someone up at the net for a spike in the next two posts...)

sweet, one of my favorite cards.

edjs · #10 04-20-2021, 05:24 PM

SD · #11 04-20-2021, 11:35 PM

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qed2190 · #12 04-17-2021, 12:41 PM

Some Reese's pieces

t213 · #13 04-17-2021, 12:53 PM

Someone lamented the lack of Crawfords in this thread, so here's mine

edjs · #14 04-19-2021, 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by t213

Someone lamented the lack of Crawfords in this thread, so here's mine

I�ll help you with that, even though I already posted the T215-1.

GeoPoto · #15 04-20-2021, 04:40 AM

Edward W. "Dorf" Ainsworth was born Edward Anshmedt. Catcher with the Washington Senators in 1910-1918. 707 hits and 22 home runs in 15 MLB seasons. His best season was 1919 with the Detroit Tigers as he posted a .354 OBP with 42 runs scored and 35 RBI's in 419 plate appearances. He finished his MLB career with the New York Giants in 1924. He later managed the Rockford Peaches in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.

Ainsmith is one of five MLB players who were born in Russia. He was Walter Johnson's personal catcher for 8 seasons -- he caught 48 of Walter's 110 shutouts.

From Ainsmith's SABR biography: After the 1924 season, he organized a tour of ballplayers to Japan where they played a number of successful exhibition games. Buoyed by that success, he decided to organize a tour of women players to the Far East next, partnering with Mary O'Gara, manager of the Philadelphia Bobbies, one of the most prominent female teams of the period, adding a few players to her core team. Eddie and his wife, Loretta, accompanied the team to Japan, as did former big league pitcher Earl Hamilton and his wife.

However, there was dissension on the team, as both O'Gara and Ainsmith wanted to be the manager, and players split into factions. Once in Japan, the ladies could not hold their own against the teams of Japanese men they faced, even with Ainsmith and Hamilton helping them on the field, and the trip turned into a financial disaster as crowds stayed away.

The initial promoters bailed out and the team moved on to Korea, where it split in half. Ainsmith and Hamilton convinced three of the better female players to stay with them and recruited four locals to complete the team, hoping to raise some money by arranging their own fixtures, as they did not have any money left to pay their return fare to the States.

For her part, O'Gara went back to Kobe with the rest of the squad and unsuccessfully asked the local U.S. Consulate to bring them home; she eventually convinced a couple of local expatriate businessmen to give them the money to return, but Ainsmith's group was left stranded. He found enough money to get himself and his wife home, but left behind the three young female players. When the girls' families in the States were finally able to raise the money, one of the players, Leona Kearns, a 17-year-old left-handed pitcher, was washed overboard and died when the Empress of Asia was hit by a huge wave when she was on the deck.

https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1618911262
https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1618911271

SD · #16 04-17-2021, 01:08 PM

It would be interesting to see if anyone else has found some of John's stamped cards.

Bill77 · #17 04-17-2021, 05:43 PM

E121

Casey2296 · #18 04-17-2021, 05:58 PM

Did someone say Crawford?
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qed2190 · #19 04-19-2021, 06:35 PM

Can't help myself I like Reese

Bill77 · #20 04-19-2021, 06:42 PM

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qed2190 · #21 04-20-2021, 03:06 PM

Couple of Ruth cards, went side ways again, don't know why it happens sometimes.

Exhibitman · #22 04-21-2021, 10:34 AM

brianp-beme · #23 04-21-2021, 02:45 PM

E90-2 American Caramel of Leach. I prefer providing large scans so as to not hide minor creasing, as is seen in the upper portion of this card.

Brian

SD · #24 04-21-2021, 04:41 PM

If he only had a W on his chest.

edjs · #25 04-16-2021, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by brianp-beme

Nice D310 Chadbourne duo Ed, with both the gray (on right) and less common (I believe) green tint.

Brian

If my experience holds true for others, of your gray/green group, the green are harder. Of the 24 cards found in both colors, I have 4 green and 33 gray (several duplicates, obviously).

Exhibitman · #26 04-17-2021, 10:34 AM

GeoPoto · #27 04-17-2021, 12:08 PM

Frank C. "Doc" Reisling. Pitcher for the Washington Senators in 1909-1910. 15 wins in 4 MLB seasons. He debuted with the Brooklyn Superbas in 1904-1905. He had a career ERA of 2.45 in 311.2 innings pitched. His one almost full season was his best and his last as he posted a 2.54 ERA on 191 innings pitched in 1910.

Doc Reisling pitched a little bit in MLB, mostly with the sub-.500 Washington team of 1910. The rest of the time between 1897 and 1915 found him playing and managing in the minor leagues. It was as a manager for Tecumseh in 1914, that he gave us a reason to remember him.

Because poor field conditions led to many rainouts and travel schedules made rescheduling missed games difficult, it was common for the total games played to differ between teams and for the pennant to hinge on winning percentage, not record. Whichever team had the best winning percentage at the close of the final day of the season, was the winner. Previously rained out games could be crowded into the last few days of the season, but the opposing team had to be available and teams (and players) were reluctant to travel just to make up games once their team was eliminated.

At the end of the 1914 season, with the pennant coming down to the last day, Doc managed to schedule (and win) a triple header which gave his team the best winning percentage. Alas for Doc and the Tecumseh team, the league president invalidated the third game, and they were denied the pennant. But you can't say they didn't try.

And, of course, Doc's 1909-10 stint with Washington, allowed him to leave us this card.

https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1618679207

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