Let's Talk (and Show) Baseball Game Cards...Fan Craze, Tom Barker, Polo Grounds, etc.

[rhettyeakley]

Leon, obviously you are correct in regards to the Allegheny set being the toughest 20th Century game set as there is one set known. With my statement above I was thinking along the lines of the ones being in the ACC... WG2 and on up (Fan Craze, Tom Barker, National Game, Walter Mails, S&S, Polo Grounds, etc.). I have also always wondered how one actually "played" the Allegheny cards, that would be interesting--but the WG1's had to have been a complex game as there is a lot going on on the front of those cards and I don't know we have ever found any instructions for it.
-Rhett

[Leon]

Originally Posted by rhettyeakley

Leon, obviously you are correct in regards to the Allegheny set being the toughest 20th Century game set as there is one set known. With my statement above I was thinking along the lines of the ones being in the ACC... WG2 and on up (Fan Craze, Tom Barker, National Game, Walter Mails, S&S, Polo Grounds, etc.). I have also always wondered how one actually "played" the Allegheny cards, that would be interesting--but the WG1's had to have been a complex game as there is a lot going on on the front of those cards and I don't know we have ever found any instructions for it.
-Rhett

Hey Rhett
I think we are on the same page however (don't ya' hate the "howevers"?) Burdick didn't list "WG" as game cards. Bert Sugar did that in the Sports Collectors Bible. That is where all of our "WG"s designations came from. Burdick classified them as playing cards "PL" and I don't believe he even mentioned any of the sets, specifically, that we are talking about. I like the game cards!!

[uffda51]

[bijoem]

Rhett - those are very cool.

Leon - that WaJo is awesome as is the Bonner.


Here is my only game card.

[triwak]

Some games, with a couple of modern ones (sorry):

[rhettyeakley]

Thanks Leon, I hadn't realized it was Sugar who had attached the Catalog designations to the WG cards.

[ethicsprof]

I have really enjoyed the Game Cards as part of my 'type' collecting.
after reading the great little article on billy owen i bought the Fan Craze card.
i also have the FanCraze of Theilman and Ritchey. i have the Polo Grounds of
Smokey Joe Wood, the national game of Evers and Chance, and the
Tom Barker's of Milan,Rucker,Meyers,Hoblitzel,O'Toole.

I particularly like my Polo Grounds Game with instructions,baseball diamond
at the base of the box,moving pieces,and score card with names of
buster and brewster in quite a competition.
I also have the beautiful forest green Fan Craze box which contained all the cards of the National League with Ritchey affixed to the bottom(outside).

great fun.
best,
barry

[drdduet]

Love then National Game and Tom Barker cards. I think the Joe Jax is his best image on a card. The Fan Craze portraits are great as well--Wagner is classic and they also include some 19th Century HOFers not easily found.