Your 1 Favorite Collectible - Page 2

Spike · #1 11-19-2025, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by nat

Tomorrow it will probably be something different, but for today it's this postcard. It pictures the University of Wisconsin team on their 1909 tour of Japan. The card was sent by one of the players to his friend back home in
Wisconsin. "Peck" Nash was the team's backup pitcher. He didn't appear in the game pictured on this card, but the team's main pitcher got injured during the following game and Nash pitched the rest of the tour.

What an amazing piece of history! Early US college baseball tours of Japan (UWash, UWis) made huge impact on their local game and current Japanese pro teams trace back to a prewar college league. Hope you never lose that card!

My own choice might be this Mantle RC that SGC said NO to. :-)

G1911 · #2 11-19-2025, 07:17 PM

Easy choice - a pre-production proof sheet cut into panels by subject, from T220 Silver. My favorite set, and can't get much cooler than something unique from ones favorite issue. There are only 3-4 known production copies of the Donovan and Jas. J. Corbett outside of the 8 proof cards of each here. Possibly the only T cards where there are more proofs than production cards!

Casey2296 · #3 11-18-2025, 05:21 PM

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This one. The only card my Dad and I ever bought together when i was a kid. Growing up in a working class family there wasn't any money for frivolous things like baseball cards. 1st and only time we ever went to a card shop (I'm sure I probably pestered him to no end to take me) we bought this. I think it was $175-$225 sticker price which was a ton of money back then. Knowing what I know now it was a big sacrifice for him to buy this card at that price.

Anyway, thanks Dad.
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Balticfox · #4 11-19-2025, 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Casey2296

This one. The only card my Dad and I ever bought together when i was a kid. Growing up in a working class family there wasn't any money for frivolous things like baseball cards. 1st and only time we ever went to a card shop (I'm sure I probably pestered him to no end to take me) we bought this. I think it was $175-$225 sticker price which was a ton of money back then. Knowing what I know now it was a big sacrifice for him to buy this card at that price.

Kudos to your dad for not passing out due to sticker shock! That's still a lot of money for a little piece of throwaway cardboard sold to little boys for less than a cent. I was lucky enough to grow up when four cards plus a sheet of wholesome delicious bubble gum cost only five cents and your father probably remembered basically the same.

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