tobacco card ethics?

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Posted By: barry arnold

There's a McAleese 206 tolstoi on ebay (5209005675)with
the caption: 'played one season yet immoralized in T206 set.'
As an ethics fella, i couldn't help but smile and pass this on
to my vbc buddies.

all the best

barry arnold

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Posted By: jay behrens

At least he made it to the majors. There are a number of people immortalized in the t207 set, yet never spent a day a in the majors. Thankfully for me, I'm not interested in cards of players that never made it to the majors and most of these mythical major leaguers tend to be some of the toughest t207s to find.

Jay

My place is full of valuable, worthless junk.

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Posted By: identify7

I am assembling a grouping of players who made it to the majors, but did not get an opportunity to field, pitch or hit. It makes for an interesting presentation, I think.

One guy was a rookie two consecutive years without a chance - he then quit. Another appeared in over 100 games without a fielding, pitching nor hitting oppty.

There certainly are t207s, OJs and representatives from many sets. Some are "household names - well, not really - such as Moonlight Graham, Eddie Gaedel, and others.

Enuff of that, but it is fun, and the cards are not usually in high demand.

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Posted By: Glenn

Barry,

Very astute observation on your part. And it's quite an accomplishment for a man who played only one season. It took Pete Rose over a quarter century to become immoralized.

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Posted By: Hal Lewis

This demoralizes me.

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Posted By: Max Weder

Hal

Just as long as it doesn't demortalize you

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Posted By: Julie

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Posted By: barry arnold

great responses, VBC buddies.

helpful information, plays on words, and Julie's unique smiley
faces make it all worthwhile!

all the best

barry arnold

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Posted By: joe

gil,

I made a similar list last year of players — mine was guys who only appeared in one game for their entire careers and never got to bat. There were about 350 or so, as of 1988 — my Baseball Encyclopedia only went up that far. That's just field players, not pitchers. I was goingto write a book, but found out someone already did. I have the list on an Excel spreadsheet. I can e-mail it to you if you want.

joe