N526 Number 7 origins

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Posted By: leon

Picked this up from Mark Macrae recently. It gives the maker's of N526's initials, that are on the cards, their full name.....I think it's neat and thought I would mention that this is part of the fun of collecting for me. ....Learning new stuff. It is Howard W. Spurr & Co. (H.W.S. & Co.) which is on the cards reverses. I'd be interested in seeing any other items that give helpful info on our cards.....

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Posted By: leon

so NO ONE has any info from related items pertaining to our cards? Or maybe I didn't take a shower and stink so no one wants to be around me? At least I tried to add something positive to the board instead of my constant censoring regards

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Posted By: John

That is really cool Leon, I love this kind of stuff. Neat find.

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Posted By: davidcycleback

Leon, the best I can do is say that I have a letter from Spalding Sporting Goods to Pete Maravhich's lawyer asking for a slide of Pete that they could use to make Pete's Spalding poster (Spalding issued NBA poster sets).

I also have the credit card receipt carbon copy from Maravich's visit to a car wash. I'd upload a scan of it, but suspect that it wouldn't add much to the discussions of this board.

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Posted By: leon

One time, about 13 years ago, one of the guys in my office found a cancelled Jose Conseco paycheck. It was for 2 weeks, I believe, and was about 200k. We ogled it for a while....

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Posted By: john/z28jd

Leon,i have the original bat Shooty Babbitt used on his 1982 donruss baseball card.If you look closely you can see the mark on the bat from the foul ball that came into the crowd and hit a little boy in the head and ruined his spelling for the rest of his life....and that little boy was Jay Behrens,and now you know the rest of the story


PS I'll put a scan of the bat in this thread tomorrow for visual effect

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Posted By: davidcycleback

I have a big box of Maravich documents, mostly boring accounting/income stuff. Most interesting are his lawyer's court document from two of Maravich's arrests I think from while he was still a player-- from what I read in the the documents (that was a disclaimer) both involved drinking, in one he drove a car into a parked car at night and the other he got into a brawl.

I sold on eBay a 1970s letter from the NBA asking Maravich for payment for his numerous on the court fines. Stapled to the letter was copies of the offended referees' official forms in which they handwrote what he did and when he did it.

About a month or so after I aquired these documents, I was at a dinner and was introduced to a woman who was a tax lawyer at one of those big accounting firms. I had no idea how to break the ice with a tax laywer, so naturally I mentioned my Pete Maravich tax documents and audit stuff (That's known as hit or miss conversation topic). She had no idea who Maravich was but it turned out that she (and likely others at the firm) did the taxes for the Seattle Supersonics management/owners. Though she wouldn't say who he/she was, she said she had a problem doing the taxes for one client. The problem was that his annual income had too many digits to fit one of the form. There literally weren't enough spaces. She said it's depressing when the margin of error in client's income is larger than her income.

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Posted By: Elliot

David, next time invite her to see your etchings.

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Posted By: davidcycleback

If a pretty woman is an tax lawyer I talk about my Pete Maravich tax forms. If she's a basetball fan I talk about my Pete Maravich tax forms. If she's neither, I'm at a loss.