Card HOF nominations

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Posted By: jay behrens 

Time for a new round of nominations for the Vintage Baseball Card HOF. If possible, please attach a picture of the card/s you are nonimating. The catagories are 19th Century, Tobacco, early candy and Misc sets. Here is a link to the site so the new people can see what cards are already in http://webpages.charter.net/sabrjay

Obviously, I'm nominating the e92 Nadja Oakes for the caramel catagory.


19th Century - n162 Anson

Misc - Zeenut Fatty Arbuckle

Tobacco - t205 Joss

I'll let the nominations run for 2 weeks, or until nominations stop for a few days if this happens before the 2 weeks are up, and then move on to the actual voting.

Jay

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Posted By: Ben

19th century: n172 Ewing w/mascot, 4BH Kelly

Tobacco: t227 Cobb

Candy: CJ Joe Jax

misc: 33 Goudey Ruth #181


And Jay, if I have to see that freakin' Nadja Oakes one more time, I'm going to explode

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Posted By: Keith O'Leary

a classic 19th century look and pose



N28 Kelly

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Posted By: three25hits

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Posted By: Jay Miller

19th century--Ewing with Mascot N172, Whitney with dog N172, Ewing Kalamazoo Bat, Radbourn portrait(four possibilities)

Candy-T206 Keeler batting

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Posted By: TBob

Candy- (Tie) E94 Evers with violet background and E98 Matty with red background.
Tobacco- T205 Wallace with cap.
M cards- M116 Sporting Life Matty blue.

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Posted By: T206 Collector

There's only one Christy
That I know at all
One Christy that I ever saw
He's the one who discovered
The fade away ball
And he pitches for Muggsy McGraw

From the Library of Congress' exhaustive vintage card website:

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?bbcards:95:./temp/~ammem_Ykb0::

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Posted By: T206 Collector

Those two little colons at the end of the link above need to be in the URL title.

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Posted By: jay behrens

Bumping this back tot he top. If there aren't anymore nominations, then we will start the vote soon.

Jay

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Posted By: Mike Williams

Candy (Tie) - E93/94/98 Cobb (Stretching Out) or E94 Lajoie
Tobacco - T205 Mathewson
19th Cent. - N162 Keefe

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Posted By: John(z28jd)

The cards nominated for the original class that didnt win either vote so far are:

T cards: T204 Johnson....T206 Johnson,port and Keeler,batting....T205 Cobb....T202 Cobb/Jennings..... T4 Weaver....T3 Speaker.....T227 Cobb

N cards: N162 Anson,Kelly....Old Judge Ewing/mascot,Delahanty.....4 base hits Kelly

E cards:E90 Oakes,Wagner...CJ Mathewson,Jackson....E107 Wagner....E300 Plow Candy Cobb

others: M101-5 Ruth....Alleghany Mathewson....Delong Gehrig....33 Goudey Lajoie,Gehringer,Foxx,Ruth #181....D304 Cobb

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Posted By: jay behrens

Just a side note. I'd really like see this develope as the best looking cards, not just a bunch of nice cards of HOfers. Pretty much everyone and his brother knows what the key cards from the major sets looks like and many look very good, but I want people to be able to see cards other than what you normally see all the time auction catalogues and price books. I want to see the BEST looking cards, no matter who is on them. Not a bunch of nice cards with recognizable names on them.

This shouldn't be too hard since most of here collect sets and should have plenty of commons to search thru too.

But, if the votes say that you want a bunch of cards of HOFers, then that's the route it will go.

Jay

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Posted By: jay behrens

the Hankron memorial add on post.

Think of it like the real HOF. Ignore the name on the card and look at the picture. Would you still want that picture grouped with a bunch of other cards that are considered the best ever? It would be a very easy to set up a special area for the significant and key cards to each set.

I know you all don't believe that the best looking cards all belong to HOFers. I'd like the mantra of teh process be, "would I still pick this card if I didn't know the player?"

Jay

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Posted By: Brian Weisner

Hi Jay,
Here are a few of my favorite T206's, some commons and a few hofers:

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Posted By: Patrick McMenemy

My HOF Picks:

19TH CENTURY: BUCK EWING N167
TOBACCO: RED KLEINOW T3
E-CARD: GIBSON E-90-2
MISC CARD: GIBSON W-600

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Posted By: jay behrens

I take it you have a fetish for masked men wearing leather gloves that like to play with a bat and balls :p

Jay

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Posted By: Patrick McMenemy

Jay, You "catch" on quickly!

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Posted By: leon

I nominate any of the, other than brown, versions of this series, E221.....it oozes vintage....

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Posted By: brian p

In the spirit of providing some off the beaten track alternatives (somewhat like the guy who election after election keeps running for office, even though he doesn't have a shot in hell of winning):

1910 Obak Murphy, Los Angeles--a classic Obak vibrant sky backdrop

T206 Leifield (pitching)--the Christy Mathewson of all common T206's

W503 Heinie Groh--a super sharp full body action batting shot

1911 Zeenut Buck Weaver--the card with the 'tude'

1933 Goudey #142 Paul Richards--a very interesting study of a diminishing angle perspective


To victory!

Brian

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Posted By: Julie

Take the FBH Kelly. It is a gorgeous card, but part of it's gorgeousness is that it's Kelly--strikingly handsome, a fine (but hardly the greatest!) player of his time, loved by absolutely everyone, who died because he fell asleep in the snow in an alchoholic stupor.

On the other hand, Leon's nomination...yeah. Great card (love the purle background!)

I'll renominate the Kelly FBH as 19th century card.
T: T3 Speaker
E: CJ Branch Rickey
Misc: 1936 World Wide Gum (Canadian Goudey) Gehrig

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Posted By: Jimmy Scott Elkins

19th Cent. - N370 Lone Jack Comiskey
E - E93, 94, 98 Cobb
T - T206 Powers
Misc. - T206 Oberlin

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Posted By: Brian H.

Jay - I know you are trying to discourage cards of HOFers etc. but I still feel I should nominate:

N172 OJ -- Ewing & Mascott, Long John Riley & Nick Nicol.

T205 Addie Joss (Memorial card issued after his death)

T202 Cobb/Jennings with the famous Conlan photo of Cobb "sliding"; and

1953 Bowman Color Pee Wee Reese

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Posted By: Rhett

I gotta nominate the N173 Old Judge Cabinet Radbourn Black Mount Cabinet with the obscene jesture that was in the Halper auction.

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Posted By: leonl

and for Scotty I would think you would nominate the N172 Brownie pose too.....don't think Kelly FBH made it last time so he'll be my nomination.....what a pose
(ya'll knew it was coming )

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Posted By: jay behrens

I am not asking people to pick cards from a vacuum. What am doing is asking them to look beyond the HOFers and key cards to sets. Yes, some of those cards are gorgeous, but there are as many or more cards of common players that look as good or better.

I would like to see the card HOF become a place were people can see more than the cards that always get highlighted in auction catalogues. And you'll get no arguement from me about how gorgeous the Kelly 4BH is. I have been in love with card since I first saw it in 1981 and learned that it was harder to find for sale than a Wagner

Jay

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Posted By: petecld

Posting this for Julie:

Several people have nominated this card, and it was nominated before (not MY personal choice).




BTW - Leon - NICE cards!!!

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Posted By: Julie

To avoid further confusion: My Old Judge Ewing and Mascot, my comment (above picture), Pete's name and comment BELOW picture. Gram...(negative word). Thank you, Pete!

Gotta learn how to post pics on website...

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Posted By: brian p

Here are 4 of the 5 cards I nominated for consideration in the Baseball Card HOF--1910 Obak of Murphy, Los Angeles, T206 of Liefield, pitching, W503 of Heinie Groh, and 1933 Goudey of Paul Richards. The missing one is the 1911 Zeenut of Buck Weaver, but you probably can check out the one that Leon recently sold on ebay.

Brian