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none of the three contestants on Jeopardy tonight could identify the person depicted on a T206 Wagner. I was a bit surprised. I wonder if Mantle would have caused the same lack of response? At least it was a 2000. question....
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none of the three contestants on Jeopardy tonight could identify the person depicted on a T206 Wagner. I was a bit surprised. I wonder if Mantle would have caused the same lack of response? At least it was a 2000. question....
I really doubt a 52 Mantle would of had any better response. In reality card collecting is done by a very small percentage of people.
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I really doubt a 52 Mantle would of had any better response. In reality card collecting is done by a very small percentage of people.
I think the chances of Mantle being identified are far greater
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I don’t find that surprising at all. In fact I would have been shocked if more than 1 of the contestants knew it. You can walk down any street in any city in America and ask 100 people, and I will bet you that no more than 20 people will know, if that many.
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I don’t find that surprising at all. In fact I would have been shocked if more than 1 of the contestants knew it. You can walk down any street in any city in America and ask 1000 people, and I will bet you that no more than 2 people will know, if that many.

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I fixed that for you.
Agree -

I think a decent amount (maybe 10%-20%) of people are aware of that card in the sense that they know there's some rare baseball card they've seen in the news before. But few could probably pick it out of a lineup and practically none could tell you the name of the player.
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Heck, one of the questions on the show was something like "Barry Bonds broke this man's career home run record, and the first response was "Who is Babe Ruth?"

Then another question was about the record 56 game hitting streak, and they even showed a picture of Joe DiMaggio! The first response to this one (not from the same contestant as the first one) was also "Who is Babe Ruth?"

After those two, I'm not surprised at all that none of the three contestants knew of Honus Wagner.


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I really doubt a 52 Mantle would of had any better response. In reality card collecting is done by a very small percentage of people.
I concur. Card collecting really isn't a huge market nowadays. We may think it is...
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What was the answer? Did they show the card? Certainly Trebek didn't say "The person depicted on the t206 Wagner."
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What was the answer? Did they show the card? Certainly Trebek didn't say "The person depicted on the t206 Wagner."


..he only does that on "Celebrity Jeopardy" on Saturday Night Live.....the answer would inevitably be ' Who is Turd Ferguson?' or "your mother, TREBECK!"

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I'm guessing about 1 in a 1000 could identify the man in this picture:
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For the last time the category is therapists Bob.
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I'm guessing about 1 in a 1000 could identify the man in this picture:

There are around 250 million people in the US that are 16 years of age or older. Do you really think there are 250,000 who know who Walter Johnson is?
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I'm guessing about 1 in a 1000 could identify the man in this picture:
I wouldn't be surprised if many purely modern collectors and followers of the game wouldn't even know who that is. I collect some modern and some of those guys seem surprised that the game existed prior to 1950.

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Watched a show recently where a guy filmed himself asking young Americans on a beach questions like...

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The answers were painful to hear.

Seriously, it breaks your heart...

Is anyone really surprised about a 100 year old baseball card? If so, enjoy that nice comfy bubble you live in.

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I'm guessing about 1 in a 1000 could identify the man in this picture:
There is no way that many know who that is. I have been collecting for close to 30 years and had no idea who it was. Maybe 1 in 1000 card collectors know who it is.
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I wonder if even the majority of major league players now in 2016 know who that is.
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If it's any consolation I don't know who they are...
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There are around 250 million people in the US that are 16 years of age or older. Do you really think there are 250,000 who know who Walter Johnson is?
Absolutely. I'm guessing at least 100 million would recognize it as a picture of an old baseball player. You'd have a lot more people guessing Ruth, Gehrig, Cobb, and DiMaggio than getting it right; but he's the single greatest pitcher in the history of the game after all, so 250,000 seems about right to me. I grew up in New Orleans. We've got about 400,000 people there. Surely there are at least a few hundred old-timers in the entire city who would take one look at that photo and say, "Well that's Walter Johnson of course. Why do you ask?" And that's not even a baseball city. You'd do much better in St. Louis or Boston. And of course there are hundreds of other cities, to say nothing of the suburbs and the countryside.

Among baseball card collectors, the 1 in 1000 number doesn't seem plausible. I think about 80% of pre-war collectors would know, maybe 20% of the Topps era collectors would know (or at least guess correctly), and then maybe 1% of the modern card collectors. In total, I'd guess 5-10% of all baseball card collectors, not 0.1%.
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If it's any consolation I don't know who they are...
If it's any consolation, I knew instantly that was Walter Johnson, THE BIG TRAIN. The consolation is furthered by the fact I cannot identily one single 2016 MLB player by their picture in uniform today.

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If it's any consolation, I knew instantly that was Walter Johnson, THE BIG TRAIN. The consolation is furthered by the fact I cannot identily one single 2016 MLB player by their picture in uniform today.

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Behind the Right Centerfield wall at Camden Yards, the Orioles have Bronze statues of Brooks and Frank, Earl and Jim Palmer. Palmer does color for the Oriole broadcasts on MASN. He was out there doing a pre-game piece on Boog Powell's BBQ. A woman was taking pictures of the statues. When she got to Palmer's, Jim walked over, raised his leg to mimic the statue of him in his wind-up and........The lady asked him to please move out of her shot...She had no clue who he was.........
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Absolutely. I'm guessing at least 100 million would recognize it as a picture of an old baseball player. You'd have a lot more people guessing Ruth, Gehrig, Cobb, and DiMaggio than getting it right; but he's the single greatest pitcher in the history of the game after all, so 250,000 seems about right to me. I grew up in New Orleans. We've got about 400,000 people there. Surely there are at least a few hundred old-timers in the entire city who would take one look at that photo and say, "Well that's Walter Johnson of course. Why do you ask?" And that's not even a baseball city. You'd do much better in St. Louis or Boston. And of course there are hundreds of other cities, to say nothing of the suburbs and the countryside.



Among baseball card collectors, the 1 in 1000 number doesn't seem plausible. I think about 80% of pre-war collectors would know, maybe 20% of the Topps era collectors would know (or at least guess correctly), and then maybe 1% of the modern card collectors. In total, I'd guess 5-10% of all baseball card collectors, not 0.1%.

I wish all of this were true, I really do. I agree that 80% of pre-war collectors would know Walter Johnson. It might even be 90-95%. The rest is wishful thinking.
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Behind the Right Centerfield wall at Camden Yards, the Orioles have Bronze statues of Brooks and Frank, Earl and Jim Palmer. Palmer does color for the Oriole broadcasts on MASN. He was out there doing a pre-game piece on Boog Powell's BBQ. A woman was taking pictures of the statues. When she got to Palmer's, Jim walked over, raised his leg to mimic the statue of him in his wind-up and........The lady asked him to please move out of her shot...She had no clue who he was.........
She thought he was raising his leg for another reason.
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