iggyman
02-23-2010, 08:27 AM
I realize that a somewhat similiar thread was started not too long ago (but jiminy-cricket it only had nine pics!!!). Lets see how many of Barkers old cards we can put together. He was a prolific "baseball card BACK" stamper/writer. Lets see yours....
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Here is some history on Buck straight out of George Vrecheks excellent OBC articles (http://www.oldbaseball.com/refs/barker/buckbarker.html)....
One of the idiosyncrasies that many people will mention is that Barker wrote on his baseball cards. Lionel Carter couldn’t imagine writing on a card. Bill Mastro pointed out though that at the time Barker collected cards they really were not worth that much, nickels for the most part. Barker was delighted to find a card that he needed. In order to keep track of how he got the card, he would write the name of the source on the back of the card in very light pencil along with the last two digits of the year the card was received. “Mastro 68” meant that this was a card Barker obtained in 1968 from Bill Mastro. Likewise when Barker sent his cards to others he assumed they’d like to know where the card came from (Buck Barker), sort of like personalizing a slabbed card holder today. Old cards will still turn up today with “Buck Barker” in light pencil on the reverse. When a player was traded to another team, Barker might also resort to updating the team name on the card in pencil.
Lovely Hobby on a Lovely Day...
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Here is some history on Buck straight out of George Vrecheks excellent OBC articles (http://www.oldbaseball.com/refs/barker/buckbarker.html)....
One of the idiosyncrasies that many people will mention is that Barker wrote on his baseball cards. Lionel Carter couldn’t imagine writing on a card. Bill Mastro pointed out though that at the time Barker collected cards they really were not worth that much, nickels for the most part. Barker was delighted to find a card that he needed. In order to keep track of how he got the card, he would write the name of the source on the back of the card in very light pencil along with the last two digits of the year the card was received. “Mastro 68” meant that this was a card Barker obtained in 1968 from Bill Mastro. Likewise when Barker sent his cards to others he assumed they’d like to know where the card came from (Buck Barker), sort of like personalizing a slabbed card holder today. Old cards will still turn up today with “Buck Barker” in light pencil on the reverse. When a player was traded to another team, Barker might also resort to updating the team name on the card in pencil.
Lovely Hobby on a Lovely Day...