Wyoming Hello!
 

Just wanted to introduce myself and say hi. I have been "lurking" a few months now, (due to not properly activating my account. Thank you Leon for quickly getting me hooked up!) and have really enjoyed the informative conversations that take place here. As far as my collecting history and interest goes, I started collecting cards beginning with the 1988 Topps. Seems like yesterday! I took a hiatus for some of my college years, and upon resuming collecting (about the time eBay and Yahoo's auctions were taking off) I discovered the world of PSA and SGC and vintage cards. Over the last few years I have attempted the T206, T202, and '33 Goudey sets. Needless to say various things always seemed to come up in life and I had to start liquidating! However, despite all of the selling, I have continued to add to my Willie Keeler collection. Right now, in addition to adding Keelers, I am fascinated with Cracker Jacks and will post a couple of my newest acquisitions in the June pickup post. I have been to many of the world's art museums, but still consider vintage baseball cards to be some of the most beautiful art work in the world. There ya have it! Thanks again for all the great posts!

Welcome Luke. Glad the process to register wasn't too painful. Happy collecting and see ya' round the board...

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Thanks Leon. Great looking Keeler! One of my personal favorites along with the Ramly and the T3.

Are you his grandson? :confused:

Welcome
 

I'm biased to T206:)

peace

johnny

Welcome...I will tell you like most told me here take your time to buy nice looking cards....and enjoy the hobby!!!:)

Buying a few books (in my case a LOT of books) truly helps as well...find a few players you really like and pick up a few books about them. So far my favorite 2 books have been about Mickey Mantle and Hank Aaron.

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Welcome! Wyoming is a great state and Wee Willie is pretty cool too. You must be related to him somehow. Tell us the story.

Thanks guys. I am a distant relative to the great Willie "hit em where they ain't" Keeler. That makes collecting them pretty special. Adrian, yep have grown up reading books about Gehrig, Aaron, Ryan, Satchell, Jackie, The Splended Splinter, and Cobb, just to name a few. Books and a trip to Cooperstown definitely helps with learning the story behind the faces on the cardboard.

Yep, Wyoming is pretty great Dave. Wish I had some good Wee Willie stories but unfortunately once my family homesteaded out west they lost track of a majority of the east coast roots. Seeing his HOF plaque in Cooperstown was awesome :-)

T206 Keeler SC 350 Factory 25
 

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Seems like the 350's are somewhat more difficult to find than the 150's.

Welcome aboard!

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Welcome to the forum, Luke! I look forward to seeing your Keeler additions.

Welcome aboard Luke!

Welcome Luke and enjoy!

Ricky Y

Wyoming Welcome
 

Howdy Luke,

I'm a fellow Wyomingite - grew up in Thermopolis, went to UW in Laramie, and taught school in Guernsey. Then I left for AZ for a year, then on to Dallas for the last 16 years, where I have worked for Beckett Grading Services. What town/area are you from?

I've been trying to branch out my pre-war collection beyond Gehrig and Ruth, and an starting to gather a decent amount of T206 and other brands/sets of HOFer cards, especially Walter Johnson. I figured I needed a pitcher to collect, too, and he wasn't too shabby!

Welcome,
Mark Anderson

NM
 

Ha! Never mind my question - I've never once noticed that the area we are from is listed on the message, so I just saw you are from Casper. I have 3 best friends since middle school who are still my best buds (and all of them were into cards at one point). Funny enough, besides one being in Thermopolis still, the other two are moving to Casper this month. One just finished Residency here in Texas and now is a doctor at a medical clinic in Casper. The other one was just governor-appointed to District Judge in Casper this month!

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Nice card Jay! I have the T3 with the Turkey Red back but I need to add the checklist back one of these days.

Thanks Bill. I will have to start a Keeler thread with my cards and hopefully get a few board members to post theirs as well.

Hi Mark. Small world! I was born in Thermop. My dad worked for the USGS in Worland through the 70s while mom was teaching at Lucerne and Thermopolis. We then moved to Newcastle. Gehrig is my all time favorite.

Wow! Very small world. I never meet people from Thermopolis, especially collectors. Yep, I went to Lucerne through grade 6. Gehrig is also my all time favorite. Hard to collect him on no budget, but I can often trade other stuff and eventually get a card or other ephemera of him every month or so.

Lander
 

I was born in Lander - spent a lot of time in the Star Plunge in Thermop - good times!

Welcome !!

Welcome!!! You will find a tremendous amount of knowledge and expertise here... Here is my best Wee Willie!!! Enjoy!!!

Tim

Nice! I like Lander a lot. We would always swim at the TePee, never did at the Star Plunge though.

greetings and salutations!

Hmmm.... Not sure that I could swim at a place called "tePee":)

Yeah... that is a separate story in itself! :D

My only Keeler
 

Welcome to the best vintage baseball site.

newbie
 

welcome aboard the board!!!
all the best,
barry

Wow Jeremy, that is a beauty. Haven't seen it before. Thanks for sharing!

TeePee
 

Our choice was always TeePee Pools and we would buy yearly family passes. For the uninitiated, we aren't talking about regular pools. These are all pools from the world's largest mineral hot spring. So right behind the pools is a miniature version of Yellowstone. There is also a place called the Fountain of Youth as the Indians (Shoshone?) who lived there thought the mineral water was healing.

Basically, in the old days, TeePee catered to a more mature crowd who wanted to soak, while the Star Plunge had all the big slides and such to attract the kids.

Then there was one other pool that was more of a free senior citizen's very basic soaking pool. Not really comparable to the others.

If you go to this site, you will see the TeePee setup - wait for the inside pictures of the wood inside, like a lodge.

http://www.tepeepools.com/


On another note, Tim - that Willie T206 looks undergraded - is there anything on the back? The front looks better than a 7. Nice card!