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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

For the past several years I've worked on a book (work a week, set aside for a month...), I might even try to publish it one day. It is about the players in T206. When I started collecting T206s, Sunny Jim Dygert was my second card, and I had not heard of him. Where could I find out about him??? Well, the encyclopedia's give you some stats. But who was he? And that gave me a title, borrowed loosely from the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid... "Who are these guys?" An example of what I'm doing is to preserve and pass on that "Wabash" George Mullin tended bar at the Elks Lodge in Wabash, Indiana after his playing days were over.

So here's what I'm after. Little tidbits about the lives and antics of players in T206. I have quite a bit. Specifically, what I'd like is to get you guys with Spalding Guides to look in the years from the mid 20s into the 40s, in the section called "Death Toll" I have guides for 1934 and 1938. In that section in each guide there are small paragraphs about passing players. If you could either scan and email, or photocopy and mail, great. I'll reimburse postage and photocopying, and I'm extremely patient. Ideally, email me with what you could send one day, and I'll email back and let you know whether I need that or if someone else has already sent it.

If/when the publication occurs, I'll acknowledge your help in print, for the readers to see.

Thanks, guys and gals! Frank. fwakefield1@comcast.net