Beating a path down the collecting hole
This Matty. Like Pete, this was approximately $2.00 in 1981, and I picked it up, along with 4 other 1910 era Hall of Famers, at the first table of the first show I ever went too, and blew all 11 dollars I had to spend. They were my first vintage cards, all in lower condition (the others are T206 Walter Johnson pitching, T205 Zack Wheat Broadleaf...at that time it was just another back, T205 Roger Bresnahan, and E98 Cy Young). The Mathewson is the one in lowest condition, but it is the one that still catches my eye and the card that helped lead me down the collecting hole of appreciating the messed up but not destroyed beater.
Because of that he will always #1 (and the sizing of scans indicates the comparative importance of fronts in my collecting world, or perhaps my relative lack of scanning skills)
Brian
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