Show us your (current) favorite T206!

[TheBig6]

[CMIZ5290]

Originally Posted by TheBig6

Great choice Jerry! beauty!

[TheBig6]

Thanks Kevin, there’s so many good choices

[kdixon]

This is my favorite T206. It is of Zach Wheat and was owned by Zach. It came out of his scrapbook. In fact have his entire Brooklyn T206 team set from the same scrapbook. Zach was born in my hometown and I have been collecting him for about 35 years.

[HawkFan70]

My Dad bought this for my newborn son 18 years ago...

[Bill77]

This was my 6th T206, the 2nd after I was done buying T206 cards. The seller had 2 other T206 cards for sale both the same player (can't remember who it was) with Tolstoi backs. I tried for those 1st because I figured that with most of the backs gone I could get a Tolstoi cheap. After those sold for $40+ each I decided to bid on the Tom Needham Piedmont card he had. While waiting for it to arrive I kept looking at it trying to figure out what I could about what the series it was and what it shoud look like when I finally noticed that it wasn't a Piedmont card and that for $14.99 and $4.00 shipping I got the best deal on a Tolstoi card than the other 2 cards would have been. It is also the 1st card I ever soaked. The back looks better in hand than the scan.

[ullmandds]

My first t206...c1980...$2.

[ZenPop]

I bought this off frankbmd (our fellow board member), and it was my very first and still favorite t206 card. He sent a nice note about the history of "Doc" Powers...

So I bought my first card (a catcher who was also a doctor... who was part of a battery in a game that featured a doctor pitching to a doctor...) from a doctor.

Powers was probably the first player in baseball to die from injuries suffered on the field. (he crashed into a wall at Shibe Park chasing a foul ball and died two week later from the internal injuries).

It's a beautiful card and the story behind it makes it all the more special to me.
I never cared about condition of cards... I kind of like the rough or marked up ones. Someday I'll get all my Giants (and both Matty's), but for now, this is the card. Thanks, Frank!

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[commishbob]

Loving this thread. Some wonderful cards with backstories. Keep ‘em coming please!

[pawpawdiv9]

The T206 I love seeing is owned by Sean. Its his ghost missing color looking Plank.
I do not have but 2 T206's at the moment (chance & cobb-red)
But I love looking at my posters everyday:

[jbl79]

My favorite and only T206 right now . Don't have a cool story but love looking at it...

[luciobar1980]

Geez louise, what's the back of this card look like?!?

Originally Posted by jbl79

My favorite and only T206 right now . Don't have a cool story but love looking at it...

[Sean]

Originally Posted by pawpawdiv9

The T206 I love seeing is owned by Sean. Its his ghost missing color looking Plank.

Hi Chris, since you mentioned it, here's Plank:


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[Sean]

Great thread NJ. Here's one of my favorites, with a back story.

I started collecting cards in 1965 at the age of eight. My favorite card in the '65 Topps set was Yastrzemski. He wasn't famous yet, but I loved the pose. I really thought that they had caught him in the act of catching a fly ball.

When I started collecting T206s, I noticed that Mitchell appeared with the same pose. That's why its a favorite. It reminds me of that 50 year old Yaz.


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[Sean]

Sorry to be so prolific, but while we're talking about our favorite T206 cards, here is my dream card. If I could have any one card in the world, it wouldn't be a Wagner, BN Ruth, or Anson in uniform. It would be this T206 Eddie Collins:


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[frankbmd]

The best story I have has been told before. (http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=147783)

Mr. Waddell was first owned by Nelson Tisdel, who stamped and signed the back of this card. It stayed in the Tisdel family and was passed on to his son. In the early '40s Tisdel's son had a trading partner who traded T206s. Mr. Waddell was traded to Gordon Soutter, who also signed the card. Mr. Soutter kept the card for 70 years, until a lady in Utah sold the card on eBay. I purchased the card on eBay and was curious enough to ask the seller if she knew who Gordon Soutter was. She was kind enough to reply "I know him well. He's my husband." She also provided the details of the trade that her husband made to obtain the card in his childhood.

Bingo. Provenance established. Tisdel to Tisdel to Souttar to Burke++.

This is the one I will keep in the family for another 70 years.

[mechanicalman]

Sorry for the redundancy, but my submission would also be a Cobb Bat Off. Aside from being one of my first T206s, it happens to be one of my wife's favorite cards. Every time we see a beautiful technicolor sunset now, she says it's a "Ty Cobb sunset." Cheesey, I know.

[Rhotchkiss]

This is my all-time favorite. I bought one of these raw decades ago as a kid, and that’s when my love for t206 started. Over the years, I have been in and out of collecting, but each time I got back in, this was one of the first poses/cards I would get- it’s like my personal flag that I am back. Honestly, I think it’s a very ugly card; Cy looks like fat and over the hill, which I guess he was when t206 came out- maybe that’s another reason I love it so much.

[Touch'EmAll]

I'll jump in with a couple I really like, ahh the colors!

[Luke]

Cool thread idea! Love seeing everyone's choices. Today, this Crawford is my favorite. This front/back combo was at the top of my want-list for a couple years before I snagged this one. 3 or 4 years ago, I passed on the only other copy that I'd seen for sale. It had some creasing, tape and paper loss and I just thought a nicer one would come along. I had started to regret it quite a bit and then this card showed up for sale in a major auction. It was part of a larger Old Mill lot, which I was very thankful for. I was hoping the larger lot would keep some bidders from wanting to bother with it. It wasn't cheap but it certainly would have gone for more if it had been marketed properly (as the highest graded copy of the toughest Crawford Throwing pose).

[tedzan]

My all-time favorite T206 is this Hal Chase. It is my very first T206 card, which I acquired in 1981 at the famous Willow Grove (PA) Show.
Chase is my favorite player from the deadball era.






Two years ago, I finally completed my SWEET CAPORAL, Factory #30 set (468-cards) when I acquired this Eddie Plank.

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I'm undecided as to which of these cards is currently my favorite. Therefore, I have displayed both of them.



TED Z

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[3-2-count]

Nice cards everyone. Has and always will be my favorite T206.

[Blunder19]

Nice Plank Ted... great looking card!

My favorite (currently).. is the card dubbed by some... the T206 Rosetta stone.. a truly unique T206 with a Brown Old Mill Back and a ghost image of Cy Young..

An interesting note.... The history of this card can be traced all the way back to the original owner .... an very nice article was written on it by thatT206life.com:

http://www.thatt206life.com/2017/12/...stone-of-t206/

[Pat R]

I know you said one card and it's two but they share one continuous
mark and they're also plate scratch neighbors.

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[Sean]

Originally Posted by Blunder19

Nice Plank Ted... great looking card!

My favorite (currently).. is the card dubbed by some... the T206 Rosetta stone.. a truly unique T206 with a Brown Old Mill Back and a ghost image of Cy Young..

An interesting note.... The history of this card can be traced all the way back to the original owner .... an very nice article was written on it by thatT206life.com:

http://www.thatt206life.com/2017/12/...stone-of-t206/

Hey Jaime, I never realized that you were the one who got this card from Leon. Congratulations.