Niche Set Collecting, an example

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Posted By: Gilbert Maines

I was just looking at Pete Alexander's pitching record, and I noticed
that when he was about done, he hung on for a year with the Phillies
(where he went 0-3 with a 9.14 ERA) That's "about done".

But this is one of the best pitchers ever seen. What more fitting a way to end your career
(if you are one of the greats) than to go out with the worst pitching staff in the
history of baseball?

Is that who the 1930 Phillies were? Yes. 6.71 team ERA. If I am mistaken,
then Ol' Pete simply went out with the worst thru 1930, but I should have heard
of a pitching staff worse than that crew.

Now this is collecting, so other than a team card, you can collect the individual player cards
.... which makes the project far more excrusiatingly painful. Of course you can't
get each of the perpetrators of this crime, but you can round up
many of the key criminals. Of course Ol Pete is the centerpiece of this niche.
But it could also include the following examples:

1930 Phillies Pitching Staff

Ray Benge -
Phil Collins
Les Sweetland
Claude Willoughby
Hal Elliott
Harry Smythe
Hap Collard
Snipe Hansen
Chet Nichols
Buz Phillips
Lou Koupal
John Milligan
Pete Alexander
By Speece

Im sorry, I lost the examples. But they chiefly included cards from 33 Goudey, '32 Zeenut with one from Diamond Match Book and another from Centinnel Flour. Several of which had other options.

Waddayathink? Can you collect this kinda stuff? Want more examples?


Edited to add:

It is an excuse to pick up a few nuts, a matchbook, and who knows what a centinnel flour really is?