My Indiana Collection... T206

[jalex]

Hey,

Just wanted to share my collection. It has been just under a year since I started my quest to get all the T206 featuring players who were either born or buried in Indiana (plus the Indianapolis team set). I am at 20 of 24, still missing M. Brown (Portrait and Cubs on shirt), Jimmy Hart and Doc Crandall (No cap)...

Just wanted to show it off. I know it's a bad pic from my Iphone, but you get the idea. Plan to finish it in the next month or two.

I am already feeling a little sad that it is almost done. Think I will move on to the other T-card Indiana players after this is finished. Think I will start with t201, just three cards there, and then move through the list...

Thought I'd share.

Cheers,

Jim

[freakhappy]

Awesome, Jim! It's always great to sit back and look at an accomplishment, but it's sometimes sad when it comes to a close because the fun was putting it together.

I wish you luck on your future card endeavors!

Mike

[jalex]

Thanks...

When i started this endeavor I thought this would be it, get the T206's, display them or put them away and move on, but I have learned so much about pre-war cards since starting that I have become addicted. I have already made a checklist of t-cards outside t206 of Indiana players and it has grown from 24 t206 to 76 cards... It made me sad that it was almost done until I realized there was a whole world of amazing t-cards to find. Once they are done, i may move on to the candy cards. Who knows?

Cheers,

Jim

[jalex]

Also, I don't chime in often, but I can't tell you what a valuable resource NET54 has been. I have learned all I know about vintage cards from watching threads here and it is greatly appreciated. Thank you Leon... And, thank you to those who have sold items to me in the BST section, you have all been fair and fast in the transactions...

Cheers,

Jim

[BasherBoy]

Looks great Jim, are you a hoosier? If not, what made you start the set?

[freakhappy]

I can totally relate, Jim. I started collecting T206's a year ago and I've been hooked ever since! One of the great thing about collecting them is that I don't really care so much about the player, but the feeling that these guys played 100 years ago or so...the history of it all. I have a goal to eventually obtain the set, but it will be a long way before that happens.

You're definitely right about Net54, Leon does a great job and there are endless contributors on the board...without them, I am pretty much dumb when it comes to tobacco cards.

Mike

[jalex]

I am a long-lost Hoosier, grew up in Indy, left when i was 19, but I spent many nights during my childhood watching the Indianapolis Indians at Bush Stadium(named for Donie Bush of t206, btw, Detroit Tiger). The Indians were the reason I loved and still love baseball. I collected cards since I was a kid, started with 78 Topps, had my first t206 in 1981, loved them, but stopped collecting when I discovered girls... Now that I am older, I looked back and wished I had those old cards, girls be damned... I have not lived in Indiana in 20 years, but I have always thought of myself as a Hoosier. I thought it was a good way to connect to my love of baseball and my love of my Indiana home...

Cheers,

Jim

[jalex]

Originally Posted by freakhappy

I can totally relate, Jim. I started collecting T206's a year ago and I've been hooked ever since! One of the great thing about collecting them is that I don't really care so much about the player, but the feeling that these guys played 100 years ago or so...the history of it all. I have a goal to eventually obtain the set, but it will be a long way before that happens.

You're definitely right about Net54, Leon does a great job and there are endless contributors on the board...without them, I am pretty much dumb when it comes to tobacco cards.

Mike

Hey Mike,

I have no illusions of ever completing a t206 set, but I like the idea. The first card I fell in love with was my Ed Summers, Detroit T206. I fell in love with it because I researched him and realized he was an amazing pitcher for just a short time and succumbed to rheumatism and ended his life just 10 blocks from where I grew up. The history and the connection, realizing I had tread the same ground that this unsung baseball hero had tread, made me fall in love with vintage cards...

And yeah, Thanks again Leon for having this forum. There are a lot of guys on here who know it all, but there are probably as many of us who are just trying to figure it out and this place is a good place for those of us who don't know it all...

Cheers,

Jim

Cheers,

Jim