Need help identifying a N172 Old Judge Brown's Champions card

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Posted By: Matt Vance

I've been primarily a modern card collector, but I've been researching on this site and others, gaining information on vintage. I received this card in a collection I purchased. I did enough research to find out it's an N172 Old Judge card. From what I understand, the Brown's Champions was a sub-set or a pose variation within this very large set. However, as you can see from the scan, most of the name of this player is faded. Can anyone identify for me? Thanks.

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Posted By: Jim Clarke

It is Arlie Latham. Here is a better photo of him to see.


Click on link to see his bio

http://www.baseball-reference.com/l/lathaar01.shtml

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Posted By: Randy Trierweiler

I believe this to be Curt Welch. It also favors Bill Gleason, but I think its Curt Welch. I'm sure a Network 54 vet can verify.

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Posted By: Randy Trierweiler

Or it could be Arlie Latham, Thanks Jim!

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Posted By: Matt Vance

Thanks for the help. It's much easier to see on a nicer card! But, now that I know who it is, I can kind of see the outline of the letters on my card. I was thinking of having this card graded by either PSA or SGC. More for authenticating it than anything, if I decide to sell it. Any chance this card would receive higher than a PSA 1 grade? Is selling it graded really going to affect the sale price versus selling it raw in this condition? Thanks!

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Posted By: Chad

And getting it graded will definitely help on resell to assure people the card is authentic. A lot of fakes get beat up like this to make the seem old. I know I'm skeptical of vintage beaters these days.

--Chad