Since that set was printed in Sweden they are not as uncommon as one would believe if you are other there. I got mine in Sweden in 2016 from a dealer who had 2 others. The collectors on here call the T-206 set 'The Monster'. The postcard set that includes this Thorpe is a true monster set with over 800 cards. The cheapest you can find any of the cards is about $10.00. The official photographers also created RPPC's that are not part of the set that were sold to competitors. I have two mailed by a U.S. fencer to his mother and brother from the Olympic Games that show him with other fencers and they are not part of the set. I saw a complete set displayed at the Gothenburg Sports Museum. It was displayed in those frames that you could flip like a giant book. Very impressive to look at.

1910 Brown's Tennessee Rats

Just got this one today

Terrific !
 

..I haven't spent this much time looking at a woman since "Weeds" went off the air...

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Winthrop
 

Very excited to acquire this Winthrop Moving Picture postcard of Joe “Iron Man” McGinnity. I have admired these for a long time. Here’s a short YouTube video of the postcard in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBxmDjEtKb8

Does anyone here have the Mathewson or “Three Finger” Brown from this series?

I saw that postcard at auction (online) and thought it would be cool but didn’t know how thick it was! Thanks for sharing the YouTube video!! Now I’ll have to keep my eye out for one! A Matty would be sweet!

Here's a cool postcard! It's a 1911 RPPC of a N.Y. Giants player "catching a high ball in Cuba". This photo was taken during the N.Y. Giants barnstorming tour of Cuba in 1911.

Picked up this aerial RPPC of the two ballparks from which sprang my love of baseball. Frequented Yankee Stadium numerous times in the 'fifties while the Polo Grounds sat dark and shuttered across the river. At the upper left you can see the buildings of Columbia upon whose grounds once sat Hilltop Park. The left and right field grandstands of YS haven't been extended yet so the image is probably pre-1936. An eBay purchase.

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I think I missed this video last time around, Very cool (neat postcard too, David...as well as the others!!)

Amazing David, and a tough one.

No, but I have the George Dixon:

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Super-tough issue; I don't recall the last time I saw one offered for sale. That's a really nice pick-up.

I got this one today, a RPPC of Holman Williams:


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Williams was part of a group of African-American fighters in the 147# and 160# classes (welter and middle) nicknamed "Murderers' Row": Charley Burley, Lloyd Marshall, Williams, The Cocoa Kid, Jack Chase, Eddie Booker, Aaron Wade and Bert Lytell. The champs of the time refused to fight them, so they ended up fighting each other dozens of times (62 in all). Five of them have been elected to the HOF so far: Burley, Marshall, Williams, Cocoa Kid and Booker, and collecting them for a HOF set is a real challenge. Booker, Burley and the Cocoa Kid have no known cards; I had to settle for career-issued photos. Marshall appears in the 1940-70 Boxing News set from the UK. Williams has a 1947 Montiel card. This postcard is the first I've ever seen for Williams. It is an AZO four squares back (1924-49 per Playle's). The weight notation and format suggests that this was a self-issued postcard and it dates to his days in the early 1930s when he fought as a lightweight.

Winthrop
 

Thanks Adam (and Derek & Leon)! I’ve seen your posts of the Dixon previously, really cool. I was hoping one or more Net54ers might have the Brown or Mathewson. Guess I’ll be searching for those for a long time as well!

Here's a real nice 1907 Eagle Press Brooklyn Superbas Postcard purchased on the BST. Thanks Jeremy!

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Couple others.
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I was wondering who beat me out on this awesome postcard which is too rare for its own good! Thought it might fly under the radar last month. I own the Matty and Brown since you asked,

Fred Merkle Bonehead Play
 

Picked up this very cool postcard of the imfamous play in game which changed baseball forever. For those that don't know the story, here it is.


Merkle's Boner is one of the most prominent incidents in the history of major league baseball. It occurred in 1908 and involved many future Hall of Fame players.

Fred Merkle was a 19-year-old player filling in for veteran Fred Tenney at first base for the New York Giants when the famous play occurred. During the first decade of the 1900s, the top National League teams were the Pittsburgh Pirates, the New York Giants, and the Chicago Cubs. During the 1908 season, the Giants and Cubs were in a close battle for first place. The Cubs had previously won the pennant in 1906 and 1907, while the Giants had won in 1904 and 1905.

A few days prior to the game in which the play occurred, Cubs captain and eventual Hall of Famer Johnny Evers warned an umpire that he was going to insist on the umpires calling a runner out if he failed to touch the succeeding base at the end of a game. It was common, at the time, if a batter batted home a runner who was on third base to win a game, for a runner on first base to just leave the field instead of bothering to touch second base. The player whom Evers had seen supposedly failing to touch second base was Warren Gill in a game played on September 4th between the Cubs and the Pittsburgh Pirates.

On the day in question, September 23rd, the exact same situation happened in New York. Moose McCormick was the runner on third base, and when pitcher Jack Pfiester's offering was hit into the outfield by batter Al Bridwell, McCormick ran home, scoring what he thought was the winning run, and ran into the clubhouse.

Fred Merkle was on first base, and he ran toward second base. Whether he actually reached second base has been disputed over the decades. At some point, he veered off as if to run off the field.

Evers yelled at the umpire Hank O'Day, who was the same man that he had warned a few days earlier. Christy Mathewson, the famous Giants pitcher and eventual Hall of Famer, very quickly saw what was happening, and ran onto the field to stop Merkle from leaving.

Meanwhile, the ball had been hit into the outfield, and was picked up by outfielder Solly Hofman. Hofman at first didn't think there was any rush to return the ball to the infield, but Evers screamed at him to throw it to second base to get a force out on Merkle.

Another famous Giant and eventual Hall of Famer, Ironman Joe McGinnity was coaching at third base that day and saw what was happening. He ran over to second base. As that was happening, the Giant fans in the stands, thinking the game was over, were streaming onto the field. At least one of them was near second base, and as the ball came from the outfield toward second base, he and McGinnity and Evers engaged in a struggle to catch and control the ball, at the same time as Mathewson was manoeuvering Merkle. The fan ended up getting control of the ball, and heaved it into the stands, where it disappeared. An alternate version claims that Rube Kroh, a Chicago pitcher, wrestled the ball from the fan and gave it to Evers, who touched second base.

First baseman and eventual Hall of Famer Frank Chance was the Cubs' player/manager, and he came out of the dugout to argue his team's case with the umpire, who had not given any ruling as to whether the winning run had scored. This was somewhat dangerous, as the Giants fans were all over the field, and while Chance argued, many of the fans got quite angry with him.

Not to be outdone, the Giant manager, eventual Hall of Famer John McGraw, came out to argue the Giant side of the story. The umpire listened to both sides, gathered the other umpire, Bob Emslie, and went into the umpires' room (which was merely a "cage" of metal bars under the stands), where they tried to discuss the problem amidst the raucous yelling of Giant fans trying to influence the decision.

The police were called as a result of the pandemonium, and the Cubs team had to be escorted by the police from the stadium in front of thousands of angry Giant fans.

The umpires ruled the next day that Merkle had not touched second base, and therefore that the Giants had not won the game. The league president eventually ruled that the game was a tie and had to be replayed in its entirety. When it was replayed, the Cubs won. At the end of the season, the Cubs finished one game ahead of the Giants for the pennant. Johnny Evers' smart move had won the pennant for the Cubs against the Giants.

On the front of the postcard is the statement, "The Famous Post Season Game deciding the Pennant between Chicago and New York. Polo Grounds, October 8, 1908. Witnessed by 80,000 people." This is an image of the replay game, not the Merkle game. (It's still an interesting postcard.)

The McGinnity postcard is really nice, but I always thought he had a distinctive submarine-type delivery—looks like he’s coming over the top in flip sequence.

Vernon Tigers
 

Here are a few nice Vernon Tigers RPPCs, snapped at the same LA ballpark as many of the Dingman team cards. Wonder if the whole Vernon team posed for these? Would sure love to happen across some teammates.

Dave, do you know who the players are? What year? One of my favorite players played for Vernon in 1916. (Chief Johnson)

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Card says 50,000 people and its the "play in" or the "make up game" cause of the Bonehead Merkle play from the earlier game.

Vernon Tigers
 

Dan,

Circa 1910-1912. The first guy pictured is Len Burrell. Haven't tried to pin down player #2 yet.

Dave

Great postcards!! Please keep posting them. They are awesome to look at.

Here's a few Pick-ups:

• 1933 Babe Ruth RPPC - from LOTG
• 1933 Babe Ruth (Hand-tinted) RPPC - from LOTG
• 1933 Snapshot (6" x 4") of Babe Ruth - from LOTG
• 1939 C.W. Hughes & Co. "Cavalcade of Baseball" Postcard - Includes Babe Ruth

Nice Ruth post cards. Love this thread.


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1908 Detroit Tigers “Our Home Team”
 

A couple of recent postcard acquisitions to contribute to this thread!

1908 “Our Home Team” foldout postcard of the Detroit Tigers.

1907 NY Giants
 

And a 1907 New York Giants featuring the fine portraits of Carl Horner. I’ve only seen one other, in a Heritage auction in 2009:
https://sports.ha.com/itm/baseball-c.../a/716-81071.s

The New York Highlanders version was shown here:
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=252154

All components of this intricate mailing card are present and intact.

You have a great eye for rare and under valued postcards Kris. How can you go wrong with the 1908 Detroit Tiger team!!! Do you have any other teams to go with it like St Louis?

Thanks JC! No, only Detroit at this time.

An interesting aspect of this postcard is that despite a stellar 1907 season, Cobb was not yet established enough to warrant his own panel. He shares one with Red Downs. To say their careers were headed in opposite directions is an understatement.

Our Home Team postcards. They came with different colored front panels.

Wow, nice collection of them JC.

Fantastic collection JC!!!

Could anyone identify this card
 

I believe it is from New York, maybe even Cooperstown area.

Anyone have any Tigers Team postcards from 1935?

sayhey!

Great Mays postcard, Pete!!

Picked this one up recently. Almost certain this is Olson's Cherokee Indian team. Circa 1910.

Beautiful Dan!

Nice Dan, I was watching that one too. That is a great image.

Let's post some eye candy for the resident puckheads! Picked up this stunning group of three 1912-17 RPPC's of a few players from the famous Quebec Bulldogs Hockey Club. Before these were offered to me, I had never seen or heard of these postcards before, they are quite possibly one of a kind. The image clarity is off the charts!

• 1912-17 Quebec Bulldogs Jack Marks RPPC
• 1912-17 Quebec Bulldogs Paddy Moran RPPC (Goalie - HOF)
• 1912-17 Quebec Bulldogs Harry Mummery RPPC

Bulldogs
 

Spectacular Quebec cards Jeff, congrats.

Those are great Jeff, I especially like the Moran!

Those are great Jeff! Congrats!

Thanks guys! The Moran is really cool, if you google search "Paddy Moran" you'll see that's one of his more popular photos.

Beautiful postcards Jeff!

Awesome Jeff! I like the last guy’s hair style. Reminds me of Edward Scissorhands.

Still my favorite thread of all time!

The company is still in business:

Thanks Derek! When I started this thread, I wanted to see postcards from different sports (not just baseball). Hence the title "Let's see some postcards"
Jeff

Heres one
 

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Here is a Watsonville, CA postcard.

One of my new favorite Cobbs
 

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Great card Brian, you have jumped head first in PCs and smack dab in the middle of my focus!

Ya know, Mantle has some great cards!

Agreed. You would love some Mantles!:D

Great Cobb Brian.

I love the horse and wagon in this one, though I have no idea what the team is.

These are my only PCs. Not necessarily looking to go headlong, like Brian (great Cobb!), but tough to turn away Cobbs and Wagners - and BTW, PCs have grown easily as expensive as mid-grade T206 HOF portraits....!!!

The group you have now assembled Ryan is just perfect!! Nothing like some rare Cobb and Wagner PCs!! Of course your whole pre war collection is amazing, but this group might be my favorite subset of your collection (especially those two Roses!)

Anyone have any info on this postcard? Just won it on eBay and would love to know if there was a cross promotion between MLB and Dodge.

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It was just Dodge and the Tigers, not all of MLB. Great card and relatively rare.

Thanks for the info. Similar to the standard catalog for baseball cards, is there a similar type of reference for postcards? I would like to see what else is out there for Tigers team cards in the 30s.

Don't recall if I've posted this before. Back is blank postcard format and someone has written "Christ School Team 1911."

Happy New Year to all you boxing fans! For my last one of the year:

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Now the earliest boxing PC I have.

Brian awesome MaxStein Ty Cobb! Love that postcard. Ryan, those are great investment postcards and congrats on having the best of the best!

Following are my post war and pre war postcards...

Post war:

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Giant postcard:

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Reprints:

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Pre War:

Carlisle vs Villanova 1907:

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1908 Carlisle vs Minnesota:

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Beaver Field College Station:

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1909 Tom Longboat:

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1912 Olympics period RPPC of SS Finland that transported olympic athletes and delegation to Stockholm:

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July 23rd 1912 the Olympic track team competed at Parc Pommery, France which was 1/3 European meets the team competed in before returning to the U.S. A rested Thorpe placed 1st in the 100M Hurdles over Fred Kelly who won the event at Stockholm.

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More Postcards!

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Pre War:

Thorpe at Olympics..Thorpe is 2nd from left about to start 1500M of the Decathlon:

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Return from Olympics:

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Tewanima/Thorpe/Warner in parade at Carlisle Celebration:

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Oorang Postcards/Ticket:

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Nice Thorpe and Native American Indian collection! Thanks for sharing them.

You bet! Been getting these and other Thorpe memorabilia for close to 20 years now...just now starting to share with others what I have...I’ve posted a lot already on the Jim Thorpe thread. I collect other early Native runners also just a bit and see that you collect Nebraska Native items...I’ve actually keeping an eye out for Nebraska items. Will PM you if I run across anything.

Forgot about this one..I have 2 so can show front and back at same time.

Jim Thorpe Death Notice Postcards:

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Can someone post a link to the Thorpe thread?

Here is an RPPC of Elmer Busch from Carlisle along with a 1922-23 type 1 photo of Jim Thorpe-Joe Guyon-Elmer Busch-Pete Calac as members of the Oorang Indians.

I have some nice Lewis Tewanima and Amisoli Patasoni photos in my Olympic photo archives. Also some of the native Hawaiians.

Sure would like to see those Olympic items..I’ve posted some of my Olympic items on the Jim Thorpe thread along with other Thorpe items. I’ve got a few Tewanima items but they are are to come by...always looking for more.

Excellent items you have! I’m still trying to get a photo of Thorpe with Oorang to go with my postcards. One will come along someday! If you will go to the ‘search’ drop down at the top of this page and type in Jim Thorpe it will take you to the thread.

Great Thorpe PC's everybody! Nice seeing some of the more unusual material.

Rob M

Thanks! I’ve got the 23 Thorpe postcards that I’ve listed but I know of at least around 10 more that I do not have. Of course...I’ll be pursuing the ones I don’t have...just hard to come across them!

I will try to post some of my Native American photos over in the Jim Thorpe thread over the weekend. I will limit it to pre-WWII which will mean Frank Mount Pleasant, Lewis Tewanima, Amasoli Patasoni, Wilson 'Buster' Charles and Clarence 'Taffy' Abel.

Very nice Bryan!

Flatlanders Postcard
 

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Harry Campbell in back row... eventually played for Washington.

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