Even weirder when you look real close and see his eyes are actually open.

Perhaps thou speaketh of me whom doth need open mine eyes.

Brianp(shaketerriblespeare)-beme

Might as well pump up the volume with this post (on a This is Spinal Tap scale of 1 to 11, my T205 card of Murray might just rate a 0).

Brian

A fine pair of Beckers. I still need to get one with a gold border.

I can't remember the time frame but I am pretty sure I bought this card at a show when I was old enough to know there was a T210 of Joe Jackson but did not know what it looked like (pre-Internet). I was sifting though a pile of T210s and thought I made a big score for my dollar.

Ooh a T205 run
 

Here is one of my favorites.

1910 Baseball Group Photo
 

Listed Names: Ebeir Dodge, Russell Lewis, Fred Hadley, Archie Mosher, Carl French, Freland Herricks, Willie Pollard, Harry Lowell, Carl Lowell, George Wright, Jake Hadley, Johnny Werich, Richard Herrick

A couple of T's and an E card both players died in an insane asylum from the clap.

So, there are a couple Sacramento cards that look odd other than the Byram. This is the oddest to me, it looks like the head and the body don’t belong together.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...28454f19_z.jpg1920 W-Unc Poster Card by Greg Martin, on Flickr


From this set:

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Nourse on that D310 almost looks as if the card producer blurred out his hand because he was giving us all the middle finger salute.

Brian

Another unnaturally attractive Obak, this one a 1909 of Norm Brashear.

Brian

Perhaps he was...

Here are two more.

How about a T210 in honor of the latest find. Pepe is very excited!

Bill

Double folders are better when both players are H.O.F.'s

Another odd Sacramento card

Not everyone has an off-center Kiki.

Brian

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1904 Jeffries-Munroe Sporting Life 'W600' Cabinet Card. Only known example.

V61 W572 E210 Three cards, one image Tom Zachary
 

J. Thompson "Tom" Zachary. Pitcher with the Washington Senators in 1919-1925 and 1927-1928. 1924 (Washington) and 1928 (New York Yankees) World Series champion. 186 wins and 23 saves in 19 MLB seasons. He debuted with the Philadelphia Athletics in 1918.

In Washington's AL pennant-winning 1924 season, he posted a 15-9 record with a 2.75 ERA in 202.2 innings pitched. He also won games 2 and 6 to lead Washington's 7-game World Series championship. In 1949 with the New York Yankees, he went 12-0, an MLB record that still stands for most wins without a loss in one season. He finished his career with the Philadelphia Phillies in 1936.

Despite all that, Zachary is best remembered as the pitcher who gave up Babe Ruth's 60th home run in 1927.

Before his MLB career began in 1918 (he never played in the minors), Zachary made history in college. From his SABR biography:

In one of the greatest collegiate pitching duels ever waged, future major league pitchers Tom Zachary and George Murray faced off on April 6, 1918, at Guilford College. Murray was the star of North Carolina State University and would drive out four singles and steal a base against his opponent. Meanwhile Zachary collected two of his team’s six hits off Murray. The two men matched out for out over 16 innings. Murray amassed 20 strikeouts while Zachary fanned 14. The game, tied at 0-0, was finally halted after the 16th frame by the umpire, Sherwood Upchurch, on account of “haziness” even though the sun had not set. Many in the crowd of 700 were certain that Upchurch’s “appetite had run away with him and that he was no longer interested in baseball.”

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Another Nielson's

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https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...d19869c9_z.jpg1931 W-Unc Strip Cards by Greg Martin, on Flickr

How about another Smith, colorized W572 version.


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What Are The Odds ???
 

[QUOTE=CobbSpikedMe;2103582]How about another Smith, colorized W572 version.


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.........What are the odds that the same kid , a real St. Louis Cardinals fan , with a steady hand and a keen eye and access to a red crayon had , at one time , got hold of both these cards .???? .. ( this Beckett-Grader Puzzler is a 1931 Metropolitan Studio rookie issue of a lanky pitcher named Jerome Hanna Dean )

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Now you got ole Piano legs thinking....[QUOTE=MikeGarcia;2103597]

1920 Zeenut of camera shy Del Baker.

Brian

Van Lingle Mungo Song Master Set Project
 

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https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...208f5118_z.jpg1922 Henry A. Johnson Candy by Greg Martin, on Flickr

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Another great pose in the D310 set. Here is a different/interesting pose in another PCL set...the 1914 Zeenut of Gus Fisher.

Brian

Sometimes you wonder what the photographer was thinking.

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...726e4bcc_z.jpg1931 W754 Metropolitan Studios by Greg Martin, on Flickr

virtual card show
 

No one views this thread anymore because its too busy here....

That's a nice 2. Love that center panel.


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...70e171ce_z.jpg1938 R329 (Clopay Foto Fun) by Greg Martin, on Flickr


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One of the best cards depicting the importance of stretching...1916 Zeenut of Charles Brown.

Brian

Ha, that's a great card

Not a bad "Boner"

Sometimes it seems that Zeenut cards need to be goofy in one way or other...here is a 1917 of Jerry Downs watching a popup go way, way up.

Brian

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...Unc%20Cobb.jpg

Cobb did it too.

But would Ty have swung on a pitch this high?

Brian

You don’t see many blank backed cards in this set.

I also don’t know how they cut the backs to be so much bigger than the fronts.

It seems like a good portion of my cards are like that, or sometimes the backs are smaller. Oddly enough, the fronts and backs of most other things in my life seem to match up.

Brian

https://photos.imageevent.com/exhibi...20Catalina.jpg

Hi Ho, Hi Ho
It's off to work we go

Cubbies doing their best Seven Dwarves imitation on Catalina Island, ca. 1937 or 1938.

Yeah, it's a snapshot but WTF, it's Friday.

And Friday deserves another goofy Zeenut, this one a do-si-do-ing 1919 Zeenut of Allen Conkwright.

Brian

1933 Goose Goslin
 

Goose Goslin

Leon A. "Goose" Goslin. Left fielder for the Washington Senators in 1921-1930, 1933, and 1938. 2,735 hits and 248 home runs in 18 MLB seasons. 1936 All-Star. 1924 and 1935 World Series champion. 1928 AL batting champion. 1924 AL RBI leader. 1968 inducted to the MLB Hall of Fame.

Goslin drove in the game-winning, walk-off run to win the 1935 World Series for the Detroit Tigers. With Gehringer and Greenberg, was one of the Detroit "G-Men". In 1936 he had an inside-the-park HR when both outfielders (Joe DiMaggio and Myril Hoag) collided and were knocked unconscious. He had one of his best seasons for the WS-winning Washington Senators in 1924 as he posted a .421 OBP with 100 runs scored and 129 RBI's in 674 plate appearances.

Goose didn't get along with Walter Johnson and spent 1930-32 in St. Louis. On Opening Day, April 12 1932, Goslin came up to the plate against the Chicago White Sox with a bat that featured 12 longitudinal green stripes. The bat was thrown out of the game, and on the following day, American League President William Harridge declared the "zebra bat" illegal, as it caused a distraction to the fielding team.

When Johnson was fired after the 1932 season, Goslin let Clark Griffith know he would be happy to return to DC. Griffith got Goslin included in a trade and he returned to Washington to become part of the AL pennant-winning 1933 Senators. That explains the 1933 cards showcasing Goose's batting pose as a Washington Senator; the 1931 card on the other hand was issued after Goose had been with the Browns for at least one full season.

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I feel obligated to run through some additional goofy Zeenut cards before I post anything else...a 1923 of Sky High Charlie High.

Brian

an early cdv.

https://luckeycards.com/cdv1868c.jpg

Melvin Ott's M114.

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That is awesome.

3 finger got an extra one in this t206

I knew Leon's cdv looked familiar...I have the same one (well, not the exact same one, but the same pose). You can't always trust the pencil dating on the back of cdvs, but 1867 seems about right.

Nick Dumovich evidently displayed a bashful nature while on the pitching mound.

Brian

A couple of horizontal Zees.

https://photos.imageevent.com/kawika...%20McCarl1.jpg

https://photos.imageevent.com/kawika...ZN%20Halla.jpg

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Brian, I’m loving the goofy pose Zeenuts. David, those are some seriously sweet cards. So much sweet stuff in this thread.

Thanks Ed, your D310 calvacade is most impressive, and David always has the good stuff to post.

As for me, for the next few posts I will stick with the funny Zees. Here is one of straight man John Knight.

Brian

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Might have shown this zee before but here it is again as a funny one

So, this is the last Sacramento card in the set. I’ll give it a rest on the D310s for a bit. Maybe finish off the digital set here in a while.

I wonder about this card, if it was blank backed originally or not.

Johnny , we hardly knew ya......
 

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...the one without any ID on the front is his Burke 4 x 6 ....that picture was used on several magazine covers too.............he has some great Exhibits , too

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Something from 1895.

1920 Zeenut of Elmer Cox, who has had the middle of his body condensed for our viewing pleasure.

Brian

Buck Weaver and Hal Chase playing catch.

https://photos.imageevent.com/kawika...BG%20Chase.jpg

The D310 of Buck Weaver is my dream card.

Brian

Green Ruths

I guess it is best to follow a Babe Ruth Trio with my final goofy Zeenut. This one is a 1913 card of Bill Leard. With the 'everything is wrong about this' batting stance displayed on the card, it is shocking that Bill made it up to the majors for 3 games in 1917.

Brian

I'm going to guess blank back, very cool. Can't wait to get back in this thread this weekend!

I love this Exhibit. Connie Mack appearing immaculately tailored while McGraw looks like he slept in his suit. Two very different pioneers of the game.

Am I Crazy or is that a lot of gum?
 

Am I Crazy or is that a lot of gum?


https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...9bcb19c8_z.jpg1922 W575-1 Strip Card by Greg Martin, on Flickr


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Sam Crawford card with blank back (with artwork seen in the E95 set), which was cut out of a cover of a Base Ball Series Notebooks that featured E95 and E96 cards.

Brian

M116 are underrated. Great portraits in the series
 

Arrelanes was arguably the first Mexican American big leaguer. Sadly died of the Spanish flu in 1918