High bidders "win" items in auctions.

You don't win things in auctions, you buy them. If I were the owner of an auction house (or the former owner), I would love that the idea of "winning" items has become the accepted verbiage. You might be winning the right to buy an item for your bid, but the last time I looked, if I win something, money isn't leaving my pocket.

Hobby myths:

1)T207 Davis with a blue C is a legitimate variation.

One exists and is a printing freak.

2)There is a P2 Mullins large letter variation pin with black cap.

It does not exist and has has incorrectly been assumed to exist for over 30 years.

Don't know whether it's been mentioned but as late as the 2006 Standard Catalog and maybe even later the following card has been listed but in fact does not exist:

1907 Dietsche Postcard PC-765-1 Schaefer & O'Leary two player card.

This one is real old and from Burdick himself

There is a t206 with a Hustler back. One has never showed up

Mr. Reader took my other one with the mysteriuos black bar Old Mill needed to complete your t206 back set. I loved it when I could finally with 100% certainty cross this one off my list and I admit it was on my list.

Myth: Based on the prices paid for their cards--that Mickey Mantle and Nolan Ryan were vastly superior to all other players of their time.

Myth. That the T206 Wagner PSA 8 was printed in 1909.

Mine as well
 

Me too! I have a mix of both what appears to be hand cut and what is probably machine cut W575-2 cards. Is it possible that they could have been distributed both as a box set and as a strip issue? Leon's example shows me that a strip issue is not out of the question. I would also like to hear about the the box set...just never have heard the actual story behind it.

Brian

Myth. That Rebel Oakes' real name is "Rehel". The Barry Sloate in me dies a little each time I see "Rehel" on a slab. Bigfish has a nice T205 Oakes on the BST right now and it looks like the mistake was made in 1911 and has been propagated for a century now. Who would name a boy Rehel anyway?

Stretching my reach firmly into the border edges, http://www.baseball-reference.com lists his playing name as "Rebel". Was that not the name he played under?

Would you want to go by the name "Ennis"?

Ennis Telfair Oakes