Not many of us can say we put Goudey cards in our bicycle spokes!

Probably sometime in the late 1980's, my dad picked up our first T206. And yes, it was because of the 'stache.

Red background Ty Cobb, with Polar Bear back. Answered an ad in the back of TSN requesting Gar Miller's "for sale" list, and bought that card for $5 (plus a Play Ball Bill Dickey and Red Ruffing for a buck apiece and a W512 Ruth for $5).

That was 1971, when I was 10. Rick Salamon gave me several T206 beaters a few years later. I didn't get back to The Monster until 2018 and I'm now up to 507 graded, 205 more raw.

But that Cobb remains my favorite.


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Purchased early 80's at a show with my dad for $2. I believe at the same show I got ripped off on a fake n95 mayo lave cross. I think that was $3.

Seems like the going price for cards of top tier HOF pitchers in lower condition in the T206 set were going for $2 to $3 during the early 1980's, since that was the price I paid for the two I showed previously in this thread. I like the look of your Matty!

Brian

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Got it around 1977-78 from Mike Berkus at an Anaheim show. Slabbed decades later.

Picked it up as a raw card at a National couple of decades ago. The dealer had about ten Cobbs sitting there, all ungraded. If only......

I thought Irv Young was Cy Young and bought a real banged up card for $8 in the early 80s at a show on Long Island.

My first was a T206 Oscar Stanage (SC) in the early eighties on a card shop on Lincoln in Anaheim, CA. My Dad bought it for me for $9, and I have been working on a back run for the past few years. I need a Tolstoi and a Broadleaf. I will call it a day after the Tolstoi.

Funny thing is I work in the area and frequently pass by the location which is an insurance company now.

I bought this on eBay and nearly had a heart attack when I won it. I didn't even know what the OC on the flip meant.


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Maybe "Outstanding Condition"?

T206 Matty dark cap was my first T-card. I sold the original years ago. But it has been replaced with another example.

I got an E98 Irv Young in my first group of 5 prewar cards, and for 20+ years I just took it for granted that it was a card of Cy Young. The name on the bottom misled me (and buyers are to this day still forking out big bucks for its Cy designation).

I have to admit, I still consider it a Cy Young card...it says so right there on front, and he pitched for Cleveland from 1909 to 1911, so I have the right to do so!


Brian

Another member of the Dark Cap Matty first T206 card club. Any more out there?

Brian

I wish! It’s one of the set’s - or any set’s - most beautiful subjects. Perhaps one day I’ll own one as it was a big part in inspiring me to collect the set.

That's what Kevin Mize told me!

Mathewson white cap, closely followed by a T205 Cobb.

Well hello all,

I just started about 2 weeks ago now collecting the T206. I was very excited just like everyone else and I feel the excitement got to me just buying anything to have my first one. I know I over paid for Scott card but we all make mistakes when collecting.

Since then I have slowed down and see If I could find good deals. Hard to find good raw cards on eBay at a good price. Most threads I read buying common cards should be around $25 -> $35. Well haven't seen those deals yet or undless I'm searching in the wrong place.

Well these are 2 first cards in Dec 2024.

I love the smell and how they feel in your hand. Can't believe I finally have two of these cards. Always seen them in books when I was small and thought to myself I could never afford them.

Yep.

If I counted right, that puts us Dark Caps up 5-3 over the White Caps.

He isn't identified as a Super Print for nothing. The Dark Cap image (obviously a manifestation of Christy's evil side) evidently lures in unsuspecting individuals to a lifetime of prewar card collecting.

Brian

One day while visiting a small baseball card stand in an outlet mall, I saw a few T206 cards and I couldn’t believe it. I remembered the set of reprints and thought how cool it would be to own a real one. The prices being somewhere between $15-$25 for a few beat up commoners. A few were more expensive, but given my limited cash flow, I asked to see a couple of the ‘cheaper’ ones. Up until that point, I don’t think I had ever paid more than $10, maybe $15 for a card. So to shell out over $20 for a card, a much smaller sized card at that, was a really big deal. I didn’t recognize any of the players, so I narrowed in on one I thought was in decent condition, had good color and an interesting look to it. I thought, if I’m going to pay this much for a card, I might as well get the best looking one I could afford. I bought my first T206 card that summer afternoon – Larry Schafly, Newark, which is a minor league commoner. I went back a few weeks later and bought a Donnie Bush T206 card as well as a thick screw down case that still holds both cards to this day
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These 3...

I THINK that I have told this story here before...

I was 15 years old, but already a 10-Year Hobby Veteran when my Grandpa passed. We were helping Grandma clean out some of his stuff when I found these in Grandpa's "Sock Drawer"!

I knew that my Grandpa smoked Piedmonts in his day, but I never knew he had ANY cards, let alone these...

I learned about T cards from Frank Slocum's book, which my Dad had and we used to look at together. When I was ~9 or so, my Dad got me one for Christmas, this thin Livingston with a Sweet Cap red back. It was probably $8 or so, which at the time we considered a lot for a single baseball card. We had a lot of fun together learning about the players of different periods, picking up new type cards and slowly rebuilding the 60's/70's sets he had built as a child. 1 tobacco card became 2, and 2 became 3, and now I'm at ~25,000 tobacco cards according to my inventory sheets. Decades later, I still show him all my new tobacco cards as we squint at factory numbers.

I own a magnifying glass mainly to read tobacco card factory numbers. I squint less now.

Brian

I bought this T202 at the age of 16 in 1980. Still is my favorite set. Love the pictures and write up.

I put together a 56 and 57 set but other than those sets I pretty much have spent my card money on Pre War cards.

Lee