Devlin

Devlin

Bill Dahlen

Overlooked HOFer
 

Dahlen

"Bad Bill" A career worthy of the Hall. Dahlen managed 606 major league games, and was ejected from 65 of them!

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Dahlen

That's an impressive stat!

Wild Bill Donovan (as he is listed in the SCD entry for the T3 set)

"Wild Bill" was a very good pitcher who helped Cobb's Tigers to three consecutive pennants from 1907-1909. His first managerial job was with the Providence Grays of the International League. Here he is with the 1914 Grays, front and center, managing a promising young rookie pitcher standing behind him that you might recognize.

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Wild Bill

Larry Doyle

Happy Halloween!

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Doyle

Red Dooin

Dooin
 

Need it!

There's a near complete set of T3s available in an auction that just started. For anyone interested, here's a link to it.

https://collectauctions.net/LotDetai...entoryid=38330

Dooin

Cool grouping, that's my old PSA-1 Cobb
Would love to buy this batch, though I'm sure it will be out of reach by auction's end

Can someone post the dimensions of a PSA and SGC slabbed Turkey Red? In the baseball room, there is some dead area where the Turkey Reds might fit.

Thank you.

Any guesses as to what it will go for? Considering the condition of Cobb, Johnson, Mathewson and Young and the number of cards that are Poor or Authentic, I would think it will be under $20K, but since you don't see this close to a set all together in one lot very often, maybe it will go for more.

Jay I would think it would go for much more then $20K, perhaps double that

Dean, just grabbed a PSA & SGC slab.
PSA slab is 6.5" x 10"
SGC 7.5" x 10.5"

It will be interesting to see. I actually kept track of how much I spent to put my set together over the last few years (luckily I had mostly finished it before the pandemic prices started). It cost me around $31K, and while my set isn't high grade, it's definitely better than the near set in the auction lot so if that set goes for more than what I spent, I'll be happy.

Kid Elberfeld

Simply add them together to get the absurd dimensions of the BVG slab :D

Thank you!

Elberfeld

Michael, that is sweet!
The nicest Elberfeld I've ever seen, hell that's one of the nicest Turkey Red's I've seen

Agreed, there aren't that many T3s around that are graded that high.

Thanks, guys. I don't have too many but I like the ones I have (one of which I think is due up tomorrow).

Johnny Evers

How do you guys post without putting in a message? Whenever I try, I get an error saying "The message you have entered is too short. Please lengthen your message to at least 1 characters."

Not sure how it is done, but I always just put a "." as my message, and it is so small it is practically not there.

Brian

Michael that never comes up w/ me
no need to add a letter or symbol

Michael, your Evers is a card I submitted to PSA for a friend over 15 years ago
I scanned it when it came back from PSA. here's my scan.
Glad to know its in good hands

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Jay W. and I are adding links to images on external hosting sites vs. uploading images directly to net54. Not sure why the forum requires text, but that is most likely the reason for the difference.

Jay, thank you for posting a better scan....and thank everyone for the explanation about why I need to have some kind of text (even if it is only .) before I can post.

Evers

Clark Griffith

"No Offer" back

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Original Grif-Dog

Nice to see Craig doesn't have them all. I'll be posting my one No Offer back in a few weeks.

Griffith…one of the nicest condition cards in my set. Beautiful card.

Griffith

Michael a Griffith "7" man that's sweet!

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T3 Turkey Reds
 

Catching up

Craig, you make the "no offer" back variation seem commonplace :)

Some amazing posts today. A T3 7 and a total of 9 No Offer backs. Not too many of either are seen often.

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Hughie Jennings - I wonder what he thought about the pose they used for him.

Jennings

These are amazing. If anyone is feeling bored could someone post a photo of one next to a more standard sized card?

No #18 Jennings to share, it's on my want list.

EDIT: picked up my Jennings in January 2022

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Here's one I recently scanned, a Turkey Red T9 boxer w/ his T218 counterpart.
Note that a T218 card is a bit bigger then a T206

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Found one of my T3 / T206 scans

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Thanks for posting! Those look amazing.

Here you go. T3s are 5-3/4" x 8" and the standard cards size has been 2-1/2" x 3-1/2" since the 1957 Topps set.

Cool picture with the same pose on both cards.

Jay there's a bunch like that.
I used to have them all listed during my 1st go around w/ Turkey Reds 15-16 years ago.
Much of the info I can no longer find...or just forgot :(

T3 is one of the vintage card sets I wished I had pursued more (along with the Cracker Jacks). I think one of the reasons I held back was because of their size.

Here is my Jennings. It has a fun (in retrospect) story attached to it. I was at a card show, probably in the early to mid 1990's, and came to a table of a well-known dealer/hobby author. He had a binder full of T3 cards in plastic sheets. At the time I was in the need for a T3 type card, preferably a Hall of Famer, and something inexpensive (boy, nothing has changed in my collecting habits). I came across this Jennings...and at $25 it was a perfect match for my requirements. The dealer was seated at his table and busy working with his inventory and had never acknowledged me. I finally got his attention, paid the $25, and he silently (don't believe he said a word) handed me the plastic sheet from the binder with the Jennings. End of story.

Actually, about 15 seconds later as I was walking away from the table, I flipped the sheet over and noticed that it also contained another T3, a much nicer common player. I like a good deal, but the 2 for 1 was not discussed. I returned to the table with the Jennings/other player sheet and told him that I was mistakenly given the additional card. Without looking at me, and with a grunt he slid out the other card and handed me back the sheet with just the Jennings. No thanks for my honesty, nothing. A case of a hobby legend living up to his gruff reputation.

Well at least I have my story and this nice lower condition Jennings to share.

Brian (as far as the pose, I believe Hughie was well known for doing a wildly showy 'Ee-Yah' yell and dance while coaching third base, so to have him depicted as such was a natural choice that he probably didn't mind at all)

Brian, great story. I wish my T3s had only cost me around $25 each.

Jennings

Addie Joss

Addie Joss.

Don’t have Addie yet, but one of my favorite images in the set.

Tim Jordan

Jordan

Red Kleinow