26-1941 Play Ball cards. Here are a few:

Recent add to my set.

Been a good month.

Great pickups for everyone for this month. I'm continuing to work on the 1936 sport stamp run for Gehrig. Happy to get the Washington Herald one this month.

Fantastic Pickup very historical and great eye appeal

Congrats

adding a few more stamps to the month

T215's
 

Picked up a couple T215's. Although the Doyle is not labeled correctly, I will probably just leave it in the holder as is.

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Agree, Sam. No way I’d send that back to PSA for the year wait.

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Great pick ups Sam, congrats.

T215’s
 

Correct Jeff no way! And thanks Phill

Sam

Now down to 104 missing from a complete set
 

This should be sitting at my desk when I return to work, so now down to missing 104 cards if Howe had a complete set at any time.

Taking a hard turn here, guys, at any age you need to have your PSA (prostate-specific antigen) level checked.

Just about a year ago, I started not feeling well. Move forward seven months and I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. While it won’t kill you, it does spread to other tissues and organs and can kill you there.

I was lucky that after many PET, CAT, and MRI scans, it was determined it was still located only in the prostate gland, and last Friday, I had a robotic radical prostatectomy. It’s kicked my ass (I’ve never really had a surgery before, so that was a long nine hours for my wife to sit through). But I’m lucky that when I finally do heal, there isn't a chance of it spreading. It’s gone.

Guys, do what you can to prevent it, catch it, or stop it from spreading. For yourself and your family.

Coongrats Sam. Those are wonderful looking T215s!

Just Arrived Today
 

More April additions…….look at that Strunk card…..who says 1915’s aren’t stained……love that caramel!

I’ve been doing genealogy research with my mom for months, mostly because there is a lot available for her mother’s family tree and not much available for the families of my other three grandparents. Anyway, I talked to my aunt (mom’s sister) on Sunday about all of the stuff I found. She asked about her dad’s side. I said I had very little, and then she just drops “My dad’s cousin was boxer Mickey Walker. Supposedly he was pretty good.”

I asked my mom about it and she said “We called him uncle Mickey!” then tells me stories I’m hearing for the first time in my life about a guy who has been ranked as high as the 11th best boxer ever. How did that not come up during three months of research talk? Crazy. So I had to buy a card. I’ll get more in the future

You really have! I love the Middy’s had a type example on my someday list for a while.

This came in the mail today
 

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T215’s
 

Thanks Leon!

The importance of health issues like this can't be understated. Whether it's you, your significant other or another close family member, by all means, take it seriously. Supporting loved ones with serious long-term chronic issues is life-changing.

Thank you, Ed, for this reminder, and I am glad you got diagnosed and treated, and I hope your continued recovery is uneventful and you return to full health and spirit quickly.

--
Mike

And my other pickup
 

Working on my Yankee Captains collection!

That's a beauty for the given grade. Congrats!

Was able to grab this from N54 member TPGS
Its not pretty, but it will suffice.

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Tolstoi time :)

Finally picked up the 52T Mays. Mays prices have calmed down a bit and I wanted to be sure to add a nice one.

Very nice 52T Mays Paul!


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Heritage win.
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Another Chase added to the “Bad Boy” display. Good deals can be found on eBay still, even though much is overpriced , then tax and shipping tacked on, but this one was right in the zone.

Really happy with how I started the month and now ended.

For anyone who saw it, Hunt had an amazing auction that included some extremely rare negro league item from a collection of a great ambassador and personally connected to Judy Johnson.

Some of those items included a ticket and program to the first negro league WS in 1924 as well as 1925. A ticket booklet for Judy Johnson to use for Hilldale signed by Ed Bolden the owner.

Several lots of Hilldale tickets which I now own one!

Not sure we will see those available again and I hope a great collector or the Negro League Museum will house them soon.

I am happy to add this c1921 Hilldale Team photo with the great Louis Santop, Johnson, Warfield etc.

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Nice game card. If you don't already have it, you might consider his Tom Barker card. I prefer the Tom Barker of Chase, which features a different photo showing him in a black Chicago White Sox uniform, which for a bad boy is very fitting. The bonus is that Hal was traded to the White Sox on June 1st, 1913, which identifies the Tom Barker set being produced after the National Game set, being that Hal's National Game card features him in a New York Yankees outfit, the team he was on from the beginning of his MLB career and up until June 1st, 1913.

Brian

Thanks for the tip Brian…..I’ll check the “usual” places and see if I can find one as I agree, it’s a more head on or chest image than the National Card. I wonder, was he in the 1914 Polo Grounds card set?

Hal Chase is not in the Polo Grounds set...Tom Barker it is for you!

Brian

Nice blue Walsh, Andy. Great pick up.




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REA wins. Needed many Diamond Stars....ended up with one. Game card for the type collection.

Diamond stars can be tough, especially in high grades. Notably the high numbers are really tough, underrated group.

I had bids in on ten different Diamond Stars. Was hoping to win two, had to settle for one as the bidding progressed. Yes, high numbers are quite tough...and the low numbers (1-24) also are challenging. In particular, in REA #98 Rowe and #108 Berger were very nice cards but at the levels they reached, I had to focus on one.

One of the forgotten greats of the peak deadball era...

During the years of 1912-1915, Tesreau averaged 5.2 WAR, a 2.22 ERA, and almost 2x more wins than losses. In the year 1912, his rookie year, Tesreau registered a remarkable ERA of 1.96.

Tesreau was a giant of this period, when Mathewson began to age; assumed the role of lead ace as McGraw's Giants battled Joe Wood and Tris Speaker's Sox for the 1912 title. I've also attached a Type 1 photograph from my archive here that documents the highly anticipated matchup + battle between two of the widely considered (and statistically backed) greats of the 1912 season, Tesreau and Wood. They battled it out three times in the 1912 series, with Wood's Sox getting the better of Tesreau and the NYG in a strange and wild eight games.

Tesreau would go on to consistently articulate himself as one of the best pitchers in the game the following three years, with a WAR total beat only by Walter Johnson and Grover Cleveland Alexander during that four year period. Tesreau's career would abruptly end when questioned about his whereabouts by manager McGraw; he refused to answer, claiming his whereabouts away from the ballfield were his own business. After leaving baseball at the age of 29, he went on to coach at Dartmouth for 30 years.

"Over the course of his seven-year career he compiled a 119-72 record and 2.43 ERA while holding opponents to a .224 batting average (for comparison’s sake, Walter Johnson‘s career mark was .227, Christy Mathewson‘s was .245, and Pete Alexander‘s was .250, though each pitched considerably longer than Tesreau), leading the National League in that category in each of his first three seasons. “That big fellow has the best spitball in the league,” said Johnny Evers. “I think he is as good with the spitter as Ed Walsh.” -- SABR, Jeff Tesreau (player bio)

Not forgotten by me. Nice Tesreau pickups. Especially like the "essay" on the photo's back. My all-time favorite team is the 1912 Giants. Unfortunately Smoky Joe got the better of Big Jeff two match-ups out of three in the World Series and the Red Sox prevailed in the end. I still haven't gotten over it.

If you ever want to start a "Show me your Tesreau" thread I'll be in there like a dirty shirt. Here's a couple of items I like, a postcard and a Bain photograph.

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these are AWESOME. starting it right now... looking forward to your musings!!! let us know all the good details.