William

Casimir Eugene Kwietniewski
 

#178 -- Cass Michaels

Cass Michaels. Born Casimir Eugene Kwietniewski. Second baseman for the Washington Senators in 1950-1952. 1,142 hits and 53 home runs over 12 MLB seasons. 2-time All Star. He had a career OBP of .349.

Michaels debuted with the Chicago White Sox in 1943. His best season was 1949 with the White Sox as he posted a .417 OBP with 83 RBI's in 672 plate appearances. In 1954, his career was ended by a pitch to the head, in the aftermath of which he was given last rites. He survived but never played again.

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Cass.

Casimer Eugene

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George's Michaels card = mic drop!! :eek:

1952
 

My Cass for today.

My Cass

Cass Michaels


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TED Z

T206 Reference
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I'm back! I haven't had a card to show for over a month, but here is my Frank Smith #179.

I have about 40% of the set so far (175 cards) but have mainly been focused on buying nicely centered mid-grade cards, I haven't paid much attention on filling in numbers but realized that I have nothing between 135 and 179. So I am guessing that finding centered Series 3 cards will be a bit of a challenge.

Frank Thomas (name on front)

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Welcome back, Al! Also I'm just trying to prove Al's point about the difficulty of finding centered Series 3 cards. :p

My Frank

My Frank Smith card for today.

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Wrong forum.

1952 Topps
 

My card for today.

Smokey

1952 Topps.
 

My Maxwell.

My Charley

"Smokey"

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Frank Smith and Charley Maxwell.
My Maxwell is my only signed 52 Topps card I own.

Bob Swift for today. This card, in decent condition, was rather hard for me to obtain as the story goes, like the Bartirome card, this card was also being hoarded??

Robert Virgil

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My Swift. I don't remember it being hard to find in this condition.

Bob shows up on the H&S Super list for what is described as a spit PP on the back, the defect in the PPs in Topps. He can also be found with a recurring botched g in the bio

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1952 Topps
 

My Swift.

Bob shows up on the H&S Super list for what is described as a spit PP on the back, a scarce but recurring defect in the PPs in Topps. He can also be found with a recurring botched g in the word batting in the 2nd to last line of the bio

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My Swifty. I recall it being very difficult to find this card with even decent centering. And, overall, it seems to be in shorter supply than other cards in the series, though I have never heard of anyone hoarding it nor have I checked to see if population reports bear this out. Just basing it on my personal experience since it was one of the last few cards I needed for my 1-310 run and it was a bugger.

William Hitchcock

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TED Z

T206 Reference
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William Clyde

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1952 Topps
 

My Billy for today.

Billy

Hopefully Rob has remained diligent so he can show us his card again. :cool:

I wonder if elephants really have long memories like Bob

My Billy for today

I believe it was someone on here that mentioned someone was hoarding these Swift cards, and, IIRC, it was because of the time when Swift caught/was behind the plate for when Eddie Gaedel came into the game as a pitch hitter? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Gaedel

For me, it was not only a tough card to find centered, it was also a tough card to obtain as I was constantly outbid on numerous copies.
I regret, bigtime, not purchasing a real nice centered graded copied (likely the best I had seen?) from a seller I frequent. I had already purchased my copy shown so it was an unnecessary expense but that still bothers me. I believe the seller had it as a auction/BIN option and it was grabbed up within hours. In hindsight, for a $100 U.S. I believe the buyer got a heck of a deal.

Anyways, here is my Billy Hitchcock for today. Another card that is real tough to find centered, imo.

Card #183, Erv Dusak.

"Four Sack"

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1952 Topps
 

My Erv.

Bob---is the red on upper left "sack" on the card ? Or were you eating toast and jelly when you scanned the slab ?

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My Erv

Four Sack Dusak. Pretty cool nickname even if he did only hit 24 HRs in a 9-year MLB career.

Strawberry jam. :rolleyes:

My Erv:

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Bob Ramazzotti for today.

1953 Topps
 

My Bob for today.

My Bob

"Ram"

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My B-Ram:

"Swish"

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Mr. Nicholson

And my COTD.