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.