A few tough ones left to go!

Ruth - 1933 Goudey
Gehrig - 1934 Goudey
Dean - 1934 Goudey
Appling - 1935 Diamond Stars
Hartnett - 1936 Worldwide
Gehringer - 1941 Play Ball
Cronin - 1941 Play Ball

Not sure if you guys saw the red Ruth that went in PWCC last night...SGC 40...near perfect but with two very faint surface creases. Man, was I close on that one!

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Just out of curiosity, Jason, why?

It was really about when/how I learned about these guys. As a kid, WAY pre-internet, I knew about the top-shelf immortals like Ruth, Gehrig, Cobb, Young, etc.--basically the guys who would get chapters in 1970s-era kids' books like "Baseball's Greatest Players" or the guys in the 1976 Topps All-time All-star subset.

Once I got my hands on the Baseball Encyclopedia, these two guys I'd never heard of jumped out at me. Both played largely in Philly around the same time, both had almost exactly 300 HRs (which was a LOT when I was a kid), and both hit for very high average--.320 and .334.

But yes, as I type this, I am cognizant of your (very correct) "Klein is overrated" post from a year ago...taking away ballpark effects, I gather these two guys begin to look very different.

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That's ok, I tend to always think of Yount and Molitor the same way because they were both Brewers, though their games were completely different. :D

poof!

speechless .... wow!

Impressive. What's with the rubber bands?

i print the ebay transaction page off w/ each one so that i know who/what/when i paid on it.

just in case anything fishy happens down the road or if anything happened to me, the fam doesn't get screwed.

So is this your confession? Are you part of the "gang"?

of course not.

could it have had some effect?

maybe, maybe not. who's to say for sure?

but it was certainly fun reading the threads for the past couple of months...

and knowing is half the battle!