Bugs, Rhoades, and Schlei

The Admiral

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Boss Schmidt

Schmidt is known for giving a cocky young fellow Tiger named Ty Cobb a well deserved beat-down in early 1907, leaving him with a broken nose and black eyes.

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Schmidt

Wildfire Schulte

Wildfire….anyone know the origin of that nickname?

Well, to answer my own question (thank you Wikipedia!):

Schulte acquired his nickname, "Wildfire", after seeing a play called "Wildfire" in Mississippi. He then named one of his race horses "Wildfire" and was eventually known by that name, as well.



In addition, i learned Schulte was one of only four players to ever make the 20-20-20-20 club, which i never knew existed. 20+ doubles, triples, homers and stolen bases in one year.

Cards always mean a lot more when you know something.

I remember hearing that there were 4 players who had done that in 2007 after both Jimmy Rollins and Curtis Granderson did it. Willie Mays (1957) also did it. I don't remember Schulte being the fourth, but he did it in 1911.

Frank Smith

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Smith

One of my 2 T3's...Frank Smith with an ad back:

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George Stone

George Stone

Gabby Street

Billy Sullivan

Sullivan

My only other T3...this one with a checklist back.

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Fred Tenney. The NY and Boston variation was the last card I needed to finish my set, and I got it as part of a large, low grade lot of T3s and was able to sell the others off in the B/S/T. If I was ever going to upgrade any cards from my set, this would be one of the few, but it's a tough and expensive variation from what I saw so I was happy to get this one at a pretty reasonable price.

The Tenney NY is the last card I need to finish the set. Here is my NY & BOS variation.

EDIT to add that I did finally get that Tenney NY in March 2022, scan attached to complete the set.

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Chad, very nice card of the tougher Tenney variation

Ira Thomas for today

Tenneys and Thomas. The Tenneys were both hard to get for me. I finally settled on the pinhole for the NY thus far, given it was pretty great looking otherwise. Not sure i would bother to upgrade it.

Nice cards. If you do ever bother to upgrade the Tenney NY, I'd be quite happy to take your pinhole copy. :)

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Bobby Wallace

Pretty strong prices for most of the T3s in REA last night. It looks like the few raw ones were a little more reasonable. Did anyone pick anything up?

I am really hoping you picked up that Tenney :-)

It wasn't me. I was hoping to hear that either you or Chad was able to win it to complete your sets.

Extremely strong prices on T3s last night. I was quite surprised at what the commons in 3 holders brought. Was hoping to upgrade my Moran but it went for double what I expected! And no, the Tenney was not me. Even if I liked that Tenney, I would've been out at that price, but I was not a fan of that copy with the paper loss in the borders. I was not a part of bidding it up so there were at least two other people who liked it more than I did. The Tenney search continues...

I got this Wallace in a lot, it had what seemed like white labels stuck to the front, really stuck. What you see is the best I could do in removing them.

EDIT: Added a photo of what it looked like pre-label removal.

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Chad, the Wallace looks pretty good if you had to pull labels off of it. A little paper loss in 2 places, but overall not bad.

I was surprised by how much the Tenney went for considering the paper loss as you mentioned and since it was the more common of the variations.

Last one for me...I continue to enjoy this thread.

Ed Walsh

Wallace and Walsh

I bid on a bunch & just won the Ira Thomas
Very strong prices overall. Like....
Carrigan PSA-3 $810, Moran PSA-3 $750

Here's the Thomas PSA-2, it shipped yesterday & should be here tomorrow.

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Here's "Big Ed"

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Hey congrats! I'm glad I didn't bid that one up :) I wanted the Moran as an upgrade, but at half the closing price! Since we're on Walsh today, I should mention that I really liked the VG Walsh in REA as well, but again I was out before the end as it went for well over what I was hoping. REA seems to be getting a serious premium these days.

Chad if you bid 1 increment higher, it would have been all yours.
I always feel left out if there is a batch of T3's and I get shutout :)

I wasn't the underbidder, I placed an early starter bid but turned my attention elsewhere, and ended up being shut out. Those are the breaks! On the plus side, my wallet can continue to slowly recuperate from 2021.

Owen Wilson for the last day of posting cards for the set. It's been great seeing everyone's T3s, and good luck to those working on the set with completing it.

Also, happy birthday to my son who turns 17 today and is taking his driving test this morning. Unfortunately, more money for car insurance may mean less money for cards. :eek:

Last of the last.

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Thanks for the thread Jay, I've enjoyed it, especially as it coincided with me working to finish the set. I needed 16 to finish the set when the thread started three months ago, and now I'm down to just one. It's been fun.

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Chad, that's good progress in just over 3 months. Good luck finding the Tenney you need.

My "collector grade" Turkey Red player set (no variations, no special backs, just one of each card) plus two Mike Wheat fantasy T3 cards of Honus Wagner and Joe Jackson. (Years ago I begged him to do a T3 Joe Wood as well but he politely declined).

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David, I would say your T3 set is well above collector grade. There are some really nice looking cards in your set. I wish you had posted them in the thread as it was going on.

Agreed. I don't like the term "collector grade" for its ambiguity, but as it seems to refer most often to beater cards, I must agree that your T3 collection is MUCH nicer than that. Thanks for sharing, those are great looking Turkeys! I'd love to own that Mathewson.

Didn't wish to irritate anybody with my choice of terminology. A decade or so back when I was engaged in scorched earth collecting practices there seemed to be a ton more stuff out there for grabs. T3s routinely showed up on eBay and the pricing was such that 3s and 4s were affordable and not anywhere as stratospheric as they are now. I shied away from the higher graded cards then because they were more expensive and I fancied myself an armpit collector whose main criteria was eye appeal. I loved pinholes in T3s because they kept the price down. There may be a better way to phrase it but it's what I called "collector grade" back in the day. SGC wasn't grading T3s then, just PSA and GAI. I'd have liked to had the whole set slabbed by SGC when they started grading them but it was one of those ideas that never went anywhere. The Matty was graded by GAI - I forget the grade, maybe a four for what it's worth - but I cracked it out of its über-fugly slab. It looked like it was graded by Radio Shack. Really awful.

No irritation here, I just wanted to let you know that IMO you have a really nice set! I love the Matty ungraded. In fact, I've cracked out 17 T3s from SGC slabs so far, as well as 4 PSAs. The SGC slabs are just too cumbersome for me, and frankly I've found that I just like the cards better unslabbed. It's ok to let them breathe :) Thanks again for sharing.

The final bid on the T3 set in Lelands was $42,757 (so over $50K with the BP) which apparently did not meet the reserve so the set didn't sell. I can't imagine what the reserve was considering the overall condition of the set, but as previously mentioned, with the estimate listed at $150-200K, I think someone was being very overly optimistic.

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Yup, zero surprise there. Also notice that 8 other lots didn't hit their reserve. That Tom Brady signed game-worn jersey was at $497k w/ the BP and didn't hit the reserve! It's from a regular season game in 2010. Half a million dollars isn't enough?!?!

I really can't believe the UFC fight seats didn't sell! I mean the possibility of each match ending in 1-5 minutes and my $50,000+ being used to sit down in a metal folding chair for half an hour sounds like an enthralling time. Oh and the part where I don't know what event it's for, "date and event to be determined". Just gives me such a rush!

This one didn't even get any bids, and with the estimate of $300-400K, I imagine the reserve would have been well above $50K. At least it was for 2 people so you could split it with someone. :)

Base set complete!
 

Paid more than I would have liked but excited to have picked up the Tenney last night while upgrading my Baker. Base is now complete and now time to get started on the master :-)

If anyone is interested in a SGC 1.5 Baker let me know.

Also, I have a few still in SGC slabs. I know ... buy the card ... but I do want to get everything in PSA for consistency. If anyone is looking to swap PSA for SGC let me know.

Brian

Brian, congrats on the pickup to finish off the base set. At least the master set is only 4 more cards, but the other Tenney variation is definitely a tough one. Good luck with the final 4.