Originally Posted by 1880nonsports (Post 1566148)

none of the three contestants on Jeopardy tonight could identify the person depicted on a T206 Wagner. I was a bit surprised. I wonder if Mantle would have caused the same lack of response? At least it was a 2000. question....

Originally Posted by bnorth (Post 1566194)

I really doubt a 52 Mantle would of had any better response. In reality card collecting is done by a very small percentage of people.

Originally Posted by vintagesportscollector (Post 1566199)

I don’t find that surprising at all. In fact I would have been shocked if more than 1 of the contestants knew it. You can walk down any street in any city in America and ask 1000 people, and I will bet you that no more than 2 people will know, if that many.

Originally Posted by 4815162342 (Post 1566211)

I fixed that for you.

Originally Posted by bnorth (Post 1566194)

I really doubt a 52 Mantle would of had any better response. In reality card collecting is done by a very small percentage of people.

Originally Posted by mighty bombjack (Post 1566350)

What was the answer? Did they show the card? Certainly Trebek didn't say "The person depicted on the t206 Wagner."

Originally Posted by darwinbulldog (Post 1566423)

I'm guessing about 1 in a 1000 could identify the man in this picture: http://www.thebaseballpage.com/sites...er_johnson.gif

Originally Posted by darwinbulldog (Post 1566423)

I'm guessing about 1 in a 1000 could identify the man in this picture: http://www.thebaseballpage.com/sites...er_johnson.gif

Originally Posted by darwinbulldog (Post 1566423)

I'm guessing about 1 in a 1000 could identify the man in this picture: http://www.thebaseballpage.com/sites...er_johnson.gif

Originally Posted by joeadcock (Post 1566483)

I wonder if even the majority of major league players now in 2016 know who that is.

Originally Posted by 4815162342 (Post 1566438)

There are around 250 million people in the US that are 16 years of age or older. Do you really think there are 250,000 who know who Walter Johnson is?

Originally Posted by Leon (Post 1566560)

If it's any consolation I don't know who they are...

Originally Posted by brian1961 (Post 1566605)

If it's any consolation, I knew instantly that was Walter Johnson, THE BIG TRAIN. The consolation is furthered by the fact I cannot identily one single 2016 MLB player by their picture in uniform today.

Go Barney!!!!!!!:)

--Brian Powell

Originally Posted by brian1961 (Post 1566605)

If it's any consolation, I knew instantly that was Walter Johnson, THE BIG TRAIN. The consolation is furthered by the fact I cannot identily one single 2016 MLB player by their picture in uniform today.

Go Barney!!!!!!!:)

--Brian Powell

Originally Posted by darwinbulldog (Post 1566585)

Absolutely. I'm guessing at least 100 million would recognize it as a picture of an old baseball player. You'd have a lot more people guessing Ruth, Gehrig, Cobb, and DiMaggio than getting it right; but he's the single greatest pitcher in the history of the game after all, so 250,000 seems about right to me. I grew up in New Orleans. We've got about 400,000 people there. Surely there are at least a few hundred old-timers in the entire city who would take one look at that photo and say, "Well that's Walter Johnson of course. Why do you ask?" And that's not even a baseball city. You'd do much better in St. Louis or Boston. And of course there are hundreds of other cities, to say nothing of the suburbs and the countryside.



Among baseball card collectors, the 1 in 1000 number doesn't seem plausible. I think about 80% of pre-war collectors would know, maybe 20% of the Topps era collectors would know (or at least guess correctly), and then maybe 1% of the modern card collectors. In total, I'd guess 5-10% of all baseball card collectors, not 0.1%.

Originally Posted by Bocabirdman (Post 1566777)

Behind the Right Centerfield wall at Camden Yards, the Orioles have Bronze statues of Brooks and Frank, Earl and Jim Palmer. Palmer does color for the Oriole broadcasts on MASN. He was out there doing a pre-game piece on Boog Powell's BBQ. A woman was taking pictures of the statues. When she got to Palmer's, Jim walked over, raised his leg to mimic the statue of him in his wind-up and........The lady asked him to please move out of her shot...She had no clue who he was.........