Classic Card Chronicles ~ Jay Miller & Joe Gonsowski ~ EP2 OUT NOW ON YT & SOUNDCLOUD
 

New episode of Classic Card Chronicles out now!
YouTube: https://youtu.be/xhG2mNKTYwM
SoundCloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/pAUAoUJCp6GKBPVJ6
Jay Miller and Joe Gonsowski (renowned Old Judge collectors, and the authors of the Old Judge book), will be on to discuss the complexities, cards, subsets and players of the old judge and surrounding Goodwin and Co sets. Within the podcast, they will also update the top 100 scarcest card list and Hall of fame scarcity list from the book released in 2008. Andy Geller and I are excited for y’all to see this, and hope you guys enjoy :). New episodes will be released on the first of every month, with the next interviewee announced at the half way point.

Great interview. Thanks for the sharing of knowledge by Jay an Joe and for putting the time in for doing the interview.

Thanks for watching Harvey! and the kinds words! All credit goes to jay and Joe, were great to work with

Great interview -- thanks for doing this to everyone involved!

Thanks Brian!

I just listened, very interesting input from Jay and Joe, who needs to open up an 1888 pack if he finds one :)

I enjoyed it- thanks for sharing. And I'm with Jay on the cigarette pack...I'm opening that baby right up!

Haha, thank you for watching!

Haha, we need a poll! Thanks for watching

This was a fun one too!
 

These guys were so knowledgeable and have sparked a new obsession for me. This will surely cost me thousands in new OJ’s!!

Many thanks to Andy and Josh. They made the process easy, did a nice job pulling images into the final edit, truly a pleasurable experience start to end. I really enjoyed the Jeff Lichtman podcast before ours and look forward to all that will follow.

My main takeaway is to keep any unopened packs away from Jay and most of Net54 :)

Thank You !

It was a pleasure having you and Jay on!

Im a fan please do more

Thank you! Episodes will be released at the top of every month. However the upcoming will be released earlier due to the national. Keep an eye out for it in the next few days :)

Since there are 523 different subjects in the set, has anyone even approached this number ? What is the highest known collection of different subjects ?

I was also interested in the (McCreachery / Deacon White card) . I thought this would be mentioned in the podcast since White was mentioned as the hardest HOF'er.

Hey Mike! Thanks for watching the podcast. I believe there are major collectors who pursue to get as many of the subjects and cards as possible. hope that helps answer your question!

No, I was hoping for a number such as 400 or 450 etc.

Josh—I really enjoyed taking part in the podcast so thank you and Andy for doing it. What could be better than spending a few hours talking about Old Judges and getting a chance to spend time with one of my favorite people, Joe Gonsowski.

Great episode. Very informative. I had no idea there was that many Old Judges.

It was our pleasure! You and Joe were so amazing and easy to work with, we really enjoyed doing this with y’all. Thank you again

Is it possible to know that a hypothetical unopened package contains a baseball card as opposed to a card of an actress or pugilist or someone/something else Old Judge included with their cigarettes in 1887-90?
Just in case I get an unopened pack figured I might want to know:)

Based on dates on the tax stamp you’d be able to tell, if you knew what to look for. Great question

Why isn't the Old Judge N172 broken up into sets for each year, since they are from different years and designs ? 1887 Set, 1888 Set, 1889 Set and 1890 Set ?
We don't group all the Topps, Goudey Sets etc into one set, each year is a separate set. I'm I missing something here.

Hey , I believe they are classified into different sets when they are collected. Each year is pretty distinguishable. They are just not given a different name

One of the reasons is that many of the photos are used in multiple years, as are the card designs. Another might just be that no one is asking for it. T206 cards were produced in different years too, but it's one set.

I'd guess if the cards had numbers on the back and there were multiple cards with the same number, then it would make more sense to separate it

I really enjoyed listening to jay and joe talk about the set. Jay has been helping my build my N172 collection for years and it was good to actually see his face and not his thumb that’s in all the pictures with the cards.

Mike--Great question! The quick answer is because we are saddled with Burdick's mistakes. It isn't even just that he should have subdivided the N172 set. The 1887 short number set contains both N171s and N172s. Calling Old Judges a "set" makes little more sense than calling Topps a set.

Thanks for watching David! Glad you enjoyed it