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(Thanks for the kind words, Eric.)

Card 23: Charles E. "Gabby" Street. "The Old Sarge". Catcher for the Washington Senators in 1908-1911. 312 hits and 2 home runs in 8 MLB seasons. Debuted with the Cincinnati Reds in 1904. Caught ball dropped from top of Washington Monument. Holds MLB record for longest gap between MLB games at 19 years -- 1912-1931. Managed the St. Louis Cardinals in 1929 and 1930-1933, including the 1931 World Series championship. Managed the St. Louis Browns in 1938.

Gabby Street Portrait Piedmont 350: Street Portrait T206 206 cards are common (PSA-591). PSA has graded seventeen Street Portrait T206 cards at PSA and eight at PSA 8. The Street Portrait T206 card is in Print Group 2.

Heritage/Rounders Entry: The H/R card is graded PSA 7 is perfectly centered and presents beautifully, with strong edges and corners and only a hint of surface wear and staining. But the borders are tight. The back is a letdown, featuring poor centering and considerable fading and surface wear with toning.

My Entry: My card is graded PSA 4.5. The image is good, and the surface looks clean, despite showing ample wear to the edges and rounded corners. The registration is not perfect. The card is well centered, but a little left. The borders are reasonable. The back is centered okay, but shows moderate fading, staining, and toning.

Comparison: The H/R card presents quite well but the borders are not comforting. My card suffers from a minor registration issue. The H/R card enjoys better centering. My card has the better borders. The backs are similar, not good.

My conclusion: I like my card better. I would like to upgrade it, but the H/R card is not the answer. Its borders are too tight to be a good candidate.

The bottom line: If we ignore resale value, I would not trade my card for the H/R card. The H/R card looks great but falls down on borders.

Additional Gabby Street Fun Fact: In 1906, he was playing for San Francisco in the Pacific Coast League and staying at the Golden Gate Hotel. He was asleep early on the morning of April 18th, when he was thrown from bed by the earthquake. He remembered: ". . . I headed for the street. If I live to be a hundred, I shall always remember that scene. As we hit the street, en masse, the rear of the hotel collapsed and the water tank on the roof, halved by the second shock, washed every one of us. I walked through showers of brick and mortar to the Golden Gate Park where I spent the night.”