Face of Hobby

[bcornell]

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[yanksfan09]

Sweet card Bill! Looks like he belongs in the Ol' West

[wazoo]

Beautiful!

[ullmandds]

Awesome!!!! Local anesthetic was pretty new back then.

[frankbmd]

Originally Posted by ullmandds

Awesome!!!! Local anesthetic was pretty new back then.

Would I want to be your neighbor?

[brianp-beme]

Great card...I always thought the D381 series really showed the true face of baseball at the time, and quite often it wasn't very pretty. These guys played out in the sun all day, most of them looked like they had never seen a dentist or brushed their teeth on a regular basis, or looked like they just had Ty Cobb jump, spikes high, into their face, like Mr. Egan here. Show off some other rustic players from this set.

Brian

[Rich Klein]

On his T206 card -- and its a funny story that I'll be writing about soon

Rich

[Brian Van Horn]

Great picture and love the set.

Some more faces from the set:

[Brian Van Horn]

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[HRBAKER]

Show off!
Very nice Brian!

[yanksfan09]

check signature line... I'm almost finishing updating most of the Fleischmann scans from my collection. Each player gets his own pic now instead of being grouped by fours. It is a lot easier to view each player.... Great cards guys, keep em coming!........

[yanksfan09]

If you're looking for some tough/odd/interesting looking guys, check out: Grover Alexander, Wheezer Dell, Larry Gilbert, Hank Gowdy, Doc Johnston, Mike Mowrey, Chief Meyers, Dode Paskert, George Whitted to name a few.

[packs]

Honus had quite a mug on him too.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by packs

Honus had quite a mug on him too.

yes he did..

[ethicsprof]

great thread, Bill C.
from the title I feared it might be one of those diatribes signaling the devolution of the hobby!

I'm looking forward to your upcoming article, Rich.
great cards everyone---i was shocked to see that long list
Brian. Congrats!
all the best,
barry

[Brian Van Horn]

Thank You, Barry.

By the way, if anyone has a spare Doyle or Meyers from the set, let me know. I'm not a Giants fan. I just like the pictures.

[bcornell]

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[Jay Wolt]

This is a great thread, love the close up shots from the Fleischmann series

[packs]

The Cobb that sold in the Legendary auction was awesome.

[terjung]

I never tire of seeing that Wagner, Leon. Great card.

[Jaybird]

Originally Posted by bcornell

One of my favorites, probably the only card of Bill "Rough" Carrigan where he didn't look homicidal (card scan courtesy of Frank Ward):

I'm afraid he still looks homicidal, Bill. But still a cool card.

[rhettyeakley]

Hobby went to the same Dental School I did (University of Pittsburgh). It's nice to know that over the past century they began teaching the students how to administer anesthetic!

[ullmandds]

Yes...I had never paid D381's a whole lot of attention...but they are beautiful...soulful images!!!!!

I'm Sold!!!!

[rustywilly]

Congrats on the pickup Bill!

[yanksfan09]

Originally Posted by packs

The Cobb that sold in the Legendary auction was awesome.

I thought so too....
I didn't want to announce a new pickup until it actually arrived safely! I can't quite express how happy I am to finally have landed this one....

[Brian Van Horn]

Erick,

Beautiful pickup.

[yanksfan09]

Thanks Brian

[Matthew H]

Congrats Erick, your collection is where it belongs.

[sox1903wschamp]

Great pickup Erick. This is truly a great set.

[pcoz]

Originally Posted by terjung

I never tire of seeing that Wagner, Leon. Great card.

Completely agree!

[Rich Klein]

Here is the text of the story I did for Sports Collectors Daily. Leon has asked, and I will comply with the request to elininte the link

There are so many stories, some funny, and some just interesting I like to share while writing these vignettes about my more than 30 years participation in the baseball card hobby. One of the those involves the T-206 Dick Egan, issued more than a century ago. Dick Egan was nothing special as a ball player…just a steady everyday player during the deadball era. I was reminded of him because of a recent thread on the popular Net54 Vintage Baseball Card Forum. So here is the rest of the story.

In the early part of the 21st century, a lawyer from Vermont named Tom Simon decided that SABR needed to have a committee which focused on the early part of the 20th century. Tom, with the help of some of his friends, basically created enough members and activity so the SABR deadball committee was accepted only a few months after the concept was created.

Now one of the aspects of any SABR committee is to have regional meetings whenever possible and Tom decided that since Hot Springs, Arkansas was the home to so many teams for spring training that with some help, the first Deadball committee meeting would be held there in early 2002. Since I lived within driving distance and I already knew what my general schedule was going to be at Beckett, I realized that would be my best chance to not only put me in a good frame of mind to price older cards for the Almanac but would be a nice get away. So, I signed up, reserved a hotel room and planned to drive to Hot Springs.

There is, of course, one little catch to my plan. About two weeks before the conference I received an email from Tom basically saying everyone must do a research presentation at the event. Well, considering my time to do any research presentation was minimal and two weeks hardly gave me a chance to do a proper job, I did what any good baseball card maven would do, create a discussion group about, you guessed it, T-206.

Fortunately, despite my total lack of preparation except to begin the discussion by saying: "OK, why were so many different sets produced circa 1910 but so few in the first decade and then so few after 1915 and how did that change collecting" etc.

The seven of us had a lively 30-40 minute discussion on the subject.

After we finished our presentations, the subject came up about the faces of the deadball players. The word 'hardscrabble' doesn't begin to describe some of them. We agreed that Dick Egan was probably the ugliest of them all. So, my job before the SABR Convention in Boston, which I did end up attending, was to find a Dick Egan T-206 card to burn as a sacrifice to make sure the deadball committee would continue to flourish.

Luck was with me as I was able to go to the Fort Washington show and pick up a few copies to bring to Boston. At the end of the committee meeting I went up and started describing what we were going to do and why. There were several gasps in the room but fear not... we ended up auctioning off those cards to raise seed money for various SABR projects. So no cards ending up being damaged in the production of this article.

However, for those of you who might want to know more about Dick Egan and his face of horrors. Just check out this photo from a recent eBay listing.

Rich Klein can be reached at Sabrgeek@aol.com

[sportscardpete]

Rich -

Very nice! Wasn't aware of this website but I'm going to start reading. Thanks!

FYI sacrificing a card would probably lead to a cursed collecting career I'm glad you didn't do that.

[Leon]

I don't mind links to most related sites but I would like the content to be on our site too. That is why we exist. SportsCollectorsDaily is a good site run by a nice guy.