Show us your (current) favorite T206!

[njdunkin1]

A few threads have given this a try in years past, but, because of their age (and use of Photobucket), many of the images no longer exist.

In order to avoid clutter, please limit your choice to one card with a medium-sized image, if possible.

Also--take a few sentences to explain why this card is (currently) your favorite. Everyone loves a good backstory!

Here is mine:

At this past year's National, I was hoping to find one card and one card only--a Johnny Kling Hindu for my attempt at a back run. No such luck, but a very kind gentleman sold me this neat Kling, shown below. It's currently my favorite, not for value, but because it reminds me of the time I got to spend at the National with great friends.

What's your favorite T206?

-NJ

[charlietheexterminator]

I have many cards I love, but this card is my favorite to look at.

[commishbob]

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Christy Mathewson is from Factoryville, Pa. From the late 50s to the late 60s I spent much of my summer vacations there staying with my Aunt Mary and Uncle Al. There isn't much in or around Factoryville. Mostly we sat on their front porch up on that hill and enjoyed the views of valleys and trees. At night my uncles and my Dad would go to the one bar in the area. They would take me and some of my cousins when we were teens and many intense bar shuffleboard games ensued. That's where I learned to appreciate pickled eggs from a jar and Hires root beer from a bottle.

My Uncle Al was probably the only other collector in my extended family. He had a few cards but mostly he collected baseball publications He loved books, guides and magazines. When he passed on some years ago my aunt sent me a box of his stuff. Nothing extraordinary but all of it priceless...to me.

I remember those summer days in the northeast Pennsylvania hills when I look at this card.

It’s raw and ragged but it was my first T206 purchased when I got a job and was making money. Might have cost $15 or $20.

[commishbob]

Originally Posted by charlietheexterminator

I have many cards I love, but this card is my favorite to look at.

As a Bender collector I must say this make me very envious. Cool card for sure.

[njdunkin1]

Chuck and Bob--great cards and stories. Always special when you have a card that embodies a unique memory like that!

[steve B]

If I had to pick just one, it would probably be this one.


1977 I moved to a new town, and asking kids about baseball cards got both odd looks - since I was a high school freshman- and the info that just in the center of town there was a whole store for cards.
Oh the things they had!
Up till then, the only idea I had about cards older than 1969 came from the Hank Aaron specials from 74, and one 1968 I'd traded for.
I really liked the T206s, which they'd put in pockets on 3x5 cards with the players name and some stats. I liked the sort of pastel images and scenery, and would stop by pretty much every chance I had to hang out and talk cards, or just spend a bunch of time looking. But the nice ones were just a bit more than I was willing to spend. a whole 1.50 !
One day the said hello, and by the way we've got something we saved for you. A T206! Not in great shape, in fact almost torn all the way across the upper left corner. But only 20 cents, and it was a Polar bear back. After I showed it off to mom and dad I had a little less trouble getting some extra spending money and eventually would buy more.

So I suppose my first T206 is still my favorite, because it's the card that started me collecting prewar cards. (The file cabinet of 60's-70's commons did the same for the then more modern stuff)

[DeanH3]

My first Cobb and first T206.

[T206Collector]

My current favorite is my avatar.

[MVSNYC]

This is my favorite T206 I own. IMO, this pose is one of the most beautiful in the set.

[CMIZ5290]

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[TheBig6]

[CMIZ5290]

Originally Posted by TheBig6

Great choice Jerry! beauty!

[TheBig6]

Thanks Kevin, there’s so many good choices

[kdixon]

This is my favorite T206. It is of Zach Wheat and was owned by Zach. It came out of his scrapbook. In fact have his entire Brooklyn T206 team set from the same scrapbook. Zach was born in my hometown and I have been collecting him for about 35 years.

[HawkFan70]

My Dad bought this for my newborn son 18 years ago...

[Bill77]

This was my 6th T206, the 2nd after I was done buying T206 cards. The seller had 2 other T206 cards for sale both the same player (can't remember who it was) with Tolstoi backs. I tried for those 1st because I figured that with most of the backs gone I could get a Tolstoi cheap. After those sold for $40+ each I decided to bid on the Tom Needham Piedmont card he had. While waiting for it to arrive I kept looking at it trying to figure out what I could about what the series it was and what it shoud look like when I finally noticed that it wasn't a Piedmont card and that for $14.99 and $4.00 shipping I got the best deal on a Tolstoi card than the other 2 cards would have been. It is also the 1st card I ever soaked. The back looks better in hand than the scan.

[ullmandds]

My first t206...c1980...$2.

[ZenPop]

I bought this off frankbmd (our fellow board member), and it was my very first and still favorite t206 card. He sent a nice note about the history of "Doc" Powers...

So I bought my first card (a catcher who was also a doctor... who was part of a battery in a game that featured a doctor pitching to a doctor...) from a doctor.

Powers was probably the first player in baseball to die from injuries suffered on the field. (he crashed into a wall at Shibe Park chasing a foul ball and died two week later from the internal injuries).

It's a beautiful card and the story behind it makes it all the more special to me.
I never cared about condition of cards... I kind of like the rough or marked up ones. Someday I'll get all my Giants (and both Matty's), but for now, this is the card. Thanks, Frank!

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[VintageBen]

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[joshuanip]

Originally Posted by MVSNYC

This is my favorite T206 I own. IMO, this pose is one of the most beautiful in the set.

Wow. What a card!

[commishbob]

Loving this thread. Some wonderful cards with backstories. Keep ‘em coming please!

[pawpawdiv9]

The T206 I love seeing is owned by Sean. Its his ghost missing color looking Plank.
I do not have but 2 T206's at the moment (chance & cobb-red)
But I love looking at my posters everyday:

[mechanicalman]

Sorry for the redundancy, but my submission would also be a Cobb Bat Off. Aside from being one of my first T206s, it happens to be one of my wife's favorite cards. Every time we see a beautiful technicolor sunset now, she says it's a "Ty Cobb sunset." Cheesey, I know.

[jbl79]

My favorite and only T206 right now . Don't have a cool story but love looking at it...

[Rhotchkiss]

This is my all-time favorite. I bought one of these raw decades ago as a kid, and that’s when my love for t206 started. Over the years, I have been in and out of collecting, but each time I got back in, this was one of the first poses/cards I would get- it’s like my personal flag that I am back. Honestly, I think it’s a very ugly card; Cy looks like fat and over the hill, which I guess he was when t206 came out- maybe that’s another reason I love it so much.

[Touch'EmAll]

I'll jump in with a couple I really like, ahh the colors!

[Luke]

Cool thread idea! Love seeing everyone's choices. Today, this Crawford is my favorite. This front/back combo was at the top of my want-list for a couple years before I snagged this one. 3 or 4 years ago, I passed on the only other copy that I'd seen for sale. It had some creasing, tape and paper loss and I just thought a nicer one would come along. I had started to regret it quite a bit and then this card showed up for sale in a major auction. It was part of a larger Old Mill lot, which I was very thankful for. I was hoping the larger lot would keep some bidders from wanting to bother with it. It wasn't cheap but it certainly would have gone for more if it had been marketed properly (as the highest graded copy of the toughest Crawford Throwing pose).

[tedzan]

My all-time favorite T206 is this Hal Chase. It is my very first T206 card, which I acquired in 1981 at the famous Willow Grove (PA) Show.
Chase is my favorite player from the deadball era.






Two years ago, I finally completed my SWEET CAPORAL, Factory #30 set (468-cards) when I acquired this Eddie Plank.

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I'm undecided as to which of these cards is currently my favorite. Therefore, I have displayed both of them.



TED Z

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[3-2-count]

Nice cards everyone. Has and always will be my favorite T206.

[Blunder19]

Nice Plank Ted... great looking card!

My favorite (currently).. is the card dubbed by some... the T206 Rosetta stone.. a truly unique T206 with a Brown Old Mill Back and a ghost image of Cy Young..

An interesting note.... The history of this card can be traced all the way back to the original owner .... an very nice article was written on it by thatT206life.com:

http://www.thatt206life.com/2017/12/...stone-of-t206/

[Pat R]

I know you said one card and it's two but they share one continuous
mark and they're also plate scratch neighbors.

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[Jobu]

This is tied at #1 for my favorite card image and I have always liked WaJo. Toss in a tough back, nice centering, and "good for the grade", and you can count me in!

Some great cards in this thread. Jerry, I love the red Cobb - that is an outstanding 2.0!

[Rich Falvo]

Until I can snag one of the rarer backs, this EPDG is the favorite in my collection. The scan is terrible. It's a nice SGC 40.

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[Pat R]

Originally Posted by Jobu

This is tied at #1 for my favorite card image and I have always liked WaJo. Toss in a tough back, nice centering, and "good for the grade", and you can count me in!

Some great cards in this thread. Jerry, I love the red Cobb - that is an outstanding 2.0!

Ditto on yours Bryan

[jbl79]

Originally Posted by Jobu

This is tied at #1 for my favorite card image and I have always liked WaJo. Toss in a tough back, nice centering, and "good for the grade", and you can count me in!

Some great cards in this thread. Jerry, I love the red Cobb - that is an outstanding 2.0!

Thanks Bryan! Love the T206 WaJo portrait. That's another one of my favorites I need to add to the collection. I'll settle for a centered WaJo common back

[Sean]

Originally Posted by MVSNYC

This is my favorite T206 I own. IMO, this pose is one of the most beautiful in the set.

Great choice Mike. I think that that Cobb is the best looking card in the set.

[Sean]

Originally Posted by Blunder19

Nice Plank Ted... great looking card!

My favorite (currently).. is the card dubbed by some... the T206 Rosetta stone.. a truly unique T206 with a Brown Old Mill Back and a ghost image of Cy Young..

An interesting note.... The history of this card can be traced all the way back to the original owner .... an very nice article was written on it by thatT206life.com:

http://www.thatt206life.com/2017/12/...stone-of-t206/

Hey Jaime, I never realized that you were the one who got this card from Leon. Congratulations.

[Sean]

Originally Posted by pawpawdiv9

The T206 I love seeing is owned by Sean. Its his ghost missing color looking Plank.

Hi Chris, since you mentioned it, here's Plank:


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[Sean]

Great thread NJ. Here's one of my favorites, with a back story.

I started collecting cards in 1965 at the age of eight. My favorite card in the '65 Topps set was Yastrzemski. He wasn't famous yet, but I loved the pose. I really thought that they had caught him in the act of catching a fly ball.

When I started collecting T206s, I noticed that Mitchell appeared with the same pose. That's why its a favorite. It reminds me of that 50 year old Yaz.


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[Sean]

Sorry to be so prolific, but while we're talking about our favorite T206 cards, here is my dream card. If I could have any one card in the world, it wouldn't be a Wagner, BN Ruth, or Anson in uniform. It would be this T206 Eddie Collins:


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[frankbmd]

The best story I have has been told before. (http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=147783)

Mr. Waddell was first owned by Nelson Tisdel, who stamped and signed the back of this card. It stayed in the Tisdel family and was passed on to his son. In the early '40s Tisdel's son had a trading partner who traded T206s. Mr. Waddell was traded to Gordon Soutter, who also signed the card. Mr. Soutter kept the card for 70 years, until a lady in Utah sold the card on eBay. I purchased the card on eBay and was curious enough to ask the seller if she knew who Gordon Soutter was. She was kind enough to reply "I know him well. He's my husband." She also provided the details of the trade that her husband made to obtain the card in his childhood.

Bingo. Provenance established. Tisdel to Tisdel to Souttar to Burke++.

This is the one I will keep in the family for another 70 years.

[MartyFromCANADA]

Obviously.

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[njdunkin1]

Steve: wonderful Beckley and fantastic story. The more “worn”, the more loved!
Dean: That Cobb is excellent. “Top 4” in the set, one might say .
Jerry: The Waddell in action is one of the most colorful action poses, and yours is no exception. Great card!
Kenny: Always love a good Wheat, especially a Wheat that came from Wheat! Awesome card and story.
Chris: Keep that Cobby forever!
Bill: Awesome story and great Tolstoi. Very underrated back, great soaking, too!
Pete: A Christy for $2, even “back in the day”, is always a good investment. Very, very cool!
John: Doc has a really unique card; great story and scan!
Ben: Great Cobby. The green will always stay hip.
Chris (M.): Awesome posters, brother. Always a good reminder too see what the cards were like fresh off the press.
Sam: A cherished card with a cherished individual. Great story!
Jerry: Very undergraded, awesome piece.
Luke: Patience is definitely a virtue, and it really paid off on that Crawford! Didn’t know the OM was so tough. Great card.
Ted: Don’t ever stop Chasing the Planks (witty fail). Great cards.
Tony: A beautiful portrait. One of my faves from the set!
Jamie: One of the founding fathers of the T-206 set. The stories that card could tell!
Pat: Great story, that plate scratch definitely adds some great history.
Bryan: A good Hindu with an even better player makes for a delightful combo. Beauty!
Rich: “The Jimster” is iconic. Great piece.
Sean: Really, really cool background on the Mitchell. Had never noticed the likeness but it is actually striking. Great story! (Also—that Collins proof has got to be yours someday. Truly a 1of1. Any luck reaching out to Olbermann?)
Frank: Awesome history. A multigenerational card.
Marty: Never hurts to have a card you have a personal connection to. Great stuff.

Apologies if I missed you, great cards all around, everyone!

[nat]

Frank, you should sign the back of that card!

[sb1]

This one as of today. Red Cobb with amazing color and registration.

[usernamealreadytaken]

Izzy BL

[Rich Falvo]

Originally Posted by usernamealreadytaken

Izzy BL

Was hoping that one would show up. One of my favorite cards that I don’t own. Great card!

[MVSNYC]

Originally Posted by nat

Frank, you should sign the back of that card!

+1

I thought the same!

Thanks for the nice comments on the Cobb...Awesome cards, everyone. Sean’s Plank, Jamie’s Freak, Tony’s Tinker...on and on.

[ZenPop]

Originally Posted by nat

Frank, you should sign the back of that card!

YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!

...and... you really should!!

[pherbener]

Originally Posted by nat

Frank, you should sign the back of that card!

I was thinking the same thing!