Speaking of Polls

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Posted By: Steve Murray

We have a new one. See link above and vote.

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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

And I thought of Colgans Chips as gum cards, since the "chips" were flavored gum. Was always kinda tickled that the first baseball gum cards were from Kentucky...

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Posted By: leon

Ya gotta be careful around here.....Are you sure the first ones came from KY?

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Posted By: Sean BH

What about e91's? Nothing like seeing the same face over and over for different players.



Sean BH

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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

I beg your pardon, Leon. Somewhere I have an article about Colgans, not the cards, the pharmacist, the guy who bought the railroad car of chicle and decided to add flavoring, so he could sell it for people to chew. I have that article somewhere, it was in Louisville's newspaper, the Courier Journal. My recollection is that Colgan was the first guy to add flavoring to gum...

That is definitely an older card. Why weren't E223s listed in the poll for caramel cards, if E254s were?

FW

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Posted By: leon

Other 1.90 %


I don't think there was room to put every single one so Brian put down the most popular ones and a catch all.....It should be interesting...and please, no ballot box stuffers

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Posted By: Bob

"I really don't like caramel cards" has 7.3%?????
Communists....

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Posted By: Steve Murray

that when this poll was suggested it contained the words "20th Century" in the title.

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Posted By: Fred C

Bob,

It's a good thing you put that smiley face at the end of the post otherwise we'd start calling you E-Bob....

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Posted By: JimB

Is the E95 and E96 combo meant to be a handicap? I realize they were parts I and II of Philadelphia Caramel's offerings, like N28 and N29, but do they need a handicap?
JimB

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Posted By: leon

And Brian is getting run right over....as I am throwing him under it...Don't know why the handicap.....Personally of those two I like E96 but there's no Cobby or Matty...the red backs are cool though....and some of he E96 poses are very cool and more scarce too....a little better than the E95's, imo....but this is like chocolate and vanilla.....just depends on which you like better....Don't know why they were necessarily lumped....

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Posted By: JimB

Leon,
I agree. In general I like the look of the E96 set better, but the player selection is so much better in E95. E96 was like the second string. And the top HOFs (Wagner, Matty, Cobb) are also among the best looking cards in the E95 set imho.
JimB

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Posted By: Anonymous

While E96 is definitely scarcer(which is a disadvantage for the set to me) E95's are a bit better looking IMO. With the strong showing of HOF's and a little more ease in collecting I went with E95 over collecting E96, though i would love to add Baker, Brown, Tinker or Clarke to my collection which are all great looking non portraits of HOF'ers. Funny thing is I think they are arguably my favorite cards in the set and it had nothing to do with them being HOF'ers i just thought the poses and colors were really cool.

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Posted By: Jason L

"I really hate the issues with generic depictions of ballplayers that bear no resemblence to the specific player named - because those are stupid"?
I would vote for that one every day of the week and 3 times on Sundays

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Posted By: Bob

Query: If more people who voted in the poll voted for "don't like caramel cards" than the total number who picked E94s as their favorite set, how come so many people bid against me whenever E94s come up? Are we a small but dedicated group who are driving the prices up while no one else cares a flip about them? Strange...
tbob