Most Prevalent Card Owned By Net 54'ers

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Posted By: peter ullman

So guys and gals...what card do y'all think is owned by the most people on net54...I'd venture possibly a t206 red cobb. I do not own one...but that's my guess!

pete in mn

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

George Bush/Mickey Mantle Derek Jeter 2007 Topps card.

On a serious note I'll go with the E90 Rebel Oakes card...that one seems to be a favorite here.

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Posted By: Dave F

Hmm...I would almost think there are more folks here that would own a Matty T206 portrait than a Red Cobb.

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Posted By: Patrick McMenemy

Since Bresnahan is one of the most prevalent cards in the T206 set and a Hall of Famer, either pose would be my guess.

Patrick

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Posted By: Anonymous

T206=most prevalent set, cobb and matty are popular, but also pricey, maybe a more common but still popular hof'er like Chance, yellow portrait? Doesnt everyone have a Jennings too, I sure do.

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Posted By: anthony

i'd go with a lower grade matty or johnson portrait

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Posted By: leon

T206 Matty.....maybe a Jennings E90-1 or some other easy HOF'er....

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Posted By: T206Collector

For sure it is a T206 card, but the question will be, "which one?"

I would also say it is fairly likely to be one of the 6 so-called "Super Prints."

Chance (Port. Yellow)
Chase (Port. Blue)
Chase (Dark Cap)
Cobb (Port. Red)
Evers (Chi. Shirt)
Mathewson (Dark Cap)

I think that either of these Chases or the Chance are most likely, though having purged my collection recently, I am left without the Chance Yellow or Cobb Red. Interestingly, when I put together my (now incomplete) T206 set, one of the last cards I needed to add was Cobb Red. I just figured it would always be really easy to add that one. So, I had 500+ different T206 cards, but not one of them was a Red Cobb.

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Posted By: Dave F

I would imagine it would have to be some T206 card....there are just so many of them even compared to E90's. We could probably get a rough idea looking at Bill Brown's data sheet..but then again, most people here haven't contributed what they have to that effort.

Matty portrait would be my first choice still....Cobb is too expensive even in a PSA 1..although that is one of my goal's by year end.

How about a Young portrait?
Bobby Wallace is another T206 I see all over the place..and I have that.

The suggestion of the Chance yellow isn't bad...but I dont have it! I have the Chance red!

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Posted By: Steve Murray

I don't collect T206 anymore yet I still have from Paul's super print list:


Chase (Port. Blue)
Chase (Dark Cap)
Evers (Chi. Shirt)
Mathewson (Dark Cap)

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Posted By: Dave F

Steve...the Chase blue is another good one...I've had four in the past four weeks!

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Posted By: Chad

And the closest he came to a Negro League was Rube Foster teaching him the fade away.

--Chad

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Posted By: Jason L

a 1976 Hank Aaron
...and a T206 Joss

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Posted By: RayPiskadlo

My guesses would be:

Chase Blue Portrait
Cobb Red Portrait
Speaker (he only has one card)

non-T206:

T205 Matty

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Posted By: JK

Matty (black cap)
Cobb (red)

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Posted By: Mark L

Eddie Collins

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Posted By: steve

Cobb, red
Mathewson, dk

just to throw out something different - 1973 Hank Aaron & 1976 Nolan Ryan cards

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Posted By: Chris Counts

How about the 1913 game card of Nap Lajoie? If it's not the easiest pre-war card to find, it has to be the best bargain. I picked mine up for about $20 a couple years ago. It's a beautiful card.

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Posted By: peter chao

T-206 Walter Johnson Portrait...because there are probably more portrait collectors on this forum and this would be a good place to start.

Peter

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Posted By: Steve Murray

Blue or Red? I have a blue Lajoie.

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Posted By: Ed

Chase portrait pink or blue. I can't understand the fascination with this guy (though I have it). Is it the duality of man mystery (great player, charming rogue/crook)?

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Posted By: J Levine

Are we talking the card that is owned by the largest number of Net54s or are we talking about what card within the group of Net54s is seen most often. If the former is the case I would venture to say the t206 matty dark cap...the later I would say that darn OBAK of Miller the Mr. Miller owns like 100 of.

Joshua

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Posted By: T206Collector

...the question is the card which most number of Net54'ers currently own, so multiples of the same cards in possession of one or two Net54'ers only count as one each.

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Posted By: peter ullman

dagnabit...I only have the white cap matty!

pete in mn

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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

I don't think the "most owned" card is a T206 Hall of Famer...

I'd think it is a T206 of Kaiser Wilhelm, or Rube Kisinger... someone like that. A 350 series or a common minor leaguer.

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Posted By: nbrazil

most popular pre war set: T206
most popular card type in T206: portrait
most popular pre war player: Ty Cobb
most available (and least expensive) portrait type of Ty Cobb: Red

My guess: T206 Ty Cobb Red Portrait.

I guarantee you other Cobb cards would be owned more (the e cards specifically)...but price and scarcity always get in the way.

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Posted By: T206Collector

...a dark capped Matty. About half a dozen less Red Cobbs and Blue Chases, though I didn't count particualrly carefully.

Can anyone prove more than 28 Net54'ers own another pre-war card other than a dark capped Matty?

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Posted By: Glenn

I imagine more than 28 own a yellow Chance, but no, I guess I can't prove it.

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Posted By: peter chao

In general, T-206 portraits are more popular, even if there aren't more Hal Chase portraits, I would think that possible there are more T-206 Walter Johnson portraits out there.

Peter

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Posted By: Steve Murray

I do not have a Yellow Chance nor a Red Cobb nor a Johnson Portrait nor a Matty Portrait.

Though I have had them in the past

I do have the Blue Chase and Dark cap Matty and they are in the count.

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Posted By: Glenn

Well, I don't have any T206s. I had a yellow Chance once upon a time, but I gave that one away. I've never owned any of the others mentioned in this thread.

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Posted By: Gilbert Maines

I ain't too chicken to cry Fowl !

This lynching party is on a Witch hunt, and Matty don't float.

Specifically, the approach used to arrive at the conclusion drawn is faulty. That is, we have conducted a survey recently which indicated that nominally one third of the collectors have an interest in card backs. Even stretching that into ALL of those one third collect t206, there does not exist evidence that the most significantly held card by Net 54 members is not a Goudey.

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Posted By: peter chao

Gil,

Interesting thought, but which Goudey card.

Peter

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Posted By: Gilbert Maines

My vote is that the answer is cards from the renowned Orsatti Collection. Not an individual player, rather a set of Goudey cards.

Edited to add: Another respondent claims that you can't ignore the guy who was ending up his career with a .349 lifetime BA.

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Posted By: T206Collector

...and right now there's a thread with 29 different Net54'ers chiming in with their T206 Matty Dark caps. I'd be happy to see any evidence of a pre-war baseball card more widely owned by Net54'ers.

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

No doubt it's the Matty dark cap: it's the most affordable and common of all of the cards of the biggest 'collectible' stars of the T206--Matty and Cobb.

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Posted By: Dave F

Was there enough reason to believe there would be enough Chance yellow's to come close?

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Posted By: Glenn

There was for me, but I don't want to start the thread.

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Posted By: peter chao

Counted 19 T206-Walter Johnson Portraits and 9 T206-Walter Johnson in pitching postion owned by Net54 members. I'm going to take a final tally on Tuesday of the coming week. Have a good weekend.

Peter