??'s for black sox collectors

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Posted By: dennis

do you just collect cards of the players banned? or all white sox team members from 1919. other players involved...chase? news paper clippings/other memoribilia etc? series stuff? cincinnati players cards? being a sox fan this area of collecting interests me. are you present day sox fans?

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Posted By: Frank Evanov

I just collect the guys involved. They are the true "black sox". My interest began after seeing the movie.

Frank

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Posted By: davidcycleback

Dennis, you can collect Black Sox memorabilia in any fashion you wish. Though the focus will almost always been on Joe Jackson, Buck Weaver and other banned players, there are no rules and different Black Sox fans collect in different ways. A 1919 Reds yearbook or season pass would be popular at marked due to the association ... Interestingly, one of the gamblers involved in the fix was a man named Abe Attell. Attell was earlier a great boxer, world champion and there are quality boxing cards and other memorabilia for him ...

Due to the scarcity and value of the vintage Eight Men Out material, a new Black Sox collector on a normal budget shouldn't be too exclusive in his focus. Widen the fences and you will pick up more. While the collector waits for the Joe Jackson World Series jersey to show up on eBay, it wouldn't hurt to pick up a Attell boxing card or a Buck Weaver press photo to bide the time.

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Posted By: Dan Koteles

Ray Schalk is widely collected from "true Black SOx fans", just check his price when items go for sale. His Cracker Jack card is a classic.

Good luck

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Posted By: Julie

doesn 't work for me, but it may for you..whimper...): the new commissioner (Landis), the owner (Comiskey), the magager (Gleason), the gamblers on cards because of sporting activities (Burns and Attell), Ray Schalk, the Sox' great catcher (because one of the charges against them read "conspiracy to defraud Ray Schalk"--(I can just see him, yelling at his pitchers, having a fit...), Eddie Collins (big and well-paid star who did nothing in the Series), Dickie Kerr (pitcher, not in on the fix, who won two games...photos of all of them, and a World Series ticket stub from the 5th game.

You can collect any and everything you want...including just Reds' stuff!
Wish I had a photo of The Big Bankroll..

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Posted By: davidcycleback

The Black Sox World Series was a historical event, and there were many actors and side stories in the story. There's no rule one has to stick to the 8 players. You could collect items from the presiding judges and ticket taker if you wished.

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Posted By: Scott Elkins

I am sure Brian Daniels will send you a pic. of himself if you asked him!

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Posted By: Julie

I couldn't think of his name for a minuite...

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Posted By: identify7

I do not collect the players who got banned. However, I did select a CJ Comiskey because he looks like the pompous heartless person that he turned out to be. Also t206 Gandil and Burns which to me shows them as contemporaries, and Attell. These to me constitute the heart of the conspiricy. The others are viewed by me as persons who were set up and used.

I have Cicotte and Williams because they along with Kerr and Faber in 1920 formed a set of four twenty game winners on the same team.