Zeenut thread

[AndrewJerome]

This thread is a Zeenut free for all. Post scans of recent pickups or old favorites below, or pose Zeenut thoughts / theories / questions.

What Z projects are you working on? Full years? Team subsets? Player subsets? Are there Z cards so elusive for you that you would like to just see a scan? I have been chasing Seattle Zeenuts for about 7 years. I would enjoy just seeing a scan of 37-38 Gabrielson (Sea) or 37-38 Muller (Sea).

I still find it shocking that no actual Zeenut packaging is known to have survived. Surely something has to be out there??

For those of you with 1911s, how many do you have with the "J.J. Collins" stamp? My only stamped 1911 is below, I know there is at least one other variation of the stamp.

Finally, after being at the top of my Z want list for years, my recent Z pickup is below.

Andrew

[Jacklitsch]

Cool card Andrew!

I collect 1911 also. Have one JJ Collins stamped back out of 120 or so. Need 2 to complete the set.

Also have put a run together though not all with coupons as Leon did.

Here is a back stamp on one of the 1911 cards:



Here is the only "corrected" card in the 1911 set. Discoll corrected to Driscoll:

[Leon]

Can we include E136 Home Run Kisses?

[Jacklitsch]

No Zeenut thread is complete without the goofy Leard pose:

[bbpostcards]

Nice Fatty. Here's Jimmy Claxton:

[dferguso1988]

Originally Posted by Jacklitsch

No Zeenut thread is complete without the goofy Leard pose:

That pose looks like the start of the Gangnam Style fad lol I knew PSY didn't come up with those moves himself...

[brianp-beme]

Leard is king of the goofy Zeenuts, but here are a few more, including a recent pickup of the Eddie Gaedel of the PCL, Dick Bayless (of course the Portland Cox as shown is a definite contender--pardon my euphemisms).

Brian

[dlfallen]

Erik Erickson - the only Swedish-born major league player to have a baseball card (2 Z's and a Willard's Chocolate).


I also collect Seattle Zeenuts, although I'm not as serious about it as Andrew. Of my 108 Zeenuts, none have a back stamp although one of them has a typed name (remeber typewriters?) on the back -- TOM CHRISTIAN

[philliesphan]

Steve-

I see your SGC 35 Leard and present you mine

[AndrewJerome]

Leon: HRK are always welcome, cool card.

Steve: interesting back stamp. I will dig through my cards, I know I have a few stamped by banks. Love the old back stamps.


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[AndrewJerome]

Wow that is a sharp Claxton, great card


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[caramelcard]

No packaging found in all these years. Back stamps. Maybe they weren't packaged...just given out. Steve's stamp supports that theory at least for the 11s.

Or the packaging was not the traditional candy box that we picture these in.

Nice Fatty Jerome.

Stories OK, right Andrew....

In 1928, former Chicago White Sox pitching prospect, Elmer Leifer, was signed by the Cle Elum-Roslyn Miners of the Central Washington League. Leifer had lost his eye in a collision with Travis Jackson in 1922, but had a pretty decent career as a pitcher in Montana, Canada, and eastern Washington throughout the 20's. Great SABR bio on him. He had one Zeenut card, 1919.

Leifer, instead played outfield for the Miners that season. He was beat out for the starting spot by Jimmy Claxton. Who, of course, had the above 1916 Zeenut. Pretty decent one-two punch for a lower rung of organized baseball....

[DHogan]

This is my favorite. It always makes me laugh. I collect cards with people named Hogan.