Pedestrianism

[Rad_Hazard]

Just in case anyone ever wondered about those 19th century cards with the person listed as a "Pedestrian".

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2...-than-football

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by Rad_Hazard

Just in case anyone ever wondered about those 19th century cards with the person listed as a "Pedestrian".

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/2...-than-football

long article and lot's of information and stories of many of the walkers.
Never knew most of it so it was a good read

Thanks for sharing

[G1911]

Great article. Here's my favorite Pedestrian, the only one in the T218 set. He has some other cards, and a couple of modern biographies. This is all 4 of his cards in the T218 family, the upper left is the tough C52. Bottom right is the common variation.

[michael3322]

There are books on Weston too. See:


Another famous pedestrian was Hart, who also played baseball.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Hart_(athlete)

Hart's card from 1880 in an SGC 2, sold for $5,276 in March.

See: https://youtu.be/Z_pql3vdoqI?t=64

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by michael3322

There are books on Weston too. See:


Another famous pedestrian was Hart, who also played baseball.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Hart_(athlete)

Hart's card from 1880 in an SGC 2, sold for $5,276 in March.

See: https://youtu.be/Z_pql3vdoqI?t=64

Wow that HART pedestrian card is a cool card and never realized they could go for that much

[michael3322]

The Hart card has a lot of historical significance, as the Wikipedia article notes.

Also, they are very rare.

PSA has only 1 graded (highest is a PSA 2)
SGC has only 4 graded (highest is an SGC 2)

[jenkin55]

Just listed my T218 of Weston, the grand champion of pedestrianism. Listed in the tobacco (non-T206) forum.