1887 A.D. (Here comes de judge)

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Here are mine...............

[jimivintage]

As always, Phil, I'm very jealous of your RC collection. Nice group! I haven't owned an OJ in about 8 years when I owned a Ward. I think I got the SGC 10 back then for around $80. Ugh.....

[SmokyBurgess]

Love the Ed Delehanty! Too bad he got pushed off that train (as the story goes). Great old cards.

[jimivintage]

Yes, not only did he supposedly jump off that bridge into the Niagra Falls, but he's famous also for a pretty "shameful" home run:

Delahanty was also the victim behind one of "The Most Shameful Home Runs of All Time" according to the third edition of Bruce Nash and Allan Zullo's series, "The Baseball Hall of Shame." In July 1892, when Delahanty's Phillies hosted Cap Anson's Chicago White Stockings at Philadelphia's Huntingdon Street Grounds (aka National League Park), Anson hit a fly ball to center in the top of the eighth inning. The ball hit a pole and landed right in the "doghouse," a feature unbeknownst to everyone then until that moment; it was used to store numbers for the manually run scoreboard. Delahanty tried to get the ball (it was still in play) by first reaching over the doghouse, then crawling down into it, but on the latter attempt, he got stuck, and by the time teammate Sam Thompson had freed Delahanty from the area, Anson crossed home plate on what the "Baseball Hall of Shame" book calls an "inside-the-doghouse home run."

Yikes!

Jimi