Unique Cards

[Zach Wheat]

How about a card of "Colby" Jack Coombs? If you want a card of this player, you pretty much have to stick to a T201 as he was left out of the major T sets. He is not found in other T sets of this era but was one of the dominant players in the 1910-ish era.

He picked up the nickname "Colby" due to his college affiliation - Colby College in Waterville, Maine. He threw a shut out in the first game he pitched - 3 weeks after graduating from college. 1910 was his best year - a year in which many of the more well know card sets of this era were designed/planned/issued/distributed - but curiously he was left out of every set except the T201 set.

In 1910 he had 31 wins and 13 shut outs. His ML single season record of 13 shutouts would stand for 103 years. He was not an accomplished hitter during the season batting in the low 200's; however, he led the Phil A's to the World Series starting & winning games 2,3 & 5 against the NL Chic Cubs - while batting 0.385.



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[Tim Kindler]

Zach Wheat,
I love the info on Jack Coombs and thanks for sharing it, but I believe this is also the same Jack Coombs. These are from my E98 Master Set.

Keep the ideas coming. These are some of the ideas I'm talking about

[cdn_collector]

Had to think about this one for a bit. Eventually I landed on an e107 of Deacon Phillippe in recognition of his absolutely ridiculous performance in the 1903 World Series. This to me, is a historically significant card because of that performance.

Regards,

Richard.

[z28jd]

Harry Whiteacre in the Old Judge set is a pretty interesting card. He never played in the majors or minors. He was a semi-pro player local to the A's and was trying out for the team at the time they took team pictures. He ended up in the set anyway

[joeadcock]

Originally Posted by z28jd

Harry Whiteacre in the Old Judge set is a pretty interesting card. He never played in the majors or minors. He was a semi-pro player local to the A's and was trying out for the team at the time they took team pictures. He ended up in the set anyway

Interesting

[Leon]

You might consider making a list of cards that are visually pleasing to you, regardless of significance. We "look" at the cards visually, and admire their artwork, so I don't think having a lot of them be based on their outer appeal would be a bad thing. Just a thought....This Oakes always seems to pop up on these lists...

[ReefBlue]

Or go with some weird theme.

Only cards where the guy has his left arm in the air.

Or the person is on one knee.

Regardless of the set--card #3.

[PolarBear]

1973 Topps Luis Alvarado is one of the strangest cards of all time. I love it.

Another suggestion would be the 1953 Bowman color set. Only 160 cards and the best looking post war set hands down.

You could branch out from just baseball and do an N28 or N162 set.

T206 Polar Bear set would be nice also.

[tuckr1]

These T206 cards with teh victorian "F" stamp supposedly are from the childhood T206 collection of the author of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitgerald, pretty cool