Tell us of your experiences in completing (or near completing) your T206 set(s) ?

[LuckyLarry]

I started collecting cards again in 1988 when my oldest son brought home a pack of Donruss, and a couple years later I stopped buying new cards. In 1991 I got my first PC and with a handful of other collectors on the "Prodigy" network, formed OBC collecting club.

Twenty plus years later I'd completed most of my pre 1981 Topps, Bowman, and Fleer baseball football basketball and hockey sets. Like other OBC members, I became more interested in pre-war cards, and many of us have ended up here on Net54.

I joined Net54 in March 2013, and after the '13 Chicago National posted on the "Monster Number" thread with 152 different cards. After the '14 Cleveland National I checked in with 370 different cards. At the '15 Chicago National I picked up 45 hits and this got me to 484. I "completed" my set at 518 different 2/19/16 Shag Shaughnessy was the last needed card. So it took me about 3.5 years to complete my set.

I have my cards in a binder and will slowly upgrade some of the worst condition cards. I had to "crack" out 73 slabbed cards along the way Right now I have them in alphabetical order, but keep thinking they would look neat in team order. Here is a picture of my Cobbs page:



I remember learning about the Joe Doyle N.Y. Nat'l card, and after checking my binder, it appeared that I might have one? I know one in a million chance. It looked to me like back in 1911 some kid said "He's not an NL player" and scratched off the Nat'l part.



I sent the card off to my son in law who is a scientist, and he took a picture of it under magnification. Ted do you remember the thread I posted about this?



Anyway lots of fun, and thanks to all the Net54 members who helped me along the way, and a special thanks to Frank and all the guys that post on the "Monster Number" thread.

Larry

[tedzan]

Hi Larry

Thanks for chiming in with your T206 set story. And yes, I do remember your Joe Doyle thread (it was posted about a little over 2 years ago).

Say, were you at Mark Macrae's and mine booth last summer at the National ?


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[hangman62]

Awesome Thread here !

[LuckyLarry]

Originally Posted by tedzan

Say, were you at Mark Macrae's and mine booth last summer at the National ?
TED Z
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Yes I was there Ted and bought a few cards too!
Larry

[Bpm0014]

Here is my poor man's Joe Doyle. Still cost me a pretty penny....

[Bpm0014]

Close up. My iphone doesnt post great pics here for some reason. They all come out very small. But in real life, part of the "N" from "Nat'l" is extremely easy to see.

[tedzan]

Originally Posted by LuckyLarry

Yes I was there Ted and bought a few cards too!
Larry

Hey Larry

I just realized that you were my very first customer on Wednesday when the National opened to the public.

My recollection is that I sold you the Kleinow (Boston) and Smith (Chicago & Boston) T206 cards.

Will you be at Atlantic City this Summer ?


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[Bruinsfan94]

Originally Posted by LuckyLarry

I started collecting cards again in 1988 when my oldest son brought home a pack of Donruss, and a couple years later I stopped buying new cards. In 1991 I got my first PC and with a handful of other collectors on the "Prodigy" network, formed OBC collecting club.

Twenty plus years later I'd completed most of my pre 1981 Topps, Bowman, and Fleer baseball football basketball and hockey sets. Like other OBC members, I became more interested in pre-war cards, and many of us have ended up here on Net54.

I joined Net54 in March 2013, and after the '13 Chicago National posted on the "Monster Number" thread with 152 different cards. After the '14 Cleveland National I checked in with 370 different cards. At the '15 Chicago National I picked up 45 hits and this got me to 484. I "completed" my set at 518 different 2/19/16 Shag Shaughnessy was the last needed card. So it took me about 3.5 years to complete my set.

I have my cards in a binder and will slowly upgrade some of the worst condition cards. I had to "crack" out 73 slabbed cards along the way Right now I have them in alphabetical order, but keep thinking they would look neat in team order. Here is a picture of my Cobbs page:



I remember learning about the Joe Doyle N.Y. Nat'l card, and after checking my binder, it appeared that I might have one? I know one in a million chance. It looked to me like back in 1911 some kid said "He's not an NL player" and scratched off the Nat'l part.



I sent the card off to my son in law who is a scientist, and he took a picture of it under magnification. Ted do you remember the thread I posted about this?



Anyway lots of fun, and thanks to all the Net54 members who helped me along the way, and a special thanks to Frank and all the guys that post on the "Monster Number" thread.

Larry

Love seeing the t206's in binders! Would love to see more pages, great stuff.

[Yoda]

Ted, Your cataloging and collecting the T206 sets that you have in the past (particularly those elusive Sovereign reverses) is more than noteworthy; it must have been an odyssey, an expensive but highly satisfying one. You probably know much more about the famous Doyle history than I, but I do recall when I first starting sniffing around T206's (around 3 yrs old), there was no such error card. I believe, as the story goes, Larry Fritch ran across one with the Nat'l designation and then put an ad in SCD to buy any and all such cards and, voila, 1 or 2 appeared from the woodwork and a very expensive baseball card was born. Don't you love this s#@t? Ted, do you remember when Keith O., Alan Rosen (who?) and SGC all got into a 3 way dog fight about a graded Doyle Nat'l that had been altered, and not very well.
As I recall, it got very nasty. John

[Bpm0014]

My story:

My last name is Mullen. Bought a George Mullen (Mullin) portrait when I was about 13 back when I used to collect cards. I've always loved the autographs and memorabilia and never truly quit collecting, but I really didn't have any cards. Fast forward about 20 years and I find the Mullen card and tell myself "It would be pretty neat to put that set together". That was about 4 years ago. I'm a fairly big gambler, and whenever I have a good week (or good day at the poker tables) I buy almost anything T206 related. I have a cool collection of T206 player game used bats, 2 game used gloves, and I'm up to almost 500 cards (and I'm always updating/upgrading). For complete accuracy, I've also had 2 rough weeks gambling and sold some realllllllly nice cards haha. But I have all of the Southern Leaguers, all of the "commons", and some of the scarce/tough ones. I keep them all in a binder. Long story short, I need about 20 more.....

[tedzan]

Originally Posted by Bpm0014

My story:

My last name is Mullen. Bought a George Mullen (Mullin) portrait when I was about 13 back when I used to collect cards. I've always loved the autographs and memorabilia and never truly quit collecting, but I really didn't have any cards. Fast forward about 20 years and I find the Mullen card and tell myself "It would be pretty neat to put that set together". That was about 4 years ago. I'm a fairly big gambler, and whenever I have a good week (or good day at the poker tables) I buy almost anything T206 related. I have a cool collection of T206 player game used bats, 2 game used gloves, and I'm up to almost 500 cards (and I'm always updating/upgrading). For complete accuracy, I've also had 2 rough weeks gambling and sold some realllllllly nice cards haha. But I have all of the Southern Leaguers, all of the "commons", and some of the scarce/tough ones. I keep them all in a binder. Long story short, I need about 20 more.....

Hi Brendan

Very interesting story. Good luck at the gambling tables and on getting the last 20 cards for your set.


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[Bpm0014]

Thanks. Here are a couple of pics. All raw in binders....

[Bpm0014]

Pic 2

[tedzan]

Originally Posted by Yoda

Ted, Your cataloging and collecting the T206 sets that you have in the past (particularly those elusive Sovereign reverses) is more than noteworthy; it must have been an odyssey, an expensive but highly satisfying one. You probably know much more about the famous Doyle history than I, but I do recall when I first starting sniffing around T206's (around 3 yrs old), there was no such error card. I believe, as the story goes, Larry Fritch ran across one with the Nat'l designation and then put an ad in SCD to buy any and all such cards and, voila, 1 or 2 appeared from the woodwork and a very expensive baseball card was born. Don't you love this s#@t? Ted, do you remember when Keith O., Alan Rosen (who?) and SGC all got into a 3 way dog fight about a graded Doyle Nat'l that had been altered, and not very well.
As I recall, it got very nasty. John

Hi John

I well recall that Rosen / KO fiasco. I was at the BB card show in Philadelphia where the setting for that scenario began. It was the Summer of 1990 (or 1991), Alan Rosen
had his usual booth at the entrance of the show. And, 707Sportscards were at the nearby booth.

An original collection of T206's in an album "walks-in" to Rosen. As usual Rosen quickly flips thru the plastic pages, and asked the guy what he wanted for the entire album
of T206's. The guy replies with a number, and Rosen says...."too much".

Then the guy walks over to 707Sportscards, and Jimmy carefully looks thru the cards in the album. He spots the Doyle Nat'l card in it. And of course, 707Sportscards buys
this T206 collection.

Rosen finds out about this and goes "ballistic" ! Whatever, this story gets crazier. That same weekend, another guy approaches Rosen with some T206's. And, guess what ?
Included in this lot of cards is another Doyle Nat'l card ! !

What is the probability of "lightning striking twice" at the same show ? ? In 1990, only 5 legitimate cards of the Doyle Nat'l card were known in the hobby.

I guess Rosen was so anxious to get this Doyle card, that he didn't see that it was an obvious fake. He bought it and flipped it to KO. And, the rest is history.


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[tedzan]

Originally Posted by Bruinsfan94

Love seeing the t206's in binders! Would love to see more pages, great stuff.

Here is a page out of my all SOVEREIGN set. All my T206 sets are in loose leaf binders. The cards are arranged in order of the T206 series timeline (150....350....So Lge....
350/460....460-only).

Graded cards are identified as this SOVEREIGN 150 Walter Johnson is.


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TED Z
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