What is the story behind your moniker/avatar?

[Mdmtx]

Mine is a funny image of me at an unfunny time. It was tax day 2014 and I owed a bunch.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Mdmtx

Mine is a funny image of me at an unfunny time. It was tax day 2014 and I owed a bunch.

Awesome! Your expression fits the situation perfectly.

[slidekellyslide]

I've used the Slidekellyslide moniker ever since I got here in 2003. King Kelly is a favorite player of mine. My avatar is the cover of Guy W. Green's Nebraska Indians book.

[ullmandds]

Originally Posted by Mdmtx

Mine is a funny image of me at an unfunny time. It was tax day 2014 and I owed a bunch.

When i first saw yours i thought you were jeremy clarkson!

[53Browns]

A buddy of mine photoshopped my face on Mickey Mantle. I love it.

[Mountaineer1999]

Because Harry Lumley could rake !

�� Nah.....Harry was actually my first T206 and since then he and I have become family

[egri]

Mine is my one and only signed prewar card (for now, at least). It was a TTM request I sent sometime in October 2014. Back in 2005, I bought one of those cut signatures cards that had Doerr on it; that was the first autograph I ever bought, and what got me in to collecting them.

[Cmount76]

Needing two years of a foreign language in high school, I decided to take Italian my freshman year. After all, I am Italian. Showing up for that class proved to be difficult. I figured Spanish was relatively close, so I took that my sophomore year. Different year, same result.

My guidance counselor informed me that although I had already failed Spanish and Italian, that if I was going to graduate high school on time, I had two options - German or Sign Language. As I considered my options and threw my middle digit in the air at the idea of a foreign language, it dawned on me. I could do this sign language thing.

Needless to say, I graduated on time and am fluent in ASL.

The rest, as they say, is history...

[gnaz01]

Mine is a piece out of my collection that I really like a lot, so much so I just had it restored

[pherbener]

Mine is from a billboard right down the street from me. Factoryville, Pa. Matty's hometown!

[ullmandds]

A CJ Cobb is a card I never expected to ever own. I got this 1915 example cut from an advertising sheet. I like it because at the time the price was right, it was in nice looking shape, and its more rare than the regular issue.

I cropped a portion...and liked it and it has been by mojo for a while now.

[Michael Peich]

Mine is Fred Stoehr's T209-II card. I am a fan of early Southern minor league baseball cards. Stoehr twirled for Anderson/Roanoke (1908), and Goldsboro/Wilmington in 1909 and 1910. About five years ago I acquired letters he wrote to his fiancee/wife talking about life in the Southern minor leagues during the three seasons he played in the Virginia/Eastern Carolina Leagus. As a result of reading his letters, and incorporating some of the information into my website, i have become a fan of Old Baldy, feeling as though we are family.

Interesting thread!

Cheers, Mike

[kailes2872]

When I first got back into the hobby a few years ago and started collecting the Topps sets, I would spend a lot of time going through the albums. One player continued to stick out - literally (ears) and figuratively - my man, Don Mossi. I then saw how Al always featured a Don Mossi card in the LOTG auction and I knew that I had to represent.

I have to remind myself at times that David James really doesn't look like Eddie Plank, Wonka didn't look like Gene Wilder, Peter Speath wasn't Christy Mathewson, and Bob Evans isn't a green monster.

[mechanicalman]

In addition to being a Tigers fan, I grew up in Michigan and went to the University of Michigan, as did Gehringer. When I got back into the hobby, his 34 Goudey was my first purchase (though I love the color of the '33 more.) I've since completed the Basic Set on the PSA registry and continue to add more rare issues as I find them.

When it comes to collecting, I'd like to believe that I'm employing a mechanical-like approach to checking off my wish list, but more often than not, I let emotion drive my decisions.

[drcy]

Mine's a female vampire from Carl Dreyer's Vampyr (1932)

[brianp-beme]

My avatar until a few months ago was a pedestrian 1921 Zeenut that I do not own. Zeenuts are cool, however my current 1910 Obak of Williams avatar is not only much more colorful, but with the crossed arms and somewhat skeptical air Williams exhibits a sort of 'prove it to me' attitude. Which is only fitting since he has the mysterious and factually elusive F. Scott Fitzgerald 'F' stamp on his backside. A stamp which, perhaps just as fittingly, cannot be seen in the avatar.

Brian

[the 'stache]

Originally Posted by drcy

Mine's a female vampire from Carl Dreyer's Vampyr (1932)

Holy crap, David. I must have looked at your avatar 100 times, and I never made the connection. Carl Th. Dreyer was a genius. I got The Passion of Joan of Arc Masters of Cinema import in about three weeks ago, and can't wait to watch it for the first time (waiting to get my region free Blu-ray player). I can stream it on Hulu Plus, but I really want to experience it from physical media for the first time. I'm afraid that I'll stream it, I'll get frustrated not being able to watch the extras.

I've become a huge silent film fan. I buy more films from F.W. Murnau, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton et all than modern films now. It took me some 40 + years to truly embrace my classic and foreign film, but I can safely say I've found another passion.

I've been petitioning Criterion to upgrade Vampyr, Joan, and Ordet to Blu-ray.

[kmac32]

Mine is Elmer Miller who played for the Yankees in 1921 and 1922. He was the center fielder for the Yankees in the 1921 World Series and has the distinction of being the first Yankee to ever get a hit and also to score a run in a World Series. Kmac32 is short for Kenny Mac and 32 was my Cubs fantasy camp uniform number.

[Tao_Moko]

I spent most of my adult life in the Marine Corps and gained appreciation for the older style tattoos of those that came before me. My avatar is an old picture of painted wooden arms with tattoos that are much like my own. Tao_Moko has been my login for many things for many years. Combo of Chinese and Maori - "tao" and "Ta Moko".

[JollyElm]

Originally Posted by Mdmtx

Mine is a funny image of me at an unfunny time. It was tax day 2014 and I owed a bunch.

I swear to God, I honestly always thought yours was a goofy pic of Colin Quinn. I'm stunned that it isn't!!!

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[JollyElm]

My avatar is a couple of still shots (that are strung together) of me whacking a liner into right field during a 'celebrity' softball game for a radio show.

The entire world, except for my sisters, calls me 'Elms' or 'Elm' which has been my nickname forever. JollyElm is a play on the Jimmy Buffett song 'Jolly Mon.'

[Bocabirdman]

Scrolling eBay one day I came across this Rube for some silly, low price. I was amazed that once it fell to the shape it is in now, that someone back in the day decided to still keep it. I assume it was back in the day and not in these times of penny sleeves and top loaders. Once I got I in hand I was struck by the almost "folk art" nature of it.

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