December autograph pickups

[mighty bombjack]

Wow! Two excellent Heilmann's. And you are going to pass me by soon, taz. I'm sitting at 250 (a number not likely to move until new members go in).

[HOFAUTOS]

Picked up this single signed Foxx baseball. Heading to JSA later this week

[tazdmb]

Originally Posted by mighty bombjack

. And you are going to pass me by soon, taz. I'm sitting at 250 (a number not likely to move until new members go in).

Soon? Probably not, Cobb and Comiskey are probably the only 2 under $1k that I need, after that-who knows???? You know I avoid cuts whenever possible, so the costs are usually higher. Things get crazy when you get to our numbers. That stupid supply and demand law.

[Klrdds]

Taz and Bombjack...
250 is a heck of a collection considering that you can never complete this or for that matter ever really get close to completing it.
I gave up at 296 and was confident in 275 of them.
One thing that will help is that the 19th and early 20 th century ball players won't be on the ballot until 2030 so there will be ample time to increase your numbers as they elect members that aren't hard to acquire and you also have plenty of time for speculative buying as I did for many years with guys like Deacon White , Alex Pompez, Effa Manley, Hilton Smith , Turkey Stearnes, to name a few that I purchased years before their election.

[tazdmb]

Thanks Kevin, but they are actually on the ballot in 2020, so I better hurry!

[David Atkatz]

Originally Posted by tazdmb

Thanks Kevin, but they are actually on the ballot in 2020, so I better hurry!

2020. May it come very, very, soon.

[tazdmb]

Originally Posted by David Atkatz

2020. May it come very, very, soon.

Who are you sitting on? Me-Glasscock, Dahlen, Breadon and some Negro League Players.

[btcarfagno]

Originally Posted by tazdmb

Who are you sitting on? Me-Glasscock, Dahlen, Breadon and some Negro League Players.

Glasscock and Dahlen.

Tom C

[David Atkatz]

Originally Posted by tazdmb

Who are you sitting on? Me-Glasscock, Dahlen, Breadon and some Negro League Players.

No one. There are more pressing reasons to wish it were 2020.

[Michael B]

Out of many new recent pickups, these are two of my favorites.

Sybil Bauer (1903-1927) - Gold medalist in the 100m backstroke at the 1924 Olympics in Paris. She was so good she broke the men's 440yd backstroke record by 4 seconds in 1922. She died of cancer in 1927 while a senior at Northwestern University. She left behind her fiance, a Chicago sportswriter named Ed Sullivan. Yes, that Ed Sullivan.

Tommy Hitchcock (1900-1944) - Considered the greatest American Polo player of all time. Won a silver medal in polo at the 1924 Olympics. He enlisted with the French forces in WWI later transferring to the U.S. Army Air Corps. He flew in the Lafayette Escadrille. He was shot down and captured. He escaped when he jumped from moving train as it crossed a river. Walked 100 miles to the Swiss border. Attended Harvard and Oxford after the war. Re-enlisted in the Army Air Corps during WWII. He died in a plane crash in England.