VCBC articles on Obaks??

[conor912]

Haha. Love the custom card, David. Hoping to see you at the WSCCA show in June.

[Kawika]

Originally Posted by conor912

Hoping to see you at the WSCCA show in June.

Conor: It's a great little card show, like going to a ball game with the wood stands and chicken wire backstop. None of that super-amped National extravaganza crap. Unfortunately have a conflict and need to take a miss this summer.
Robert the OP: If you live on or ever get near the west coast there are several PCL-centric card shows in the Bay Area and the WSCCA shows in Seattle. Lots of great cards and any number of walking Obak/Zeenuts encyclopedias. You'd dig it.

[trdcrdkid]

I've scanned most of the Obak articles listed on the Old Cardboard site, as shown by Kawika in post 5 of this thread. The exceptions are the two OC eNews articles, which are about the T4 Obak premiums (very tough to find) and are online already; the 2005 Old Cardboard item, which is just a bio of Mark Obermeyer that mentions that he has a complete set of T212s; and the last article by Obermeyer in the March 2001 VCBC, because it turns out I don't have that issue of VCBC. I'll included the first three articles in this comment, and the last three in the next comment below. So, in chronological order:

Here is Lloyd Toerpe's article from the May 1973 Sports Scoop:



Lew Lipset's item from the April 1987 The Old Judge, about a T212 album that had been discovered:



And Mark Macrae's article from the September 1995 Vintage & Classic Baseball Collector (#4):

[trdcrdkid]

Here is Jeff Obermeyer's article from the September/October VCBC (#12) about the players in T212:








Obermeyer's article from the February 2000 VCBC (#22) about the back slogans on the 1910 Obaks:




And Obermeyer's update on the 1910 backs from the January 2001 VCBC (#24):

[VoodooChild]

Wow...awesome info David!!! Thanks so much for sharing.