All the Cubs

[Shankweather]

Originally Posted by Den*nis O*Brien

--- Your outstanding Leaf Phil Cavaretta !! That is a beauty. I have not seen one that nice before. The '33 Goudey Guy Bush is my personal favorite Baseball card. I'm concerned that the appears to be no love for Wausau Wi. hometown hero Johnny Schmitz and his Cubs years. An outstanding gentleman and life long Cub as he would tell anyone who knocked on his door !! Overall what a great focused collection.

Thanks, I am pretty proud of my Cavarretta, one of my favorite players. And the Goudey Guy Bush is such a cool card. That bright red background, and the beautiful detail on his weirdo face. Goudey at its best, though the Riggs Stephenson is my favorite Goudey Cubs card. Johnny Schmitz is in there at #78. I've got his Bowman rookie and hope to get the Leaf one day.

Originally Posted by Luke

This is awesome, thanks for posting! If it were my collection, I'd probably drop a T206 of someone and add a T204 just to get one of those in there. I'd also probably swap the T201 Hoffman for a E95.

Yes, I'm on the lookout for a Ramly, particularly a Wildfire Schulte. And I went with the T201 for Hofman as a sneaky way to have two Three-Finger Brown cards.

[Shankweather]

Yu Darvish is still holding steady as the 1,420th greatest Cub ever.

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New cards! The lovely postcard (addressed on the back to Miss Edna Jacobson, thanks for hanging on to it ma'am) features players 12, 81, 88, 48, 26, 37, 993, 38, 65, 160, 11, 50, 205, 33, 64, 1172, 19, 68, and 16 from the top 100-ish Cubs. The fella in the bowler is C.G. Williams, team secretary and treasurer.

The E95 is Solly Hofman, #88 (again).

[Sean]

Hey Stephen, regarding that postcard: what's wrong with Frank Chance's face?

[Shankweather]

Originally Posted by Sean

Hey Stephen, regarding that postcard: what's wrong with Frank Chance's face?

That was during Frank's goth faze.

Actually it's just a post office stamp, you can see the top of it above his head.

[Sean]

Okay, now I see it.

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Some Cubbie loot from the HA auction last night! Players 31, 80, 58, and 22. I never thought I'd get a Cracker Jack Alexander graded as high as 5. Of course I could afford it only because it's misgraded and is actually more like a 4, and everyone knew it. But hey that label says 5! And that Pfeffer shows him in a Louisville jersey, my hometown, so that's fun.

I really wanted that Mayo's Cut Plug Dahlen graded SGC 6, but I couldn't swing that one and the Grover. $3840 is quite a ransom for that Dahlen, but it sure is pretty. Now to sell some cards so I can pay off my credit card!