I'm sick of all this damn money talk; let's have a virtual card show

[SD]

Dode, falling from the sky.

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[ValKehl]

Ed, cool pin of the Los Angeles team. Any idea what year it's from?

[edjs]

Originally Posted by ValKehl

Ed, cool pin of the Los Angeles team. Any idea what year it's from?

It’s 1909. Nice Ornate Johnson. Sophomoric humor intended.

[Exhibitman]

Pins, coins, it's all good.

[GeoPoto]

Bucky Harris

Stanley R. "Bucky" Harris. Second baseman for the Washington Senators in 1919-1928. 1,297 hits and 167 stolen bases in 12 MLB seasons. 1924 and 1947 World Series champion. In 1975, inducted to the MLB Hall of Fame.

Harris was named player-manager of the Washington Senators in 1924 at age 27. "The Boy Wonder" led Washington to World Series victory as "rookie" manger. Managed Washington Senators in 1924-1928, 1935-1942, and 1950-1954. Managed the Detroit Tigers in 1929-1933 and 1955-1956. Managed the Boston Red Sox in 1934. Managed the Philadelphia Phillies in 1943. Managed the New York Yankees in 1947-1948, including winning the 1947 world Series. Served as the General Manager of the Boston Red Sox in 1959-1960.

In his desperate attempt to escape working in the coal mines, Harris played semi-professional basketball when the games were played in cages (hence "cager" for BB player) and northeastern PA was an epi-center of popularity of the emerging sport. This excerpt from his SABR biography explains how he got his nickname:

Stanley was raised in Pittston, Pennsylvania, near Scranton. Brother Merle, seven years older, was a Minor League player. When Stanley was thirteen years old his father abandoned the family, and young Stanley quit school to help his mother. A neighbor, W.P. Jennings, superintendent of a Pennsylvania Coal Company mine, gave him a job separating coal and slate. He worked nine hours a day for twelve cents an hour. It was hazardous work; accidents were not uncommon, with limbs getting caught and mashed by the crushing and sorting machines. After work he played baseball with other youngsters until dark, usually with a ball made by winding string around a rubber core and covering it with tape.

After six months Stanley became an office boy at the Butler Colliery for less pay but with a better chance for promotion. The following year he was promoted to assistant weigh-master, tasked with keeping a check on the coal leaving the colliery. He was now earning $9.72 a week as a fourteen-year-old, and even though he weighed only about one hundred pounds, he still yearned to become a professional ballplayer like brother Merle. He played basketball during the winter to keep in shape and build up his strength. There he earned his lifelong nickname. “I had a couple of players on my back in a rough game,” he said. “When I shook them off and shot a basket [a friend] said I bucked like a tough little bronco”.

https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1626697251

[Exhibitman]

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by GeoPoto

Bucky Harris

Stanley R. "Bucky" Harris. Second baseman for the Washington Senators in 1919-1928. 1,297 hits and 167 stolen bases in 12 MLB seasons. 1924 and 1947 World Series champion. In 1975, inducted to the MLB Hall of Fame.

Harris was named player-manager of the Washington Senators in 1924 at age 27. "The Boy Wonder" led Washington to World Series victory as "rookie" manger. Managed Washington Senators in 1924-1928, 1935-1942, and 1950-1954. Managed the Detroit Tigers in 1929-1933 and 1955-1956. Managed the Boston Red Sox in 1934. Managed the Philadelphia Phillies in 1943. Managed the New York Yankees in 1947-1948, including winning the 1947 world Series. Served as the General Manager of the Boston Red Sox in 1959-1960.

In his desperate attempt to escape working in the coal mines, Harris played semi-professional basketball when the games were played in cages (hence "cager" for BB player) and northeastern PA was an epi-center of popularity of the emerging sport. This excerpt from his SABR biography explains how he got his nickname:

Stanley was raised in Pittston, Pennsylvania, near Scranton. Brother Merle, seven years older, was a Minor League player. When Stanley was thirteen years old his father abandoned the family, and young Stanley quit school to help his mother. A neighbor, W.P. Jennings, superintendent of a Pennsylvania Coal Company mine, gave him a job separating coal and slate. He worked nine hours a day for twelve cents an hour. It was hazardous work; accidents were not uncommon, with limbs getting caught and mashed by the crushing and sorting machines. After work he played baseball with other youngsters until dark, usually with a ball made by winding string around a rubber core and covering it with tape.

After six months Stanley became an office boy at the Butler Colliery for less pay but with a better chance for promotion. The following year he was promoted to assistant weigh-master, tasked with keeping a check on the coal leaving the colliery. He was now earning $9.72 a week as a fourteen-year-old, and even though he weighed only about one hundred pounds, he still yearned to become a professional ballplayer like brother Merle. He played basketball during the winter to keep in shape and build up his strength. There he earned his lifelong nickname. “I had a couple of players on my back in a rough game,” he said. “When I shook them off and shot a basket [a friend] said I bucked like a tough little bronco”.

https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1626697251

Cool History on the player/manager and card.
Like the Card but Love the History
THanks for sharing

[Exhibitman]

The Brown Bombers, a segregated US military team in WWII. Possibly with the 66th aviation squadron in Everett, WA. Still researching that.

[qed2190]

Thought I would throw in another boxing card

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by qed2190

Thought I would throw in another boxing card

Yeah, baby, yeah!

[qed2190]

The back of the card

[brianp-beme]

Here is my boxing card of Max Schmeling.

Brian

[Clutch-Hitter]

Originally Posted by brianp-beme

Here is my boxing card of Max Schmeling.

Brian

Nice Schmeling

[qed2190]

Do hydroplanes count?

[brianp-beme]

Here are a couple of E90-1 cards of Phelps, one with mystery red/blue coloration.

Brian

[Exhibitman]

Got this 30 years ago at the 1991 National. Happy National Week all you lucky bastards in CHI.

[GeoPoto]

I'll always marvel at the decision to show the greatest pitcher of the time (1921), if not all-time, batting!?

https://www.net54baseball.com/attach...1&d=1627394878

[brianp-beme]

I say why not show these two cards? Two different W573 issues, which I have designated Type 1 and Type 3.

The W573 Type 1, which is the most common, is the hand cut on thin stock issue in B/W, likely issued in 1922.

The Type 2 (not shown), which is not as common, is the hand cut on thin stock, likely issued in 1922, that is tinted green (for National League players) or sepia (American Leaguers), just as is seen in the E120 American Caramel set.

The Type 3 is a larger card with bigger borders and is machine cut on thicker cardboard, and is the scarcest issue. The Type 3 Devormer card shown on the right is significant in that the team designation has been changed, indicating that it had to have been produced after January 3rd, 1923, as that was the date that Lou was traded from the Yankees to Boston.

Brian

(edited to add that I helpfully circled the "Boston Americans" on the Type 3 card to indicate this later change, and added "New York Giants" as a reminder that Lou also played for the Giants in 1927).

[GaryPassamonte]

Here's an old one.