Who are the 12 (and 22) best players in the T206 set?

[tedzan]

Originally Posted by Rhotchkiss

Top 9, I think, are pretty established - not necessarily in this order:

1. Cobb
2. Wagner
3. Johnson
4. Mathewson
5. Young
6. Lajoie
7. Speaker
8. Plank
9. Collins

After that it gets much more subjective and I dont feel like duking it out. However, I do note that at the time, Tinker, McGraw and Chase must have been major, as Tinker and McGraw had 4 cards (very few players had 4+ different) and Chase is the only player to have 5 cards. I think Cobb is the only other player to have 4 different cards.

I totally agree with Ryan.

Furthermore, if you've read the biographies of the Highlanders players....Chase, from 1st base, would chase a bunt down the 3rd base line and throw out the runner going to 1st base.
He was an outstanding player in the field.....and, he swung a pretty good bat.

It was plays like that, that Babe Ruth is quoted as saying...."Hal Chase is the greatest 1st Baseman in Baseball" (of course Ruth said that prior to Lou Gehrig joining the Yankees).
Babe Ruth has spoken....so who are we to judge Hal Chase.





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[jcmtiger]

Cobb#1, and Crawford in top 12. Joe

[Mark17]

Originally Posted by tedzan

It was plays like that, that Babe Ruth is quoted as saying...."Hal Chase is the greatest 1st Baseman in Baseball" (of course Ruth said that prior to Lou Gehrig joining the Yankees).
Babe Ruth has spoken....so who are we to judge Hal Chase.

But if you had one game to win, could you trust him? I'd take Konetchy, Chance, Merkle, Davis.... actually anybody but Chase.

Chase was the original "money" player....... but the money he was playing for was what would end up in his own pocket at the end of the day.

[Ronnie73]

I wonder if at some point in the future, there will be a new number that is considered a type of completeness. Right now we have numbers like 524, 522, 521, 520, and 518. Without mentioning player names, just about any T206 collector knows what cards are missing in each of those sets. With the way prices are going, will we get to a point where a 500 card set of T206's is considered complete? Will there be 18 cards that everyone can agree on, that would make a new type of number of completeness? Maybe even 510 could be the new number. Where the 4 Cobbs, 3 Young's, and say the Johnson Portrait are eliminated. Just some crazy thought, but twenty years from now, I could see someone saying they are going after the T206 500 card set.