It's 1909-1912: Which T/E-card subject are you desperately trying to pull/trade for?

[npa589]

I'll start. It is 1909 and I just pulled a T206 Cobb from some drunks Piedmont pack and I really am thinking Ed Reulbach is going to be the greatest pitcher in baseball history because he is 25 and has already won 97 games. Some stupid kid thinks Cobb is going to continue dominating - so I manage to get a few Reulbachs off of him!

[oldeboo]

Forget Honus Wagner, I would have been feverishly looking for a Babe Adams on many cool and breezy fall days in 1909.

“he established himself as the marvel of the baseball age”
“Adams alone has won for Pittsburgh the baseball championship of the universe”
“never in all the history of the greatest outdoor sport has there been anything to equal the marvelous accomplishment of the “kid” pitcher”
“a pitching prodigy compared to whom all the Matthewsons and the Browns fade into insignificance”

[jp1216]

E90-2

[oldeboo]

Originally Posted by jp1216

E90-2

That’s a lovely example. Yes, of course I would have never found an Adams T206. Adams was 3-0 in the 1909 WS and that same accomplishment was achieved by Jack Coombs in the 1910 WS, neither made it into T206. Both players would have been in high demand during that time. As crazy as it might seem today, I would suspect that at the time of issue the Adams card would have been the most popular card in the E90-2 set.

A fun clipping below says Wagner was supposedly "peeved" that Babe Adams was essentially stealing the thunder for the 1909 championship.

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by oldeboo

Forget Honus Wagner, I would have been feverishly looking for a Babe Adams on many cool and breezy fall days in 1909.

“he established himself as the marvel of the baseball age”
“Adams alone has won for Pittsburgh the baseball championship of the universe”
“never in all the history of the greatest outdoor sport has there been anything to equal the marvelous accomplishment of the “kid” pitcher”
“a pitching prodigy compared to whom all the Matthewsons and the Browns fade into insignificance”

cool things about these threads is you learn about players or their achievements that we might never have learned otherwise.

Never knew he was the first rookie to pitch and win a game 7 in a WS or how great of a control pitcher he was