Lets see your: Stan Coveleskis

[BuzzD]

He was briefly a Yankee in 1928. Here is a Thorne Photo

[bcbgcbrcb]

Don’t know where you found that one, Paul. Back in the early 2000’s when I was doing the HOF RC collection, the Zeenut Coveleski was the only pre-rookie of all the Zeenuts sets that I was never able to own. A near impossible card to find from probably the scarcest Zeenut set there is.

[carlsonjok]

Not pre-war, but the only one I have:

[brianp-beme]

The E220 National Caramel has the same photo also. Coveleski was one of the players during the 1920's that had his name spelled incorrectly on a frequent basis, about the same frequency as occurred with either Ross Youngs (Young) or Rogers (Roger) Hornsby, but with more misspelling variety. Because of this I assume the Roaring 20's was also known as the 'Spelling Deficient Decade'.

The E220 set is an interesting early 1920's set that contains a large percentage of unique photos (but obviously not Coveleski) not seen in other sets. Another set from that same stretch of time, W503, is also a great one because it includes all (I believe) unique photos of the 64 players included, which Stan is one of them. Perhaps someone (if this were a MLB trade this Net54 player would be named later) will provide Coveleski's W503 card image.

Brian

[brianp-beme]

Ends up the Net54 player to be named later be brianp-beme.

Brian

[Seiklis]

Might as well add his only Yankee card (least I think it is)

[GeoPoto]

Coveleski had almost 1,200 MLB plate appearances, but hit only .159.
Here he is swinging the bat in 1925:

[h2oya311]

Agree 100% with Phil. Paul, your 1915 Zeenut is off-the-charts impossible. I saw one in a huge lot of Zeenuts a few years ago, but there was no way I could pull the trigger with the final hammer price. Maybe I should have!

At this point, it’s a white whale for me.

For now, I’ll have to settle for this W522 (with more border than most):