'Pitchers like poets are born, not made' -- Portrait of Cy Young

[Rhotchkiss]

Yes, they are mine. The problem with collecting Cy Young is that the bulk of his career was during a time when few baseball items, and no cards, were produced and what does exist is so rare and fragile.

[dbussell12]

Originally Posted by Rhotchkiss

Yes, they are mine. The problem with collecting Cy Young is that the bulk of his career was during a time when few baseball items, and no cards, were produced and what does exist is so rare and fragile.

that's pretty crazy to have these! you must be really very happy. this is a big part of why to me historically he exists similar to satchel paige as a myth and a memory -- it becomes a question of documentation as illumination. we have to work with stories, news clippings; piecing together history with players like cy becomes a question of illuminating the darkness of what was with what little we know or don't know about the truth of his times to cast his figure into clarity

[ValKehl]

I wonder why Cy wasn't included in the 1895 N300 Mayo set.