Your 1 Favorite Collectible

[nat]

Tomorrow it will probably be something different, but for today it's this postcard. It pictures the University of Wisconsin team on their 1909 tour of Japan. The card was sent by one of the players to his friend back home in
Wisconsin. "Peck" Nash was the team's backup pitcher. He didn't appear in the game pictured on this card, but the team's main pitcher got injured during the following game and Nash pitched the rest of the tour.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Like I'm sure many of you have, I've visited Matty and Christy, Jr.'s graves in PA. Seeing that photo brought back that memory.

I was still in high school, on a trip through PA with my mother. Thinking back on it today, I wonder how on earth I knew where Matty was buried at that young age. The visit wasn't planned whatsoever. We were driving past and I said, "That's where Christy Mathewson is buried!". It's right by Bucknell, so maybe that's how I knew? Not sure. It was the pre-internet era. I obviously could have read about it somewhere.

[pherbener]

Originally Posted by BillyCoxDodgers3B

Like I'm sure many of you have, I've visited Matty and Christy, Jr.'s graves in PA. Seeing that photo brought back that memory.

I was still in high school, on a trip through PA with my mother. Thinking back on it today, I wonder how on earth I knew where Matty was buried at that young age. The visit wasn't planned whatsoever. We were driving past and I said, "That's where Christy Mathewson is buried!". It's right by Bucknell, so maybe that's how I knew? Not sure. It was the pre-internet era. I obviously could have read about it somewhere.

I've been there. Neat to see. I'm from outside Factoryville, Matty's hometown, so they have Christy Mathewson day every year on the weekend closest to his birthday. Eddie Frierson does an outstanding play "Matty" and comes to town occasionally on that weekend to perform it. Great stuff!

[DeanH3]

Keeping up the Matty theme. Maybe because it's a newer pick up. But it's an instant favorite.

[mrreality68]

Always love this card for the action of this batting pose and the rarity and wanted this for over a decade and honored to be the current holder of it

[Balticfox]

My 1962 Shirriff Baseball Coin set:















They're special to me because I collected them as a kid after seeing this ad in the DC comics hitting newsstands in April 1962:





(Bag not mine.)

I didn't get very far with my collection as a kid because a bag of chips cost a whopping ten cents (a silver dime containing 0.0586 of a troy ounce of silver worth U.S.$2.97 today)! That plus the fact that there was at the same time a competing promotion in Hostess Potato Chips with a wildly colourful Aircraft Wheel free inside each bag. But I've now had the 200 coin set of the Shirriff Baseball Coins since 1990 or so.

If posting a whole set is cheating, then it's this unbroken sheet of 1962 Post Baseball cards with both Ernie Banks and Orlando Cepeda that came inside Canadian Sugar Crisp boxes!



Here's the cool ad for the above Post cards that ran in the Saturday comic sections of newspapers across Canada in April 1962:

[Spike]

Originally Posted by nat

Tomorrow it will probably be something different, but for today it's this postcard. It pictures the University of Wisconsin team on their 1909 tour of Japan. The card was sent by one of the players to his friend back home in
Wisconsin. "Peck" Nash was the team's backup pitcher. He didn't appear in the game pictured on this card, but the team's main pitcher got injured during the following game and Nash pitched the rest of the tour.

What an amazing piece of history! Early US college baseball tours of Japan (UWash, UWis) made huge impact on their local game and current Japanese pro teams trace back to a prewar college league. Hope you never lose that card!

My own choice might be this Mantle RC that SGC said NO to. :-)

[G1911]

Easy choice - a pre-production proof sheet cut into panels by subject, from T220 Silver. My favorite set, and can't get much cooler than something unique from ones favorite issue. There are only 3-4 known production copies of the Donovan and Jas. J. Corbett outside of the 8 proof cards of each here. Possibly the only T cards where there are more proofs than production cards!

[Exhibitman]

That T220 sheet never gets old. Bravo.