Question for Mr. Binder

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Posted By: Jerry Spillman

I have been off line for a couple of days due to a computer failure. The computer stays on for a short time then turns itself off. Have it patched up for now but the end is near.

I realize that on this forum it is perfectly acceptable to insult anyone whenever one wishes. Knowing the facts is not important.

Just to clear up any misconceptions:

Quite a few years ago I wrote a Sporting Life Cabinets computer program. The program was on my web site to be freely downloaded by collectors. The program allowed the user the full use of the SLC checklist and to bring up all the SLC issued in any particular year, all the players on any team, etc. In fact the computer program is still available if any collector is interested let me know. (The program was written in DOS which means keyboard actuated).

This series of baseball cabinets presents quite a mystery. They were issued for ten years and there are more than 600 cabinets on the checklist yet they are very scarce. Almost half of these cabinets on the list do not have even one survivor. Lyman Hardeman did a masterful job of laying the artwork for this article in Issue #8, Summer 2006 edition of the Old Cardboard magazine.

These were just couple of my donations to the hobby. However I'm sorry but do not agree that I must donate anything to a profit making business.

I visited the vpc.com. No change as yet.

However when I looked at the Rose Co. postcard checklist on this web site I found the following:




McLean Springfield

The player that is pictured on this postcard or an agent for the Springfield Baseball Team made this 1909 postcard from a blank Rose Co. postcard. It is definitely not from the original Rose Company postcard series that depict Carl Horner photos. What is it doing on this checklist?