RANK: Top 5 "Toughest" T206 Southern Leaguers

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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

I did something as I collected the white border tobacco cards, I commenced it about halfway through the set. I made a note on the checklist of which number T206 it was when I got it. So I knew when I got card #400, it has '400' beside it. Eventually I was putting down the date of acquisition, too. I wish I'd started that sooner...

Anyway. As I gathered in the T206s, I decided to try to get the southern league cards because I perceived them undervalued. I thought demand would drive their cost higher than other T206s. I think I was correct.

So I know the order of acquisition on some of the T206s. The last SLer I got was Lipe. Cranston was the next to last. McCauley was just before him. And preceeding him was Foster.

So that would weakly support the Cranston and Foster idea above. The Beckett catalog used to give a slight premium to Shaughnessy and Perdue, I think. I don't know if it still does, or not. I bought a couple of Shaughnessy cards, thinking that if they were tough I needed 2... one for trade bait. This was pre-eBay, back when folks swapped cards. But I'd find more Shaughnessy cards. He was president of the International League for 2 dozen years. He managed over 2000 games in the minors. He was in baseball forever. I think that put some demand on his card. As for Perdue, I kinda like him. He was from a town about 30 miles from me. Quite a character. Best game he ever pitched was for the 1912 Braves, opening day... it was against the New York Giants, Matty threw for them. Hub pitched a 3 hit shutout, and beat Mathewson. But not much was whooped up in the newspapers about it. Instead, the papers covered news about a shipping accident in the Atlantic, a new ship had hit an iceberg... the Titanic. No idea, though, why there'd be a premium on his card...





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