Only working class kids smoked....I don't think so ?
Not so, guys..you may consider this anecdotal; but, one of the more famous T-card collectors in the hobby,
Richard Russell (a well-known Senator from Georgia), smoked at age 13 (in 1910) when he started collecting
T206's and T210's.
For those of you who do not know of him, his 500-card T206 collection is on display at the Univ. of Georgia.
His set is the only one known to include the Joe Doyle error card and the Ty Cobb back card. Also, on display
are several 100's of T210's (I don't know if his T210's include Joe Jax or Stengel).
Russell's biography tells us that he grew up in an upper class environment (his father was a Judge and they
owned a farm). It continues when Russell was enrolled in a private Military school at age 14, cigarette smo-
king was the norm there among his fellow students.
TED Z
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05-04-2009, 02:15 PM
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