Moonlight Graham pc on ebay

[3-2-count]

Jeff. I've noticed that. Great minds think alike.....

Tony A.

[Brian Campf]

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[Bicem]

The hatless guy looks like him to me...

scan stolen from Rhett's site...

[cincicards]

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[yanks12025]

What would that piece go for if Moonlight was not made famous by the movie Field of Dreams.

[prewarsports]

I was buying up Scranton pieces before SABR put their Minor League database on the internet for all to see for about $50-$75 each but now that this is public knowledge those days are over. He is 100% in the picture, I have owned several different 1907 Scranton postcards with the same player identified on the front as "Graham". I bid $415 and thought I would win it for less than $200 but was surprised to have been outbid by multiple people at that level. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted!

Rhys

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Nobody would care about Graham if not for the movie. Kinsella could have picked another great baseball name, such as Icehouse Wilson from the 1934 Tigers, and revolved the plot around him, thereby etching a different obscure player's name into the memory banks of modern-day fans. It bothers me how much Graham's memorabilia fetches just because an author plucked him out of the 15,000+ players who have made the big time. Yes, the real Archie Graham was a doctor who lived in Chisholm, MN and had a wife name Alicia. For all we know, she really could have favored blue hats. As someone who thinks every player's biography is equally important to preserve, the hype has always bothered me. After all, people don't collect Babe Ruth material because they're huge William Bendix or John Goodman fans; why collect Moonlight memorabilia because you`re enamored with either Kinsella`s book or Burt Lancaster`s preformance? Oddly, Eddie Waitkus memorabilia never really skyrocketed because his case was the basis for The Natural.

(Yes, we`ve debated this one before. I realize all of the Moonlight devotees have passionate reasons for craving this sort of material, but I`ll never understand why!)

[Matt]

Originally Posted by prewarsports

I was buying up Scranton pieces before SABR put their Minor League database on the internet for all to see for about $50-$75 each but now that this is public knowledge those days are over. He is 100% in the picture, I have owned several different 1907 Scranton postcards with the same player identified on the front as "Graham". I bid $415 and thought I would win it for less than $200 but was surprised to have been outbid by multiple people at that level. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted!

Rhys

Rhys - do you have scans of any of the other Scranton PCs you owned with Graham?