T-210 Market

[Bill Stone]

Frank --the T210 of Yaeger is exactly the one I was thinking of.

On December 25,1910 there was a so-called " Christmas Riot" in downtown Frankfort. According to local accounts and an article in the Washington Post December 28, 1910 Grover Land ( a Frankfort boy who played in the major league for Cleveland) and Pat Bohannon ( who is in the T210 set) were arrested in connection with what was thought to be a fatal shooting of Stephen Theophanis, a Greek who owned a restaurant in downtown Frankfort. The story goes that they had a prolonged and noisy Christmas celebration that lasted until 5 AM . At that time someone threw firecrackers into the place , there was a fracas and eventually the owner was shot. He lived but the men were indicted on misdemeanor charges and released on $200 bonds.

[Potomac Yank]

Scott brought out most of the T210 aficionados.

Now that we're here, who picked up what T210 in that auction?

I'll start it off with the new slot fillers to join the other 356:

Kuhlman - Lindsay - Seitz - Bronkie.

[Bill Stone]

I added Atwell and Reed of Winchester.

[Potomac Yank]

You picked up two very nice cards, are you now working on the Winchester team set?

[Bill Stone]

Just picking up Series 6 cards at random now. As I start to get close on closing out a team I am sure I will get more selective.

[Kawika]

Had jury duty today. Perp burglarized the local Sears. Tattooed knuckles, penitentiary face, ainokea clothes. One ugly bugger. I was dismissed, thank goodness. Am joining the T210 lovefest late. The eloquence of some of the above comments would be difficult to equal. I ain't gonna try. I have dabbled in the T210s with no particular focus for a few years now. The set has something for everyone. For me: a killer Stengel, Blue Grass League rookie, players like Big Jeff Tesreau who made a name in the majors, guys like Sisson and McGeehan that cross to the Contentneas, Sally Leaguers, Texas Leaguers and a "large assortment" of obscure "baseball subjects" of a 100 years ago, irresistably posed on cardboard like Goostree or Deardorff (Thanks, Jeremy), each one's story a mystery to be sleuthed. For me the T210s evoke the mythology of baseball when it really was the National Pastime, a ballyard with a wooden grandstand in every two-bit town filled with youngsters who were our grandparents and Civil War veterans and Americans who were transitioning in to the newfangled century, nary a tattooed scowl to be seen, a game played at a high level, sometimes good enough to go to the Bigs, by young men who weren't businessmen or role models or egomaniacs, just ballplayers who were happy to wear a baseball uniform and play the game and maybe get their picture on a piece of cardboard.









Oh, yeah . . I won the Goostree "Hands Behind Back" and McTigue the other night. He posted a bunch more for sale tonight. Good fun!

PS. Frank: I hope you write that book someday. Put me down for a copy.

[hanksta]

Matt,
I was outbid on the Lindsay...not a family member, just my wife's name...and a reason to spend more $$.

Sean