Question for the E90-1 Experts

[FrankWakefield]

.Upp's card is much less plentiful than a common E90-1. Same for Shean. And McLean to a lesser extent.

I'm with Ed, probably more so. I don't know hardly anything about PSA or SGC registry stuff. And I put very little faith in what they may have. Consider that if a fellow had 50 or so E90-1s, and he was inclined to get a few of the less common ones graded, then if he had one of the Upp cards that one would be an excellent candidate to get graded. The process itself skews statistics...

The E90-1 card of Jerry Upp is his only major league card, I believe. One season, 7 games, started 4, won 2, all in 1909 for Cleveland.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/pl.../uppje01.shtml

and in the minors

http://www.baseball-reference.com/mi...d=upp---001geo

This being his only card puts a bit of demand on an already difficult card.

Mine....

[3-2-count]

Not sure where the weighting factors originated from but they're very false. All three cards are as Ed states very tough.
Between the 3 cards of Upp, Shean, and Mclean I've seen less Mclean's pop up going back the last few years.

[cfc1909]

been watching this set for some time-thinking about making a run at it-have only seen low grade Upp examples -like to see a vg or vg-ex example.

after 206, i would like to go after something not so large but colorful-the Bell and a few others are really attractive from this set.

Craig-we seem to have very simular taste.

[tedzan]

Here is the Jerry Upp card in my E90 set. It is a difficult card, as are the other 20-29 cards issued in the Short-Printed last series
of the E90 set that were issued in 1910.

This card is crease-free and is probably one of the nicest Upp cards in the hobby. Why it got an "AUTHENTIC" grade is mystifying.
I acquired many, many cards from Frank Nagy (since 1980) and I never saw any of his cards having even a hint of being altered.

Note....I show my Tinker, and my CROFTS McGraw, for comparison. The Tinker card is also from Frank Nagy.





TED Z

[Matt]

Ted - hard to say from the scan, but the bottom edge might have been trimmed.

[tbob]

Upp was tough, McLean was very tough but Shean was next to impossible. Those were my experiences in putting the set together.
My tough 5 as far as toughness were:

1. Shean
2. McLean
3. Walsh
4. Upp
5. Speaker

[chaddurbin]

don't follow the set that closely...but i see an Upp 3-4 times year. a nice bvg 1.5 just sold for cheap i thoughtt. i never see a shean tho. don't see walsh or speaker in the wild alot, but is suspect it's because they're hof's (with the mystique of being tough cards) and when they do exchange hands it's from one collector to another where it stays for another 3-5 years instead of going to dealers/flippers.