It's no Sin to Pour it In- Jack Sutthoff

[martyogelvie]

Originally Posted by Shoeless Moe

If it really is his grandson, why wouldn't u sell it to him?

why wouldn't you just give it to him.. think of the KARMA you would receive in return!

[Leon]

Originally Posted by martyogelvie

why wouldn't you just give it to him.. think of the KARMA you would receive in return!

I didn't sell it to him because it's not for sale. He is a printer and I have ok'd him to download the image and make a beautiful color copy. I even offered to go to Kinko's and have one made for him. Besides that there are a lot of things the gentleman has from the grandfather. If this card was the only thing left about his grandfather, or was something extraordinarily special, then I would consider offering it. Him not being a collector means the color copy will probably be just fine with him. I did tell him that if I ever do get rid of it then he has dibs.....right behind Jeff ....

As for "karma" I do believe in it....and try to live it....

[iggyman]

Good Golly! That Sutthoff card must be haunted! It obviously fueled the prohibition era and now look at what chaos it has caused on this thread. I want no part of its karma...........Leon, please immediately remove me from the number three slot on your Sutthoff beneficiary will!

Lovely Day...

[calvindog]

This is a funny thread.

[Doug]

I could only imagine what it would like to be a kid in school nowadays with the name Jack Sutthoff (assuming it's pronounced the way it looks)...

[Anthony S.]

Leon,

Do you have any idea what year that (very cool) card was produced?

[oldjudge]

Doug-That's hilarious

[timzcardz]

Originally Posted by Anthony S.

Leon,

Do you have any idea what year that (very cool) card was produced?

I'm obviously not Leon, but it would have been between 1909 and 1919.

From The Baseball Biography Project . . .

"I made the biggest mistake when I quit professional baseball in 1909 to enter business for myself." In any case, Sutthoff returned to Cincinnati and operated a saloon bearing his name at the intersection of St. Lawrence, Enright and Warsaw avenues -- on Price Hill, one of the Queen City's first outlying settlements.[14] Jack and Nellie Sutthoff's large family -- as well as Nellie's brother Jim Crowe, a railroad worker -- lived above the establishment. "Dad was an easy touch for credit," his son recalled. So many patrons were in his debt that he accepted goods when he couldn't get cash, including cameras, dumbbells and encyclopedias. In January 1920, as Sutthoff prepared to close his saloon in compliance with the arrival of Prohibition, he gave away what remained of his inventory of whiskey.