Pep Young, #107 in W514... He's in the Hall of Fame

[docpatlv]

z28jd...

Now there's a board member I haven't seen post in a looooonnng while.

Welcome back.

Mike

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

It's been twenty years since I examined these, but weren't both issues loaded with improper spellings of surnames? Come to think of it, they couldn't even spell first names/nicknames correctly much of the time! Lou Blue comes to mind, as does some infraction on Heilmann.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by docpatlv

z28jd...

Now there's a board member I haven't seen post in a looooonnng while.

Welcome back.

Mike

People come and go but it seems like they can never leave for good . John (Zdude) and I have emailed several times over the years. His mom (who I have never met, seen or communicated with) has the hots for me . I think it's my legs....btw, this is a running joke.

edited to say "nice work Frank, very nice"

[ethicsprof]

yes, welcome back.
also great to see ole Hal Lewis' name in print again.

all the best,

barry

[z28jd]

I've been here,just been lurking the whole time usually writing people through emails or private messages. I only really collect Old Judge cards and only buy 10-15 a year,don't go to shows or sell anything so there isn't much new for me to talk about. I've also been busy writing and just put out a new book I won't promote because its a little off subject,baseball,but way too new for the board.

Here's another project I do weekly people here might like(if it's okay with Leon to post the link to my work)

http://www.piratesprospects.com/cate...irates-history


Didn't want to get this too far off subject so feel free to go back to the Pep Young price guide error. I'm actually shocked it's still listed wrong because I know Hal wanted to make sure he had the earliest cards for everyone and at the time he was looking for the Koester Bread when the subject came up

Great bit of detective work frank.

Tony

I've been collecting this strip card set for a couple years now, and never put the Ross Young (Pep) connection together. I picked up a Pep Young VG-3 for $25 last year, but even the low-tier HOF's (if such a thing exists) of this set usually range between $75 - $125. 10X value might be much, but definitely 3-5X. Nice to increase the value of a card in a collection by doing nothing but homework, great find Frank.

Another w514 anomaly seems to be the "weighted set" score given by SGC, on the Bill Southworth (#16). All HOF get at least a 3X "weight" over commons (except for Ad Luque 2X) in this set, on their site. But the Southworth (a HOF) is the same as a common (1X). I've contacted them a couple times about it but nothing has changed. Oh well, details...

Great to see someone is paying attention to probably the best set offered during the deadball - liveball transitional years.

[SteveVerkman]

Just wanted to let everyone interested know that I am currently writing up a partial E220 set for our next auction and there is a Pep Young card in the set with him fielding in what looks like a Detroit uniform, and he is identified as S.S. Detroit American. There is a separate card of Ross Youngs in this set, but unfortunately it was not in this collection.