What if Ty Cobb had a scarce 1909 Tennis Card?

[HexsHeroes]

Originally Posted by sbfinley

Ty was never fond of tennis. He called tennis players "silly nannies" and much worse. .

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And if memory serves me correctly, tennis was the sport that his son Ty Jr. took up and played competitively at the collegiate level.

[DaveH]

Ty's racing card.

dh

[Exhibitman]

Heavyweight champ Tommy Burns was another lacrosse-playing Canadian. He has two lacrosse cards, both of which are quite expensive in comparison to his boxing cards of the era. I will post one later on. Here is a card of him as a boxer:

[Bosox Blair]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Heavyweight champ Tommy Burns was another lacrosse-playing Canadian. He has two lacrosse cards, both of which are quite expensive in comparison to his boxing cards of the era.

Very true! Here is his C60 lacrosse card (another PSA misidentification as C59, so I cropped that out...):

[Brian Van Horn]

What if Ty Cobb had a scarce 1909 Tennis Card?

I am getting a picture of a Ty Cobb/John McEnroe tennis match. The line judge has just been murdered. Now to play Clue.

[fkw]

Ty Cobb, along with Hugh Jennings and a few other Tiger players have their own Car cards, the 1908 Brush Postcards all picture players (mostly single players) at the wheel of a Brush Automobile.

maybe someone has the Cobb to show, Ive owned a couple over the years but never the Cobb.

[Bridwell]

I've seen postcards of pre-war players hunting, such as Cy Young. There are postcards of guys playing golf, such as Ty Cobb or Babe Ruth. There are ads where players endorse sporting equipment, such as Chief Bender on a skeet-shooting ad or Johnny Evers, or Honus Wagner, endorsing other sports equipment from their own sporting good companies. All of these are considered collectible and have value. A postcard or pre-war collector card of any sport is valuable if it has someone famous on it.

A lot of the great baseball players were great athletes so they tried other sports. Jim Thorpe, for example, was good at almost any sport.

[Bosox Blair]

Originally Posted by Brian Van Horn

What if Ty Cobb had a scarce 1909 Tennis Card?

I am getting a picture of a Ty Cobb/John McEnroe tennis match. The line judge has just been murdered. Now to play Clue.

LOL !

Cheers,
Blair

[Exhibitman]

Not a card but here's a photo of New York City boy Lou Gehrig pretending to be a cowboy

[Bilko G]

Originally Posted by Bosox Blair

Very true! Here is his C60 lacrosse card (another PSA misidentification as C59, so I cropped that out...):

great card!! never seen this one before