Blazek Buys Wagner from Mastro- 1974 (old hobby thread)

[Jay Wolt]

Wonder where that Wagner is now

[HRBAKER]

Looks like a rockin' party.

[iggyman]

more Ken Blazek news....

http://news.google.com/newspapers?ni...g=5076,4784420

Lovely Day...

[tbob]

Iggy, thanks for the great story. Hard to believe Mike Wheat was being given a hard time about being "too old" to collect baseball cards 32 years ago! Wonder how old he is now?
As for the Zimpelman collection:

www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/15976

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by tbob

Iggy, thanks for the great story. Hard to believe Mike Wheat was being given a hard time about being "too old" to collect baseball cards 32 years ago! Wonder how old he is now?
As for the Zimpelman collection:

www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/15976

Bob, I was getting that when I was 12.

[Leon]

We have all heard the name "Buck Barker" in our conversations in the hobby. He was certainly one of the all time greats in the hobby. So I thought showing this, with some other notable collectors too, would be appropriate...

[Jay Wolt]

Leon great to see the veteran collectors like Barker, Alongi & Lyons who are no longer with us.

[Tom Hufford]

Wow, that's me!

What a surprise - I don't think I've ever seen this issue of "Sport Fan" before, but that's probably faulty memory, since I did subscribe to it back then.

I'm in the second picture from the top, the one with three guys holding baseballs. I'm on the right, the guy in the middle is Bill Zekus, I don't recognize the fellow on the left.

I'm not sure what these photos have to do with the T206 story, unless Blazek and Mastro are pictured (I knew Bill back then, but don't recognize him in the pictures). I'm sure these photos were taken at the Otesaga Hotel in Cooperstown (at least the bottom three were), during Induction Weekend in 1974. Bill Zekus and I were there, and the fellow wearing a tie in the photo on the right is Whitey Ford, who was inducted that weekend.

[Leon]

The last photo doesn't have anything to do with the first one except they are from the same periodical albeit different issues. As the title of the thread also says...." old hobby thread". I am going to keep posting some old hobby stuff in this thread. It might or might not be from this periodical, which I have some other issues of, but it will be old hobby related stuff.

Tom- how neat is that to see your picture from 36 yrs ago? (I loved the other recent, old hobby thread too)

[atx840]

Originally Posted by tbob

www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/15976

The man pulls the Wagner strip from his pocket and says 'I hear you're looking for this'. I looked at the strip which was folded in half and saw that it was a T206 proof strip."

What a find......but stop folding it!