First Class HOF Grand Slam type card

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Posted By: Darren J. Duet

Given Patrick's good idea for a Grand Slam thread, here's another to post our cards. The idea is to represent Cobb/Wagner/Ruth/Johnson/Mathewson each with a type card from your collection.

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Posted By: Hal Lewis

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Posted By: pete in mn

wowsers...c'mon Hal...how about some more unusual cards.

pete in mn

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Posted By: identify7

Do it again - with 5 different Cobb/Wagner/Ruth/Johnson/Mathewsons

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Posted By: Hal Lewis

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Posted By: Anson

Hal, the least you could do is show some cards that are actually in decent shape. What's all that garbage?

Beautiful cards, Hal!

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Posted By: Hal Lewis

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Posted By: identify7

I definately like the big bordered cards like the Plows and Star Players, but when they add some ornateness, like on the Spalding, it seems to detract from the overall appearance. imo.

I only have one of these, a Willards, but Id like some more.

Thanks for not including a Ruth Buzzi, Hal.

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Posted By: zach

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Posted By: warshawlaw

Not that I'm objecting to seeing these great cards

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

Type card? What's that?

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Posted By: Ryan Christoff

Screw Cobb. The rest of these guys all won World Series rings. Each of these is my favorite image of the player of any card they appear on except for Johnson, which I like due to the rarity of the issue and the fact that it's Cuban. The Ruth image does appear on his E220 card, but on the exhibit they airbrushed out the stands in the background, which really makes Ruth stand out, and the quality of the image on the exhibit is infinitely better.

-Ryan

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Posted By: Bottom of the Ninth

Someone here speaks loudly and carries a very small stick.

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Posted By: Hal Lewis

Why don't you suck my small stick, you loser.

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Posted By: Bottom of the Ninth

Why don't you suck my small stick, you loser.

Now that's the spirt!!!

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Posted By: Peter_Spaeth

Does size really matter?

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Posted By: Bottom of the Ninth

I guess it must.

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Posted By: Hal Lewis

"Welcome to Bottom of the Ninth! We are dealers of vintage sports and non-sports trading cards, specializing in collector grade pre-war cards. All of our inventory is graded by reputable grading services such as PSA (Professional Sports Authenticators), SGC (Sportscard Guaranty) and GAI (Global Authentication Inc.). Have a look around and let us know if you see anything that interests you."


Never in my life have I seen someone operate a business selling worthless things to people for huge sums of money... and then COMPLAINING when the buyers are proud of the things they bought and want to share them with others.

One would think that such a seller would encourage this.

I am at a loss for why any such seller would discourage it with such venom. Completely illogical.

If I was even a threat of being a "rival" seller, one could perhaps see the reason for this attack.

But everyone here knows that this is not the case.

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Posted By: Hal Lewis

I must have MISSED the disclaimer on the "Bottom of the Ninth" webpage in fine print:

*If you buy any of our fine cards, you are required to never tell anyone about them, and you must continue to allow me to post my items for sale while you sit idly by keeping all of your cards a secret.

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Posted By: Josh K.

wow, I got to say that the attack on Hal's collection seems a bit uncalled for. he contributes a hell of a lot to this board and if he wants to show us his cards or show off his cards, its fine be me. first, I enjoy seeing them; and second, lets be honest - ALL of us who are posting in these threads are doing it because we want to show off our cards.

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Posted By: Peter_Spaeth

I disagree with part of the last comment. Many people here do not post their cards.

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Posted By: Bottom of the Ninth

Never in my life have I seen someone operate a business selling worthless things to people for huge sums of money... and then COMPLAINING when the buyers are proud of the things they bought and want to share them with others.

If that really is your interpretation of my posts then you are even more self-absorbed than originally thought.

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Posted By: B.C.Daniels

can I trade you for the E-102 Crawford you did not post on here?

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Posted By: Josh K.

Peter - Im referring to those of us who post pics. Frankly, I dont see why everyone thinks showing off your cards is a bad thing - I consider it more like sharing. I for one like seeing (and drooling over) cards that I see on this board. I also enjoy getting an idea what fellow collectors collect.

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Posted By: B.C.Daniels

Can you identify that Matty card for us? Never seen it before!

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Posted By: Mike M

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Posted By: Bottom of the Ninth

Josh,

I am not attacking Hal's collection. His collection is absolutely awesome. Most who post on this board know that Hal has a website. I am far from the only person on this board who finds that Hal boasts, not posts. I will probably be the only person to say something though. Just today Hal posted the same images in two different threads. Images of cards that he posts routinely and in many instances end up hijacking a thread. Hal and I had private emails about this earlier this year.

There are other board members and lurkers who have as impressive and maybe more impressive collections than Hal and sadly never post images but remain very unassuming.

Sorry if I have pissed off those of you who feel I am out of line.

Greg

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Posted By: David McDonald

Mr. Hal,
That series of loud bangs you heard was jaws dropping on the floor from the East Coast to Honolulu upon viewing the two "Grand Slam" threads. Your cards are things of glorious beauty; it made my day to see them one after another and I thank you for that.
Peace.
David McDonald

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Posted By: Anonymous

David,

Did you receive my daughter's note?

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Posted By: Julie Vognar

"Someone around here speaks very loudly and carroes a very small stick" MEAN, anyway?

Let's face it: Hal has too many great cards. But..what does "someone around here etc." have to do with that?

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Posted By: David McDonald

Hi Andrew
Yes! The D304 Matty and her note arrived yesterday. I will e-mail you later tonight; six pm here, have a Karate class in an hour, gotta jam.
Now back to our regularly scheduled quarreling . . .

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Posted By: Josh K.

Greg,

I understand where everyone is coming from on this and that some may like the posts and some dont. I just wanted to give my .02. I also know that a lot of collectors, posters and lurkers dont share their collections. Personally, I think that is too bad - I for one would love to see them.

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Posted By: Peter_Spaeth

Sometimes, enough is as good as a feast.

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Hal, your posts don't have the same bite without the CAPS and the



And, please, no vulgar references out here. Poor Julie is covering her eyes and ears....

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Posted By: Anson

I would guess that Ryan's Matty is an uncataloged strip card from the mid 19 teens. I don't think Matty slipped into any of the Sporting News, Am Caramels, or baking issues that used that same design. They came just a wee bit later.

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Posted By: Cat

I didn't want to repeat types of cards, I actually have a nice m116 Mathewson, but since my only Wagner card is also a m116, I elected to show the t205 Mathewson (which I personally do not like that image). My portrait Walter Johnson t206 is also my favorite card of him, but since I was using the t206 Cobb, I went with the CJ Johnson (so as not to have 2 t206's represented). Here's my effort:

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Posted By: Josh K.

nice - but this might be one time when smaller is better.

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Posted By: Cat

OK, I am a bit scanner challenged. My settings work great for EBay, but I can't seem to master the settings for the forum. I'll take em down if I can't get the size corrected.

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Posted By: Josh K.

Cat,

Use Image Shack

http://www.imageshack.us/>

It allows you to post and it has a box that you can use to automatically reduce the size of your posts. Shoot me an email if you have any questions how to use it.

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Posted By: Tim James

Hal has the grand slam,hands down!

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Posted By: Darren Duet

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Posted By: Cat

Josh:

Thanks for your help. Imageshack worked great.

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Posted By: Josh K.

glad to help. beautiful wagner btw.

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Posted By: Cat

Josh:

That was the Wagner that was in the last MastroNet auction.

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Posted By: Ryan Christoff

No, the Matty isn't a strip card. It's from the same issuer as the M101-4 & M101-5 sets (Felix Mendelsohn) and was from a set that was supposed to be issued in 1917, but never was. Here's a link to a recent article in SCD about the issue:

-Ryan

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Posted By: Ryan Christoff

Wow, I swear I only posted the link. I didn't mean to post a huge image in the thread. How do I post the link so it's actually a link and not the picture itself?

-Ryan

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Posted By: Cat

It was good reading. Thanks. I would vote for you to leave it up as is.

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Posted By: H Murphy

Great Ruth, always like to see that edition. My vote for card of this thread!!

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Posted By: Cat

Murphy:

Thanks. The Ruth is my most charished card in my collection. It's not as nice as Hal's PSA 7 shown in this thread, but still the pride of my collection.