Favorite Players to Collect

2 Part Question:

Who are your favorite players to collect?

AND, if you could pick only one card of each of those players for your collection, which would it be and why?

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A few of mine:

Eddie Plank (E107 - just love the portrait, always been drawn to Plank's cards).

Mordecai Brown (Plow Boy Cabinet - ultra cool looking horizontal pose)

Willie Keeler (E97 Briggs - nice sweater and yellow background)

King Kelly (N162 - beautiful color and dramatic clouds in the background)

Connie Mack (Texas Tommy - once owned a trimmed example - great close up portrait shot, also a neat writeup on the back)

Harry Wright (Kalamazoo Bats w/ad back - terrific pose of the great old manager in the dugout)

fisherboy7 wrote:2 Part Question:

Who are your favorite players to collect?

Kind of cliche with my first choice, but:

1) Cobb (I think that most of his cards are aesthetically pleasing).

2) Detroit players....because I'm a Tigers fan

3) Always been a fan of Sherry Magee cards.

4) Shag Shaughnessy

5) Nap Lajoie

fisherboy7 wrote: AND, if you could pick only one card of each of those players for your collection, which would it be and why?

1) Cobb: I'd take a T216 Cobb (Standing) with a MINO back

2) Detroit players.....see above

3) Magee: I'd want the T206 error Magie card or an E92 Red Croft's Candy Magee (if it exists)

4) Shaughnessy: I'd want an E222 AWH Caramels back Shag

5) Nap Lajoie: I'd want an E107

Forgot about the why:

T216 MINO Cobb standing)....because it is my holy grail for T216's.

T206 Magie error....because it's one of the toughies from the set. Most people work to 520 for the set and skip the Magie. Magie is the most realistically attainable of the big 4.

E222 Shag......because it's a sweet looking card using the same image as the T206, and it's super rare.

E107 Lajoie.....I just love the black and white photo. It's a great image.

cool thread. i'm gonna go with my favs and the most realistic card i could obtain of him...i.e. not gonna go wagner & t206
1. ed delahanty--OJ, rookie young early photo
2. nap lajoie-- w600 street clothes, scarce and with cabinet you get more cardboard for the money
3. ed plank--t206, yea cuz it's a t206 plank
4. joe jackson--cracker jack, classic colorful handsome pose from a classic americana set
5. ted williams--'39 playball, rookie card

honorable mentions: cy young (e107), walter johnson (t204), speaker (e90-1)

just realized i don't even have cobb or wagner ...

ok cobb: w600, tough and cool rookie card
wagner--e104 nadja back, it's a caramel and a wagner portrait and a tough back

1) Smokey Joe Wood.


2) Got it already.....M116 Sporting life Wood. Because i have been trying to acquire one for about 5 years now.



Mark

1. Ed Delahanty (Duke Cabinet because it's just stunning)

2. Tris Speaker (Fellow Texan, Great Player) Horner Cabinet Captures a youthfull Spoke that makes my hair stand on end, Second choice would be Novelty Cutlery Postcard

3. Nap Lajoie (T206 w/ Bat, hard to beat)

4. Christy Mathewson (1914 Cracker Jack or Boston Garter) would be estatic with either

5. Walter Johnson (T204 Rookie, Just because I like it)

I just do sets now but when I wasn't focused in the 80s I had a lot of Sam Crawford cards. I liked him because he was the career leader in triples. My favorite piece wasn't even a card. I had a news service photo of him from the turn of the century.

The only other players I looked for specifically were Jerry Koosman and Tony Oliva.

Jay
The Koosman Rookie card is a little pricey wouldn't you say.

Yeah, but in 1982 it only cost me $5

TheBig6 wrote:Tris Speaker (Fellow Texan, Great Player) Horner Cabinet Captures a youthfull Spoke that makes my hair stand on end, Second choice would be Novelty Cutlery Postcard

Speaker is #1 on my list, for sure. He has so many great cards, doesn't he? I think the most beautiful just might be the T3 (I don't own yet). But the CJ is a true classic. The T207 is really cool. The E90-1 is beautiful...why choose just one?

This has always been my favorite Speaker card

My fav players are...

Rube Waddell
Addie Joss
Eddie Plank
Ed Delahanty
Joe Wood

an early cabinet of each would be great!

I forgot Big Ed. I had a few of his cards but they were always tough to come by.

I don't know as much about cards as some folks on this board, but here are my favorites:

N172's - Delahanty or Anson

Wagner - I like the D304 best of his portraits (other than t206), plus I like the batting of the E90's and E95's.

Cobb - Bat off Shoulder, and if I could afford it, Cobb/Cobb

Eddie Plank

1895 Mayo - I'd love a Nichols or Rusie, especially a Nichols

i also like kid nichols, and i'm warming up to the mayos vs ojs. a mayo delahanty and nichols would be nice. (although an oj nichols in an omaha uni is pretty sweet)

e, i will send u my address...please send me the nichols.

When I lived in Sacramento I was set up at a show and lady brought in a cabinet photo of Nichols in his Omaha uniform. On the back was a love letter written to her great grandmother and obviously signed by Nichols.

This was around 1992 and I offered her $500 for it and she turned it down. I would have loved to have gotten the piece but I totally understood why she didn't want to sell.

Yeah, that Nichols is diesel, I think the n300's are pricey but great cards. Nichols imo was the second best pitcher in the 1890's, perhaps the entire 19th Century, to Cy Young. Did you see what his OJ went for in REA? 15k - It blew away estimates... I think he's a hot player right now.

Clarkson was by far the best pitcher of the 19c. Young spent half his career in each century so it's tough to say he was the best in either.

Thank you, Jay, I stand corrected...

crazylocomerk wrote:E222 Shag......because it's a sweet looking card using the same image as the T206, and it's super rare

Nice unique choice Eric. Here are a few scans of the E222 Shag. Anyone know if each of the E222 subjects come in all color varieties (blue, grey, red, orange, green, etc)?

Here's a LINK to our E222 thread in our virtual sets area where you can see a bunch of different color varieties on display.