Feb

28

2010

Win Clark: 1897 Louisville Colonels Player

I picked up a neat piece today. Not the biggest name player. In fact, he only played in four Major League games. The cool thing is that he played for the 1897 Louisville Colonels, which were part of the National League at the time. This team had three future Hall of Famers: Rube Waddell, Fred Clarke, and Honus Wagner.

Win Clark went on to manage in the minor leagues for 22 seasons between 1900-1939. He later went on to become the Secretary of the Association of Professional Ball Players of America.

The APBPA currently gives out the “Win Clark Award”, which goes to the first year player who had the most outstanding season. Previous winners include: Lee Walls, Willie Davis, Johnny Callison, Jim Lefebvre, Ron Fairly, Tim Wallach, Mark Grace, Jeff Cirillo, Steve Kemp, Tony Gwynn and Jay Gibbons.

1947 APBPA Membership Card

1947 APBPA Membership Card
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Feb

20

2010

Weekly TTM and other additions (2/15 – 2/21)

Not a bad week. I received several autographs TTM including a couple for my 1962 Topps set.
Jake Gibbs (1962 Topps)
Ed Hobaugh (2nd auto on 1962 Topps Senators team card)
Ed Roebuck (1962 Topps)
Jim Landis (1962 Topps)
Mike de la Hoz (1962 Topps)
Chuck Essegian (1962 Topps)
Jim Thome (2003 Upper Deck Vintage)
Ty Cline (1965 Topps)
Ty Cline (1966 Topps)
Ty Cline (1966 Topps Cubs team)
……
and my favorite return this week was from Marlan Coughtry. I have been looking for Mr. Coughtry for quite some time. Every once in a while I check to see if he is doing any signings. Each time I come up with nothing. I was finally able to locate Marlan and I wrote him a letter asking if it was ok if I sent him a card to sign. He wrote back in under a week giving me the okay. I was thrilled when I got this card back today along with a nice letter. I was able to finish off this Rookie Parade card for my set and met another nice former player TTM. Thanks again!

1962 Topps Rookie Parade Infielders

1962 Topps Rookie Parade Infielders

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I also made a couple of small purchases:
1951 Dell Sports Album signed by Bob Lemon, Stan Musial, and George Kell.

1951 Dell Sports Album (Lemon, Musial, Kell

1951 Dell Sports Album (Lemon, Musial, Kell

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1959 Topps Pitching Partners (Pascual / Ramos

1959 Topps Pitching Partners (Pascual / Ramos

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1959 Topps Pitching Partners (Camilo Pascual / Pedro Ramos)

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Jan

29

2010

Mantle/Mays multisigned, NL HR Leaders and more

I just received the latest additions to my 1962 Topps set. Some amazing cards here including a “Braves’ Backstops” card signed by Joe Torre/Del Crandall, “1962 NL Homerun leaders” signed by Willie Mays/Frank Robinson/Orlando Cepeda, and my favorite….Mickey Mantle/Willie Mays dual signed “Managers’ Dream”. Plus several more including a few of HOFers (Yogi Berra, Eddie Mathews, Ernie Banks).

Mickey Mantle/Willie Mays

Mickey Mantle/Willie Mays

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1961 NL HR Leaders

1961 NL HR Leaders

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Braves' Backstops

Braves' Backstops

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Yogi Berra

Yogi Berra

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Eddie Mathews

Eddie Mathews

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Ernie Banks

Ernie Banks

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On top of these, I also received: Tom Tresh, Harvey Haddix, Bill Kunkel, Chico Fernandez, and Mack Jones.



Jan

26

2010

1969 Phillies Scorecard

I picked up a pretty neat 40+ year old, 22 page Phillies scorecard today. It’s in great condition. I love finding stuff like this. It’s full of some great old ads (I wish a new car was still $1895), player info, and stats. This scorecard was actually scored. Some people don’t like that, but I do.

This particular scorecard was from a Phillies – Giants game. That day the Giants hit back-to-back-to-back homeruns.

The Giants lineup included: Bobby Bonds, Willie McCovey, Dave Marchall, Hal Lanier, Ron Hunt, Ken Henderson, Tito Fuentes, Bob Barton. Mike McCormick was the starting pitcher.

The Phillie lineup included: Tony Taylor, Johnny Callison, Dick Allen, Deron Johnson, Larry Hisle, Cookie Rojas, Don Money, Mike Ryan. The SP was John Boozer.

I plan on sending this out to a few of the old players. First up: Woodie Fryman. Woodie pitched in the majors from 1966-1983. In 18 seasons, he put up a record of 141-155.

1969 Phillies Scorecard Front

1969 Phillies Scorecard Front

1969 Phillies Scorecard Back

1969 Phillies Scorecard Back

1969 Phillies lineup and scoring

1969 Phillies lineup and scoring

1969 Giants lineup and scoring

1969 Giants lineup and scoring

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Jan

15

2010

1962 Topps Rookie Parade

Added a couple of really nice Rookie Parade cards today. These cards are hard to find unsigned and I managed to find a couple fully completed…and another couple that were partially completed. I hope to finish those off over the next few months.

Rookie Parade Infielders with Joe Pepitone

Rookie Parade Infielders with Joe Pepitone

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Rookie Parade Pitchers with Jim Bouton

Rookie Parade Pitchers with Jim Bouton

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Rookie Parade Infielders

Rookie Parade Infielders 1962 Topps

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Rookie Parade Catchers

Rookie Parade Catchers 1962 Topps

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