May 18th, 2021
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to update my site as I would have liked. This past year (2020) with the pandemic was absolutely nuts; but it seems like we are finally starting to get back to normal.
Have had some great pickups this past year since my last update; highlighted by ANOTHER signed Cobb T206. This will be the third one I have owned out of the four different variations Cobb has in the epic set. Currently, I have both of the bat on/off shoulder variations signed.
The most recent one being from the fabled “George Sands Collection”. Sands was ahead of his time in getting autographs, especially taking advantage of sending them through the mail to superstars. This particular one is from 1955 as he sent in 5 Cobb’s (bat on/off shoulder, T206 green portrait, red portrait and T205 gold border).
The bat on and off shoulder are certainly my favorite versions of his T206 cards; I prefer “playing” images for cards rather than a portrait (though they are quite stunning for this set). Here, you can see Cobb wielding his weapon as he does his iconic stare towards the pitcher.
Outside of the Cobb, my next big pickup was a signed T206 Speaker. Extremely excited to add this one to my collection to finally upgrade from my signed ‘33 Goudey of his. What I love about Speaker is how he took his time to really appreciate his signature; it truly is a beauty. Can’t go wrong either with the image as well. Glad he signed it over his body rather than the blue background to make it blend in.
Whenever you can get an upgrade for a great price, you can’t complain about that. I had a few ‘38 Goudey Heads Up Doerr signed rookies, but they were in pretty beat up condition. I am very excited to upgrade to this one in great condition that presents better when in hand. Unfortunately, this is a later in life signature so a tad shaky and not the cartoon version.
In August, the single greatest signed Goudey collection finally hit the auction block through Wheatland Auctions; the Uncle Jimmy Collection, highlighted by SIX signed Goudey Babe Ruth’s, the finest ever known. Here is what Sports Collectors Digest had to say about this historic collection.
It is an absolute honor to have been able to add three of these cards from this iconic collection; Rabbit Marranville, Goose Goslin, Lefty Gomez and Jim Bottomley. These were all big upgrades for me.
The Goudey upgrade run continued with this beautiful Freddie Lindstrom.
I wouldn’t necessarily say this is an upgrade per say, but it is a very cool card because of the inscription Bunning added for his perfect game.
While he is not a Hall of Famer, he will go down in baseball lore for unfortunate reasons. On June 2nd 1925 would go down in baseball infamy as Wally Pipp had removed himself from the starting lineup due to a headache and double vision from being hit in the head two days prior.
The man who replaced him; Lou Gehrig. This was his second game of his historic 2,130 consecutive games played (the previous night he appeared as a pinch hitter, this was his first start at first base). After that, Pipp never saw the starting lineup again.
Presented here is an extremely scarce 1927 Exhibits signed in his typical beautiful script.
