Finally! I finally landed a baseball card of Hall of Famer Bill Veeck! With this card, after a re-count, I'm down to waneeding four "cards" to complete my goal of having at least one card of every National Baseball Hall of Famer. My new self-imposed definition of a "card" excludes postcards. You see, I have postcards of the following individuals, but I waneeded a "regular" card of Veeck, and I waneed a "regular" card of Bill Foster, John Schuerholz, Frank Selee, and Deacon White to meet my goal. By "regular", I'm thinking of something that, in my mind, was more of a retail issue size card and will fit in a 9-pocket sleeve.
BTY, I hereby coin the terms "waneed," "waneeded", and "waneeding" as something that you want, wanted, or are wanting so badly that you convince yourself that you need, needed, or are in need of it, respectively, - LOL!
The cards shown herein were from the Chicagoland Collectors Association Fourth Annual Baseball Nostalgia Expo held on June 4, 5, & 6, 1976, presumably somewhere in Chicago. Below you'll see 9 cards of 10 Hall of Famers, one card of a former Negro League player, and one card of a Syracuse Baseball Wall of Fame member. Each one considered a great in Chicagoland, and I must say would stack up in most any land. Each of these cards are destined for one of my collection binders.
Not shown, but included in the 25 card set, are Phil Wrigley, Charlie Grimm, Riggs Stephenson, Jimmy Dykes, and a few others I never heard of but had fine careers in "Chicagoland."
I picked up this oddball set off of Ebay for $15 - not bad for a small vintage-age card haul of Hall of Famers and a couple of others that fit nicely into my other collections!
Here we go...
Bill Veeck (Veeck rhymes with "wreck" - see card reverse). I've been searching for a card of this guy for a long time. In fact it was a search for him that led me to this set!
Ernie Banks! Mr. Cub was featured here.
Ted Lyons (top) and Urban "Red" Faber. Lyons played 21 years, all with the White Sox (interrupted by three years of military service during WWII - thank you). His W-L record was 260-230, and he won over 20 games three times. Faber played 20 years, all with the White Sox (including during the 1919 Black Sox scandal). His W-L record was 254-213, and he won over 20 games four times. Lyons and Faber were teammates from 1923 - 1933.
Interesting cards. Wonder how many survived over the years. These are one of those oddball issues that could be super rare with only a handful out there... or there could be thousands of sets sitting in boxes in someone's garage. Then again... what if nobody ever opens those boxes and they remained buried forever.
ReplyDeleteGood question. The price tells me they're either not rare or not of much interest. They're from oddballbobs ebay store.
ReplyDeleteThat's a nice looking set.
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