Happy Thanksgiving Everyone and I never thought instead of turkey, I was having "Whale" -
Stone193
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Yes everyone - it's Whale for Thanksgiving!
Major League "Indoor" Base Ball - 1912 - Philadelphia Manufacturing Co.
I've landed my "whale" of games - the "centerpiece of my collection" - I was not only amazed and happy but surprised since it went for the minimum bid.
I had confided in Butch over at the BB Game Forum who believed the game was legit - as did I. So, when it came and I looked with a 20X mag, I was happy to say - it's the "real deal." He also believed the game would go for 2 to 3 grand or more - so landing it for $998 bucks was like a dream.
Moreover, Butch astutely surmised that the fact that it wasn't listed in sports may have allowed it to fly under the radar?
There's two versions of the game - one with stars on it - the "Indoor" version and a more generic version sans the indoor that I believe came out afterwards.
The indoor version came out in 1912 and the game has no patent - "Patents Applied For."
The generic games appear to all have the patent number:
I further postulate that - perhaps - they came out with the "indoor" version and were immediately stopped from producing the game with the "likenesses" of all those ballplayers - many of them well on their way to the HOF - all - most likely - popular during this time period.
In fact, of the 16 players on the game board - 11 made it to the HOF!
Four HOF'ers were early in their careers - Speaker in 6th of a 22 yr career, Johnson 6th of 21 yrs, Baker 5th of 13 yrs and Cobb 7th of 24 years.
The five not in the hall: Kling, Dooin, Rucker, Beecher and Chase.
The game - overall - is in "Good" condition - the bottum being a bit better.
And here's the players:
The portraits on the game appear to be from the T206 set:
I'll be spending time seeing how complete the game is - and fortunately I have spares from a partial game I bought years ago that I believe was an "indoor" version where they took the top off and framed it due to all the HOF'ers on it.
And last, as a game nut, I have to linnk the Patent to the game by Edgar Pohlig in 1912.
I don't want to sound like a school kid or anything - but this by far the best game I have ever put my hands on and am excited!!!!
Major League "Indoor" Base Ball - 1912 - Philadelphia Manufacturing Co.
I've landed my "whale" of games - the "centerpiece of my collection" - I was not only amazed and happy but surprised since it went for the minimum bid.
I had confided in Butch over at the BB Game Forum who believed the game was legit - as did I. So, when it came and I looked with a 20X mag, I was happy to say - it's the "real deal." He also believed the game would go for 2 to 3 grand or more - so landing it for $998 bucks was like a dream.
Moreover, Butch astutely surmised that the fact that it wasn't listed in sports may have allowed it to fly under the radar?
There's two versions of the game - one with stars on it - the "Indoor" version and a more generic version sans the indoor that I believe came out afterwards.
The indoor version came out in 1912 and the game has no patent - "Patents Applied For."
The generic games appear to all have the patent number:
I further postulate that - perhaps - they came out with the "indoor" version and were immediately stopped from producing the game with the "likenesses" of all those ballplayers - many of them well on their way to the HOF - all - most likely - popular during this time period.
In fact, of the 16 players on the game board - 11 made it to the HOF!
Four HOF'ers were early in their careers - Speaker in 6th of a 22 yr career, Johnson 6th of 21 yrs, Baker 5th of 13 yrs and Cobb 7th of 24 years.
The five not in the hall: Kling, Dooin, Rucker, Beecher and Chase.
The game - overall - is in "Good" condition - the bottum being a bit better.
And here's the players:
The portraits on the game appear to be from the T206 set:
I'll be spending time seeing how complete the game is - and fortunately I have spares from a partial game I bought years ago that I believe was an "indoor" version where they took the top off and framed it due to all the HOF'ers on it.
And last, as a game nut, I have to linnk the Patent to the game by Edgar Pohlig in 1912.
I don't want to sound like a school kid or anything - but this by far the best game I have ever put my hands on and am excited!!!!
Mike
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1994 Pro Line Live
TheDallasCowboyBackfieldProject
Doug
Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
<< <i>Ok, I'll admit it Mike. I was expecting to see some kind of whale meat
I don't want you to be disappointed on Thanksgiving Day Matt.
Doug
Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
Whale is actually a common dish served in Iceland. As much as I love sushi, I think I would pass on the whale.
Good stuff, Mike. You always have some very interesting items.
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
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<< <i>Ok, I'll admit it Mike. I was expecting to see some kind of whale meat
I don't want you to be disappointed on Thanksgiving Day Matt.
Someone must of got a Whale of Deal on that slab. LOL
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<< <i>Ok, I'll admit it Mike. I was expecting to see some kind of whale meat
I don't want you to be disappointed on Thanksgiving Day Matt.
I appreciate you thinking of me Doug haha.
1994 Pro Line Live
TheDallasCowboyBackfieldProject
Lots of history behind a piece like that.
Matt, don't tell me you'd never had fried whale sandwiches growing up, LOL!!
Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
Thanks,
David (LD_Ferg)
1985 Topps Football (starting in psa 8) - #9 - started 05/21/06
Awesome, just awesome.
you'll never be able to outrun a bad diet
Congrats, nice holiday treat.
collecting RAW Topps baseball cards 1952 Highs to 1972. looking for collector grade (somewhere between psa 4-7 condition). let me know what you have, I'll take it, I want to finish sets, I must have something you can use for trade.
looking for Topps 71-72 hi's-62-53-54-55-59, I have these sets started
www.questfortherookiecup.com
Someday you may have so many of these that you might have to start a sports memorabilia museum .
Again , nice pick up . ----- Sonny
Jmaciu's Collection
Way to go, Mike!
That is awesome.
Bosox1976
Sharing my number 1 pickup means a lot to me.
That's a TREMENDOUS piece. Great pickup.
Mike
The game looks awesome. Most excited about your excitement.
Congratulations!
Scott
Hi Steve.
<< <i>from LarkinCollector: Thought the thrill of the chase is gone, I hope you continue to get enjoyment out of finally owning it >>
Hiya Kyle - I'm thinking you meant "though?" And I sure understand your sentiment. Someone asked me: "now what?" Snagging a whale is important but game collectors are always looking for the uncatalogued games and there's many.
Like this one that I picked up recently and Butch, et.al., from the BB Game Forum were really enthralled with this pickup. I wouldn't be surprised if there's way more games to be discovered than uncatalogued cards?
Though I have not named everyone specifically, I appreciate each and every person who has given me compliments. Everyone here who's nuts about collecting knows how important this personally is. Happy Thanksgiving.
<< <i>from LarkinCollector: Thought the thrill of the chase is gone, I hope you continue to get enjoyment out of finally owning it
Hiya Kyle - I'm thinking you meant "though?" And I sure understand your sentiment. Someone asked me: "now what?" Snagging a whale is important but game collectors are always looking for the uncatalogued games and there's many. >>
Yes, you understood correctly, sorry for my typo