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Do you think Mark McGwire should be in the Hall of Fame?
- By ScriptOhio
- Professional Baseball
- 215 Replies
Shoeless Joe Jackson baseball card from 1910 sells for $492,000
A Shoeless Joe Jackson baseball card from a 1910 series called T210 Old Mill has sold at auction for $492,000.
Foster had found his father's old baseball card collection in a metal lunch pail in an unfinished room in the back of his dad's law office. Initially going through the cards, there were some Roberto Clemente and Sandy Kofax Topps cards from the '50s, but nothing that overtly stood out.
"My dad had always assumed that he lost his baseball card collection somehow when he moved in with my mom and he thought it was just gone," Foster said. "That was back in 2009. At the time, I was in high school, so we took the box home and looked at it that day. I didn't take a full inventory, I just flipped through them."
Foster straightened up the cards in the box after seeing a few were worth a couple dollars and decided that, at some point, he would take a more thorough look at what the collection held.
Over 10 years went by and after traveling home for Christmas in 2019, Foster decided it was time to take a deep dive into the collection. He and his father sat down together and went through the lot. After getting through the Topps cards, Foster noticed a large number of smaller cards at the bottom.
They were Tobacco cards from the early 1900s, and included Cy Young and Ty Cobb, among others.
"I'm not a huge baseball history buff, so I didn't realize immediately Ty Cobb was playing in 1910," Foster said. "I sent a picture to a group of friends with the Ty Cobb and Cy Young and a friend texted me back saying I should get them insured. That's when I started to do more research and found out they were the T206 cards."
Those are a rare and older set of cards that have produced a high value in recent years. A Honus Wagner T206 card sold for $1.35 million in 2019, so Foster naturally scoured the group of 585 cards for a Wagner -- but it never came up.
He took inventory by photographing each card, then took notice of similar cards that had a red border instead of the white border found on the T206 cards. Research found that these cards were produced the same year in 1910, but were images of minor league players rather than professionals.
They were T210 Old Mill cards, but didn't have an overwhelming value unless there was a Shoeless Joe Jackson card in the lot.
"I went through the stack and found 'Jackson, New Orleans,' and showed it to my dad," Foster said. "There must have been a miscommunication about the minor league thing because I asked him if this was Shoeless Joe Jackson and he said, 'No, New Orleans wouldn't have had a major league team and he wouldn't have played for them that year.' So I put it back in the stack and kept taking inventory."
Entire article: https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/29151803/shoeless-joe-jackson-baseball-card-1910-sells-492000
I remember seeing this baseball card find on Strange Inheritance:
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https://statelinesportsnetwork.net/2019/04/08/defiances-million-black-swamp-baseball-card-find/
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Got Milk?
- By ScriptOhio
- Open Discussion (Work-safe)
- 16 Replies
Carnation Milk: A True Story
A little old lady from Wisconsin had worked in and around her family dairy farms since she was old enough to walk, with hours of hard work and little compensation.
When canned Carnation Milk became available in grocery stores in the 1940s, she read an advertisement offering $5,000 for the best slogan.
The producers wanted a rhyme beginning with ‘Carnation Milk is best of all.’
She thought to herself, I know everything there is to know about milk and dairy farms.
I can do this!
She sent in her entry, and several weeks later, a black car pulled up in front of her house.
A large man got out, knocked on her door and said, “Ma’am,…..The president of Carnation milk absolutely LOVED your entry…..So much, in fact, that we are here to award you $1,000 even though we will not be able to use it for our advertisements!”
He did, however, have one printed up to hang on his office wall.
Entire article: https://goodnewsaday.wordpress.com/2012/06/13/carnation-milk-a-true-story/
A little old lady from Wisconsin had worked in and around her family dairy farms since she was old enough to walk, with hours of hard work and little compensation.
When canned Carnation Milk became available in grocery stores in the 1940s, she read an advertisement offering $5,000 for the best slogan.
The producers wanted a rhyme beginning with ‘Carnation Milk is best of all.’
She thought to herself, I know everything there is to know about milk and dairy farms.
I can do this!
She sent in her entry, and several weeks later, a black car pulled up in front of her house.
A large man got out, knocked on her door and said, “Ma’am,…..The president of Carnation milk absolutely LOVED your entry…..So much, in fact, that we are here to award you $1,000 even though we will not be able to use it for our advertisements!”
He did, however, have one printed up to hang on his office wall.
Entire article: https://goodnewsaday.wordpress.com/2012/06/13/carnation-milk-a-true-story/
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Clint Eastwood (you feel lucky?)
- By Steve19
- Open Discussion (Work-safe)
- 46 Replies
Oakland Park Barber Shop, Linden, 1965The scenes in the barbershop were fucking hilarious.
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