My T206 side project of Wild Bill Donovan’s throwing image, got a new addition today. My first T213 Coupon arrived today and it is also my first of this image when he’s not a Tiger. Up to 5 versions of this image now. Not sure when I’ll get another one, but I’ve said that many times in recent months

Been a little bit since my last T206 adds. Today brings a Facebook group auction win of 4 low grade cards. The Paddy is a duplicate but the prize of the lot isn’t a T206. It’s an E90-1 Caramel card of Tigers HOF manager Hughie Jennings. Happy to check off a non-T206 prewar HOFer. #cardsky

Big day for the Kaline collection. Wasn’t expecting to land this card yet but it came up for the right price and I had to get it. Just need the 64 Tigers Team card and the 64 AL Batting card to complete the Venezuela Topps Kaline run.

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11 down, 3 Venny’s to go. Today’s mail brings me two more Al Kaline Venezuela Topps cards, one of which has 3 HOFers. The only Kaline Venny’s left are 3 cards from 1964. 64 Tigers Team card, 64 AL Batting and the toughest and most expensive AL Bombers with that pesky Mantle guy😭 #cardsky

Willie!

They missed “you have a new message” each time you open up the app. At least for me that’s the case and it’s always a bot telling me what program I could be using for my current job because it just messages me because of my job title. Lol. I’m sure it actually is a useful site but I don’t use it😂

Hahaha my wife and I joke often about how “old” we sound when we talk about a fun child free date day as going out to eat somewhere and hitting up multiple antique stores. It’s really a great time.

My wife and I went to the Columbus book festival last summer and Matt was there signing. We had never heard of his books but his line was INSANE compared to other authors there. I got the book for Christmas and finally read it last week and I’m just wrapping up book two. A fun series for sure!

Awesome T206 mailday today. Added 3 more Southern Leaguers to the set build and an Old Mill Brain as well. Then we’ve got a nice Hooker from the South that @lolbrarian.bsky.social asked me to find for him. 😁

1960 is one of my most favorite sets and it’s really underrated. The All Star Subset that year is one of the best that they did. The 8 pocket pages are great for a horizontal set. No neck cranking😁

He’s been claimed, along with a few other Southern Leaguers I needed. I’ll message you later this week when it arrives.

Does this Hooker look good to you? 😂 sounds hilarious typing it out. A seller in a Facebook group has it for $65 plus shipping. If you’re interested, I’ll grab it and we can work out the details when it gets here.

I’ll keep a look out for another. Ironically Hooker is one of the 6 southern leaguers I’ve got and is the only Old Mill Southern Leaguer. This copy is actually pretty fragile, which is the only reason I was able to snag an old mill one not brutally trimmed. 😂

Long way to go on that one but I’m gonna give it my best effort!

Hahahaha. Hey corners aren’t always important with the way we’re collecting but if you can get them, that’s a plus.

Thanks!

Today’s T206 mailday brings me HOF’er Eddie Collins. He’s beat up like his non related HOF Collins brethren Jimmy in my set. I’m up to 156 cards out of 520 but Eddie brings me up to 41 Hall of Famers out of 74 obtainable ones, (I’m not counting the two requiring the lottery😂)

Wait, they did two versions of that Riley? Off to look in my Daughter and I’s Riley collection now..lol

But do you have the yellow letter version? I haven’t bit the bullet on that one for my Kaline PC yet.

Lou thought these cards were the coolest thing when my buddy and I met him a few years ago at a signing. When my friend explained the card to him, he grabbed it and had the biggest smile on his face, showing it to everyone behind the table. I still need to get Tram to sign my card to complete it.

Not yet but my oldest daughter and I collect Riley Greene and now I’m gonna have to snag this card. That’s a great image!

You can even count another Tiger here with Heinie Manush. 😂

You made me get out my set binder. Lol. Here’s your non-Tiger coaches and managers in 54 Topps.

Yesterday crossed off a big name T206 for my set build. My newest T206 HOFer is one I didn’t think I’d cross off this year. It’s one that also helps with the Tigers team set. This stunning Red Cobb joins his stellar bat on brethren. Anyone got a Green Cobb or bat off Cobb that’s just his nose up?😂

I can’t say I’ve heard that before. At the same time, I’m not surprised that Bill Veeck would have been that owner who would try to pull this off either at that time. Pretty cool factoid here.

It is a pretty decent core of guys. 😁

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They really are outstanding! My oldest daughter will pull up a lot of newer SNL sketches on YouTube and some of them have been her sketches. Celine Dion singing about MMA and the UFC had me rolling! 🤣

Thanks! Compared to a lot of other HOFers, his Venezuelan cards aren’t too terribly expensive. His 60 Topps and 64 AL Bombers card are probably his two most expensive. I haven’t spent more than $50 on a card of his outside of 1960 so far. The Venezuelan Topps Facebook group has them often for sale.

My wife and I watch this every year and we always talk about the ridiculousness of the movie. For one, the reason you stated. But two, my brother was in the Peace Corps and met his wife while doing that. And there is no way barring a family emergency, that he could have came home after a month. Lol