Babe Ruth wasn’t a leadoff hitter, but one of his old weapons is serving in that capacity in Memory Lane Inc.’s power-packed Fall Classic Auction catalog. A 1922 game-used Ruth bat—with important side-writing from the Louisville Slugger Factory—is being offered in the sale, which is set to open September 30. The bat, sent by Ruth to Kentucky during spring … [Read more...]
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A Taste of Hobby’s Top T206 Collection
It’s the greatest T206 baseball card collection ever assembled. With over 5,000 different player/back combinations out of 5,257 known, David Hall’s assemblage ranks as one of the hobby’s most remarkable achievements. Later this week, a few of the rarest cards in the $10 million collection will be on display at the Long Beach Expo. Hall, the President of … [Read more...]
Hoard of 400+ T206 Cards Uncovered in Maryland; Heads to Auction
A fresh-to-the-hobby collection of 432 T206 baseball cards will hit the auction block for the first time Monday when Huggins and Scott launches its second auction of 2017. Well preserved and in the same family perhaps since they were first pulled from cigarette packages more than a century ago, the collection is an early candidate for the year’s top hobby finds. “The … [Read more...]
Owner of “The Original” T206 Wagner Revealed as Auction Approaches
The baseball crazy youngsters who pestered smokers and caused a major uproar in 1909 upon the release of the American Tobacco Company’s trading cards knew it. Honus Wagner was a huge star but finding his picture was a pain in the Heinie. Little did they know their desires had been trumped by the Pittsburgh Pirates star’s insistence on being left out of what … [Read more...]
Wheatland Offers 1931 Yankees Ball in First Auction of 2017
A 1931 New York Yankees team-signed ball with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, hundreds of vintage sports card sets and lots along with numerous unopened wax, cello and rack pack boxes from the past are among the highlights in Wheatland Auction Services’ new online catalog. Bidding has opened in the auction, which includes over 700 lots and will continue through March … [Read more...]
T206 Insider Website Launches
One of the hobby’s most devoted scholars of the T206 baseball card set has created a new research portal, universal set registry and marketplace for the most popular pre-War set. Scot Reader’s T206 Insider offers a variety of tools aimed at helping readers understand the true scarcity and value of certain cards in the set and register graded cards in one place, even if cards … [Read more...]
Newly Discovered T206 Doyle Error Card Hits Auction
An elderly gentleman’s curiosity has led to the remarkable discovery of the ninth known example of the rare T206 Joe Doyle “NY Nat’l” variation. MBA Seattle Auction is offering the card through Live Auctioneers. Authenticated and graded PSA 2, it’s likely to fetch $150,000 or more when the auction closes August 18. What makes the T206 white-border Joe Doyle card rare and … [Read more...]
T206 Jumbo Wagner Returns to Auction Block This Fall
The hot market for vintage cards is pushing a higher end copy of the hobby’s most famous card back into the marketplace. Goldin Auctions will offer the T206 ‘Jumbo’ Honus Wagner card in an auction that will begin September 12. Graded PSA 5 (MC), the card is 1/16” larger in size than other T206 cards because it was improperly cut at the factory. "Serious collectors … [Read more...]
Fresh T206 Collection Uncovered
A collection of 366 different T206 cards including a low-grade example of the rare Eddie Plank is about to enter the hobby after a find in Massachusetts. The collection, purchased by Just Collect, has about 60 Hall of Famers including three each of Ty Cobb, Cy Young and Christy Mathewson, two Walter Johnson cards and the Plank, considered the third most rare card in the set … [Read more...]
Million Dollar Find in a Paper Bag
The population of one of the rarest baseball cards in the world has grown by seven after an amazing discovery in the rural South. Only about 15 of the rare 1909-1911 T206 Ty Cobb variation, distributed only in tins of the short-lived Ty Cobb Tobacco product, were known to exist until a family began going through the belongings of a family’s deceased great-grandfather. While … [Read more...]
