This was not one of my better ebay purchases. $17 for six cards. Seemed like a fun eclectic mix but if I'd done a minute of research I wouldn't have bothered.
These were three of the cards. I knew I had the '57 McDaniel. Apparently I have enough '52s now that I forgot I had Mele already. Well it's my first ever dupe of a '52 Topps. The Buck Weaver card looked cool, even though I knew there was a chance that a playing-days card of a Black Sox player might not be real. Again, if I had done even a tiny bit of research I would have seen that it was a reprint.
At least I needed these three. Any 1936 card is a good one. The Bowman commons are nice even if too pricy at what I paid.
The Kuzava is an interesting one. (Pictured with the back of the Weaver card with the same brown spots as every Weaver on Etsy.) Kuzava looks like a Yankee here but he's actually a Senator on this 1951 Bowman card. He was traded to the Yankees in June of '51 and quickly became a 1950s version of a closer, getting the final outs of both the 1951 and 1952 World Series. Until I had the card in hand I didn't even realize what was written on it. I have no idea if it's a real autograph, but if it is it looks like the inscription is describing the picture? Starts with "While in the warmup" but I can't make out the last word.
It happens from time to time.
ReplyDeleteThe Weaver Baking Co. card looks interesting. Although it's a reprint, it still looks old. Wonder when it was released.
ReplyDeleteFew things have gone up more since the boom started than original Black Sox items, so the odds of finding one in a random lot (especially one for sale online) are almost next to nil. Because of the increase in prices, counterfeit Black Sox items are now very plentiful, meaning that just about any old looking Black Sox card you find in a random lot is almost guaranteed to be a fake/reprint.
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