This time there are only 6 cards, with cards used in its most liberal fashion....

Some hints... 4 of the 5 single subject items depict HOFers.

That first tall one came from something you read.

Then, across the top, wear, eat, chew, write off for...

Then a team photo of Yankee-beaters!!! What's it from??

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We get this one done, then it's been a good night. I'll dig more stuff out another day. Frank.

McGinnity left

DS Hornsby.

The McGinnity is from a Burr McIntosh magazine.

1946 Remar Breads Stengel

Good so far, guys.

I still lack a couple of Burr McIntosh's... I kept trying for a McGinnity, had a helluva time getting one. I'd get outbid. I'd call just after one sold. One of those Old Cardboard rascals outbid me on one on eBay, I think... I finally got one!!


1) *** for Mark, BMarlowe, and **** for Dan, McGinnity, Burr McIntosh.
2) ********* for Dan, Remar Bread Casey Stengel Well done!!!
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4) **** for Peter, National Chicle's Diamond Stars, Rogers Hornsby.
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6)

#5 is a Cardinals team issued "dear Friends" postcard

1) Burr-McIntosh McGinnity
2) Remar Bread Stengel
3) Remar Bread Maurice Van Robays (could be Smith's Clothing though)
4) Diamond Stars Hornsby
5) St. Louis Cardinals Team Issued PC Red Schoendeinst "Dear Friend" type
6) 1927 M114 Cardinals

Just to clarify the M114 is a Basball Magazine Premium/Poster
-Rhett

Rhett has just knocked the ball outa here!!!!!


1) *** for Mark, BMarlowe, and **** for Dan, McGinnity, Burr McIntosh.
2) ********* for Dan, Remar Bread Casey Stengel Well done!!!
3) ******Rhett, you PCL scholar. Smiths Clothing Maurice Van Robays.
4) **** for Peter, National Chicle's Diamond Stars, Rogers Hornsby.
5) **JDrum for Cards pc, **** for Rhett, for IDing and spelling Schoendienst
6) *******Rhett. 1927 M114, depicting the 1926 World Champions


Van Robays was attributed for naming the Eephus pitch, that thing that Ted Williams slammed outa the park (like Rhett did IDing) in the 1946 All Star Game. In 1942 Reporters, after a game, were asking what the pitch was, Pitcher Rip Sewell didn't respond, Van Robays said it was an Eephus Pitch. The reporters asked what that was, and Van Robays said an Eephus ain't nothing, and that's what that pitch was. The name stuck.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Van_Robays

Enough for now, guys... I'll get some more cards together in a few days. Thank you for participating. It's better than arguing politics. Frank W.

Great stuff, Frank. Thanks.

Frank, If I didn't know you better I would swear that you were making fun of me for mispelling Schoendienst's name!
-Rhett

Yikes!!!!

Truthfully, I figured anyone who put down Schoendienst either knew how to spell it, or looked it up. I now see you did neither. But you knew who he was. I didn't notice the misspelling. I used to have a helluva time with it, so I sat down and learned it.


I think I'm going to work on this photo card ID thing and come up with some sort of Master Card Identifier award.

Impressive IDing, Rhett.

No problem, I'm just giving you a hard time! I just switched the i and the e around (I tend to do that sometimes), I realized I did it after I sent it, but didn't care enough to edit, then I see you making fun of me!
-Rhett

Born in Germantown, Illinois of German ancestry....the German translation of his name is...."beautiful servant".

I met him in Cooperstown several years ago (he was 80 at the time) and he looked like he could still trot out
to 2nd base and play BB.

A wonderful guy to chat with, and a very humble man.

Frank, I am sure you know this, being a Cardinals fan......some of the nicest BB players that I have met and
chatted with are......

Johnny Mize (my favorite....I visited him at his home in Demorest, GA)
Stan Musial
Enos Slaughter
Bill White


TED Z

Ted, your Yankee prejudice shows, thinking Mize the nicest.

I've seen Mr. Musial in person, he seemed very nice. I wrote him and got him to sign a frame mat, that I was putting around a Musial Exhibit card. He personalized it to my Dad for his birthday. Dad was quite impressed with it, having listened to Cardinals games on the radio in the 40s.

I've spoken with Mr. Schoendienst. A really nice man. And he has to be way up there among folks who've seen the most ballgames.

Never met Mize or Slaughter, but Slaughter seems grateful to have been given a chance to play in the majors.

I've heard Mr. White is a very thoughtful, intelligent fellow. I'd love to meet him. I remember laying in the floor in 1964, listening to games on the radio, through the static. Bill White could put the hurt on the ball.

More info...

McGinnity is from the Oct 1903 Burr-McIntosh Monthly Magazine (There is also a NY NL Team picture in same issue)

The Schoendienst is from an issue called PC755 "Dear Friend" Postcards and looks to be from the 1951-52 series (if it has a Sportsman Park Address on the back)

others are easy

Yes, my Yankees favoritism reveals itself when I talk about Johnny Mize.

I first met him at a NJ BB card show in 1981. I was set-up at the show and Big John was sitting at the adjacent
booth signing his autograph for the public. During our idle moments we struck up quite a conversation.

I reminisced with him about the 1952 World Series where he single-handedly beat the Dodgers with 3 game win-
ning HR's and a would be 4th HR that Carl Furillo leaped into the RF stands to catch it.

Five years later we stopped in Demorest, GA (driving to FLA) and I had a really nice visit with Johnny. John was
quite an independent spirit in his BB playing days. I asked him why the Cardinals, and then the Giants traded him
when he was playing at his peak performance ? He said that they wouldn't meet his salary demands, so he asked
to be traded.
I recall like it was just yesterday, when the Yankees acquired Mize from the Giants on Aug 19, 1949. As a 10-year
old, I was very excited, as I recalled that the year before he hit 51 HR's. Mize (on and off the field) contributed
greatly to the 1949-53 "dynasty" years of the Yankees.


Bill White....
I loved to listen to Bill announcing the Yankees games with Phil Rizzuto. I met Bill at a Show in Asbury Park, NJ
in 1990. I waited till the end of his signing session so I could talk with him. We had a great conversation and I'll
never forget as we were parting....he stood up offered me his hand and thanked me for a very pleasant conver-
sation....what a fine gentleman.

Years later at the Cooperstown Show, two gals in their early 20's were at my table asking me for Bill White BB
cards. We started a conversation, and I soon realized they were Bill White's Daughters. They were such a de-
light to talk with.


TED Z

fkw... How have you become so wise in the ways of Burr McIntosh??

I lack 2, I think. I have a couple of spares, too.

As best as I can tell, McGinnity is the only individual major leaguer depicted.

One of the Old Cardboard guys asked me about putting together a list / article about them. But then he outbid me on a McGinnity, so I decided to not be helping him with info... maybe I've mellowed from that and might tackle it. Do you have the dates on all of them?? The one of the New York Giants looks great!!


The Schoendienst I put up has the Bush Stadium address, and a 1954 postmark. I have another with a portrait shot of Schoendienst, the Sportsman's Park address, and a 1952 postmark, but it has some cellophane tape residue on the front.

fkw, you're a ballcard scholar!


TED, I only heard snippets of Bill White in the broadcast booth. I have a recollection of a family photo of him, with daughers, in the 64 or 65 Cardinal yearbook. I think the 64 one. So you just walk up and talk to Johnny Mize... you're the man!

ha ha Frank... thanks

I dont have a big collection now, but Ive owned most of these items in the past. I used to be a big (low grade) "type card" collector but always a poor one (no $) so Im always selling my good stuff to pay bills and take gold diggers on exotic trips

also Just bought my first home (solar jungle cabin with no internet or tv) so not buying many cards nowadays..... until I actually find a "good" job here (fat chance) where there is no jobs besides growing pakalolo like all my kook neighbors.

aloha