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chrisoldsFiled under: Beckett Blog | Tags: Andy Broome, Chattanooga, Fred Miller, Indiana Jones, minor league, newspaper, T210, Vintage grader, Wirt Gammon
While not exactly a hobby-shaking discovery, I unearthed a small tidbit that T210 collectors will find interesting.
Like any other trip back home, this past trip I spent a day in the library scanning through yards of microfilm.
Oh, I know what you are saying. Man, this guy is like the Indiana Jones of cards, one adventure after another. What could be more exciting than staring at film of 98-year-old newspapers? Its not even the original paper. Its a 30-plus year old picture on a piece of film of a 98-year-old paper. Now thats what drives the women wild.
I usually have a legal pad I carry with me with info I need to find. Most is baseball related and some is card related. I may pick up a piece of info here or there filling in a hole or two.
This trip one of my quests was to find the first name of a player pictured on a T210 card I have.
We list a few first names along with the players last name in our pricing database for T210’s. Many of these are last name only. Since the T210 set is a minor league set, many of the players never made it to the majors and have been forgotten by history.
Even small town heroes that never made good in the big show have been largely forgotten over the years.
I know the names of all the other T210’s I have in my collection but the newest card I picked up listed as Miller, Chattanooga was a mystery to me.
I knew Mr. Miller had a name and a story to tell. Problem was he wasn’t talking.
As I scanned through the 1910 editions of the Chattanooga Times newspaper for other baseball related research, I kept an eye out for boxscores. Each day Mr. Miller pitched, the reporter would refer to him him as only “Miller”. Well, I can see why we didn’t know his first name. No one ever used his first name!
It was because of sports writer and hobby pioneer Wirt Gammon and his daily feature “Between us fans” that we now know the first name of the player featured on the T210 card known as Miller, Chattanooga.
So here’s to you, Mr. Fred Miller. Sorry it took a few years to remember your first name.
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Hello folks,
From time to time we here at Beckett want to make sure we are doing (or, at least, appearing to be doing) actual work by introducing you to some of our upcoming product releases.
This one has already been published in 2008, but due to overwhelming demand we decided to print another edition this year! The new Beckett Racing Collectibles Price Guide will be hitting stores in a couple months. Sometime in September, to be exactly inexact.
The BRCPG covers everything a racing collector needs to know about cards, die casts, and other racing collectibles. NASCAR, Formula 1, World of Outlaws, Sprint cars, NHRA, all different types of racing are covered. With over 2,900 die cast and card sets priced, the BRCPG lists prices all the way back to 1910! It may be news to some that they even had cars back then…
Obviously the last edition was a big hit because it sold out so quickly, just two months, and was one of our huge successes over the past year. This is perfect for you and the other racing fans in your life. Keep your eyes peeled, you don’t want to be left out again this time…
