There's no need to get into the backstory of this hurling legend. We all know it. There isn't even a need to rehash his Hall of Fame numbers. We've all read and memorized them countless times before. All that needs to be said at this point is that no player, before or after his time, had more fitting a nickname than Walter Johnson aka "The Big Train". Like the hulking locomotives
As great as he was, Walter Johnson sometimes gets overlooked in the discussion of great players from the first quarter of the last century. You hear about Ruth, Cobb, Wagner, Lajoie, Mathewson and Speaker. Maybe it was his quiet, dignified nature. The Big Train, however, often causes a stir when unique cards of his are up for grabs in the world of card collecting. This week, we have a very interesting and attractive card of
The Chick Gandil E90-3 card we have up for bid this week has a lot going for it. First, it’s Chick Gandil and as serious baseball fans know, he was at the heart of the 1919 Black Sox scandal and this is for all intents and purposes, his rookie card. It’s also part of a candy-issued set that’s much rarer than the popular E90-1 set or the Pittsburgh series E90-2. Issued in Chicago and featuring only players from the Cubs
The 1920s did not produce a plethora of widely collected baseball card sets. The early 20th century “tobacco card” era was essentially over. Cards packed with bubble gum were still several years away. That’s part of the reason we’re excited about a recent consignment of cards from the E121 series produced by the American Caramel Company in 1920. These unnumbered cards portray players who bridge the gap between the two eras. Distributed with individual pieces of caramel made in Pennsylvania, these black and white cards are very popular with collectors. The
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