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Lot # 219: ** MOVED FROM 2019SC ** 1909-10 Sporting Life Magazines with Advertisement for T206 Wagner and M116

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Item was in Auction "Future Auctions",
which ran from 7/6/2024 12:00 AM to
7/14/2024 12:00 AM



Important media grouping that introduced the T206 Honus Wagner baseball card to the world. And it could very well have motivated Honus Wagner himself to have the card pulled. Sporting Life was read by all "serious" baseball people with large numbers of players and execs. Historic July 19th and Sept 18th, 1909, issues sport an ad for the T206 baseball cards. It is likely that these issues were the way Wagner himself spotted the card and to make it worse it used the word "FREE" in large type, further exasperating the Dutchman. The only known original copy - with another sample existing solely in digital scan form. Printed on highly fragile pulp paper stock, these issues are extremely rare and many of the early ones are the only ones known. Originally these were in bound volumes in an important sports museum. Scanned for posterity, this was sliced from the volumes so the spines are split. Known Sweet Caporal advertisement features the ad for Wagner with such superstars of the day as Keeler & Delahanty. There is also an article inside entitled "Cobb's Critics" with a small pic of Ty. An equally impressive April 30th, 1910, issue with article and advertisement for the M116 Sporting Life set with great photo featuring Wagner, Chance, Cobb, Jennings, Mathewson, Bender, and Collins.

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