Ted Williams aka the Splendid Splinter Show-Off Thread!!!!!!

[MaineMule]

He would have been 90 years old today!!! RIP Teddy Ballgame.........

I have talked about it for a year or so, but today I will be retrieving my vintage Williams collection from my parents house (where the cards have been locked up for 20+ years). It is quite the coincidence to me that today would be his birthday. My plan is over the next week or so to "show off" a couple of great vintage Williams cards every day. Stay tuned, but here are a couple that I have had accesible from my complete 58 set........

 

[thenumberonemetfan]

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that 58 sport magazine is a beautiful card.

 

[blitzerlover]

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Anyone ever been to the Ted Williams museum? Great place.

 

[ThoseBackPages]

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sweet teddy's

 

[MaineMule]

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sweet teddy's

Thanks- I've got my boyhood collection in hand and will be showing some very rare and old Teds. One of the few biggies I do not have is the Wilson Franks card that was packaged with hot dogs. It runs a pretty penny nowadays.....

Stay tuned.......

 

[shuedini]

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Good lookin' stuff there buddy! I like the simpleness of those vintage cards!

 

[mmorgan]

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Great vintage Williams stuff. Someday I hope to have a nice vintage Ted Williams card. At least I have the one in my signature.

 

[jay1065]

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One of the few biggies I do not have is the Wilson Franks card that was packaged with hot dogs.

Such a great shot of Ted on the Wilson card. I would love to own one. Do you have a favorite Williams card? Looking forward to the rest of the cards.

 

[MaineMule]

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OK, I'll throw a few of these out each day..........

1941 Double Play- 2 cards

Love the dual cards!!

 

[scotty21690]

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Love the dual cards!!

Uhh do you have my addy?!?!??????? :shock:



Here are mine:

 

[MaineMule]

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Love the dual cards!!

Uhh do you have my addy?!?!??????? :shock:

Here are mine:

Very nice.......I found that I have the 40 Playball Doerr and 41 Playball Cronin.......have had these since the late 70's......

 

[scotty21690]

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Please scan the Cronin, it's one of my nicest looking cards as well as one of my favorites.

 

[metallicalex777]

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Nice vintage guys...and thanks for reminding us about Teddy's birthday...very respectable!!

Alex

 

[MaineMule]

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Here is Monday's Teddy........

1952 Red Man Tobacco with full tab, one of my nicest conditioned Williams:

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[redsoxfan2510]

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[nevermore]

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I have this vintage-ish card from 1994 Archives (FT/FS by the way). Since I'm too lazy to scan, here is a pic from eBay

 

[bouwob]

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I think ted ku was on the juice. Those are some gunz.

Awsoem collection by the way. I bet many on here which they had the same great stuff.

 

[Greg Cleveland]

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Okay, it's from 1976, which qualifies as vintage, but not from his playing days...

One of my favorite Ted items from Upper Deck. I think I had to send in wrappers for it. Always thought it would look beautiful with a silver auto in the dark part, but it'll have to stay as is.

And who could forget the Ted Williams Card Company? I love that the UD photo and pic in the TWCC logo are the same.

And why not? My two Ted GU: Jersey #/100, bat #/50

 

[MaineMule]

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I think ted klu was on the juice. Those are some gunz.

Awsoem collection by the way. I bet many on here which they had the same great stuff.

.....I love the cutoff uniforms- great eye for seeing that as I had not looked at that closely in some time.

Big gunz is right..........

I've just scratched the surgace of my collection

 

[SKYWALKER]

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