You actually don’t want my evaluate to know this ebook is a terrific learn. All you really want is the ebook’s full title.
ONE SPLENDID SEASON
Baseball and America in 1912
Instructed with the Phrases and Pictures of the
HASSAN TRIPLEFOLDER SET
In spite of everything, if the wedding of one in all baseball’s most storied seasons on document and one of many Passion’s all-time nice baseball card units will not be for you, what are you even doing together with your life? Or at the least what are you even doing studying the SABR Baseball Playing cards weblog?
Writer and SABR member Phil Rosenzweig started his love affair with the 1912 Hassan Triplefolders (T202) in 1970. Since that point he has amassed an exceptional assortment, a lot of which makes it onto the pages of the ebook in wonderful residing shade.
My first “learn” of Phil’s ebook was a bit haphazard. Primarily I simply turned to random pages to marvel on the playing cards and different pictures occupying an excellent 50% of the ebook’s actual property. As a collector whose major expertise with this set had been shopping the web gallery at Buying and selling Card Database, I can’t overstate the service Phil gives in utilizing precise dimension, top quality scans of each card. Amongst different issues, this permits for an appreciation of particulars within the playing cards’ motion pictures and full ease in studying the textual content on every card again.
Past the playing cards themselves, different pictures scattered throughout the pages embody the Paul Thompson studio images behind the participant pictures, associated playing cards from (particularly) the T205 and T206 units, information clippings or pictures associated to the sport motion depicted in heart panels, and classic stadium postcards.
Whereas the visible tour alone made the ebook a winner, it was in my second learn that I actually fell in love with what Phil had put collectively. In a somewhat genius method, Phil makes use of the playing cards and pictures to supply a close to day by day account of the 1912 season, from Opening Day by the ultimate recreation of the World Collection.
There isn’t a approach to learn “One Splendid Season” with out drawing two conclusions.
- The writer actually is aware of this topic!
- The writer actually loves this topic!
Concerning the primary of those, right here is only a sampling, taking from web page 12 of the ebook.
The placement of about half the middle panels could be recognized with certainty. Commonest is Cleveland’s League Park, the place [Louis] Van Oeyen took pictures of George Stovall enjoying first base, and of runners together with Shoeless Joe Jackson sliding into third base. Subsequent is New York’s Hilltop Park the place [Charles] Conlon took pictures of Hal Chase guarding first base and Jimmy Austin at third base, in addition to motion pictures at residence plate. Six heart panels seem to indicate the New York Highlanders’ spring coaching web site in Athens, Georgia, and had been seemingly taken by a younger photographer, Sy Seidman.
The relative shortage of Nationwide League video games in heart panels could be defined by president Thomas Lynch’s 1910 decree to bar photographers from the sphere throughout contests. The few heart panels of Nationwide League video games are from 1907 to 1909, earlier than the ban took impact.
If there’s any draw back to Phil’s ebook, it is just this. It’s very laborious to learn “One Splendid Season” and never be overcome with a temptation so as to add a ton of Triplefolders to your cardboard need checklist. I say this as somebody who at present has one of those playing cards (the “double Nap” that includes a Nap Rucker finish panel and Nap Lajoie heart panel) in my assortment and now feels compelled to gather your entire Brooklyn crew set, apart from again variations, that’s; I’m not a maniac in spite of everything!
In case it’s not clear from the above, I really feel sure Phil’s ebook could be a welcome addition to the bookshelf of any classic card collector or fan of the sport’s historical past. Head to Phil’s website to order a copy in time for the vacations! And in case you haven’t listened already, here is Phil discussing the ebook and card set on Dr. Jim Beckett’s podcast.
ORDER “A SPLENDID SEASON” HERE: pmrbooks.com/t202
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