This is two lies and a truth. Turkey Red edition. The Perez-Steele was the first I picked up. Then the Helmar. This may be my only Helmar piece. But I love it. And just recently, I was able to pick up the real deal, the T3 Turkey Red cabinet card. After waiting for the sleeves and top loaders to arrive, I cracked it from its plastic tomb with ease. It was SGC so it gave up its grip without any major effort. It smells every bit delicious as we were expecting it to!
The Rollins one sent me down a rabbit hole. Continued in the comments.
Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida and Stetson University at nearby De Land, Florida had for years carried on a keen rivalry in sports – particularly baseball. Things heated up in 1903. Stetson, in an attempt to beef up its team, brought in some University of Illinois players and inserted them in the lineup. The Rollins College counterattack involved major league star Rube Waddell and his Philadelphia Athletics battery mate Ossee “Schreck” Schreckengost.
Rollins trustee and avid baseball fan William C. Temple was instrumental in bringing Waddell to Florida in January 1903 where he enrolled as a student and signed up for a business course. The Rollins catcher was unable to handle Waddell’s fast ball (it was reported that Waddell’s speed would frequently flatten his battery mate). Rube insisted if he was going to pitch for Rollins it would require professional catching and that’s how Schreckengost entered the picture.
The day of the big game rolled around and Stetson came down to Winter Park by train. Whether they had their big University of Illinois players with them or not, the sight of the powerful and overwhelming Rube Waddell was too much for them. The Stetson team refused to play and waited for the next train to take them back to De Land.
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The Buffalo Evening News of March 4, 1903 reported: Waddell came here late in December to act as coach for the Rollins College baseball team. “Rube” put in days of strenuous life. He also made a record in baseball. Rollins played Ormond College [sic] and Waddell went onto the slab. He struck out the first man, gave the second his base on balls, then followed three strikeouts and a pop-up fly, all of which netted Ormond four runs. Odd record, wasn’t it? The trouble was caused by the Rollins catcher being unable to hold the third strike. The next inning “Rube” struck out the first two men, but on a muffed fly sent up by the third man both of the batsmen who struck out scored runs. This [was] too much for “Rube” and he went to second base. That night he wired for his old pal, Ossee Schreckengost, to come down here at once. With Schreck catching the Pennsylvania giant could pitch some and Rollins won the next game with Ormond by 1 to 0. Waddell says that he likes to pitch, but does not admire a catcher who will miss the third strike on him six times in two innings.
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