A T206 day is always a good day around these here parts. I'm very happy I decided to pick up this small group and submit them to SGC on my maiden order with the company. I've got a few left to scan in, write up, and showcase. Today's is a fun little oddity and the 50th different player I've acquired.
Dom Mullaney, a Southern Leaguer, is the newest add to my greatest set ever tobacco collection. On all of my T206 pickup posts I like to include some fun info on the player after reading through their SABR page (and perhaps their Wikipedia page as well). However, for the first time ever, the player I'm showcasing doesn't have a SABR write-up or a Wiki page.
A little internet sleuthing did reveal Mullaney umpired 36 American League games in 1915 and was the first manager of the Savannah Pathfinders of the Southern League, a franchise that would eventually call Shoeless Joe Jackson and Curt Flood two of its alumni. Dom also managed a local bar in the area.
What really drew me to this copy of Mullaney's T206, other than not having one in my T206 PC and the image being stellar, is the lack of color on it. Maybe it was just drowned in some kind of liquid and lost its color, but I prefer to think of the card as missing color passes from the printing process. If it is missing color passes, it falls into the scrap T206 category, something that always calls my name.
The SABR folks seem to be missing a lot of guys. Unfortunately too, for a lot of them, they've probably waited too long to ever get a decent bio up. They really should've started with guys like this back when they first started doing bios and set aside the Cobb's and Clemente's of the world for later.
ReplyDeleteI'm always sad when a player doesn't have a SABR write-up. I've been lucky that most do when I need to find something to include in a post.
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