September Pickups- T206 Hall of Famers!

This month has to be the best month of card pick ups I've ever had. Managed to get two T206 Hall of ​Famers in Christy Mathewson, and John "Muggsy McGraw", the first couple of 76 hopefully! 

Mathewson is a hero of mine, so this is a really exciting get for me.

I was able to scoop up the McGraw on a random weekday night on Ebay going for way under what I imagined a hall of famer to be. I know it's a trimmed copy, but it will work for now! The Mathewson was a card I had my eye on, but was a little overpriced for being a card I wasn't absolutely in love with as a beat up copy. But the price lowered and I couldn't pass up the chance at my first Mathewson. Always room to upgrade down the road.

How ironic is it that I was able to acquire the coach and pitcher without planning on buying either, for great deals! The story goes that Mathewson and McGraw actually lived together at one point, there is a great article here on SI that goes into more detail on the two.

My parameters are the following for the T206 set:

  1. Commons- Raw beater copies for a binder. A few off backs sprinkled in would be nice.
  2. Hall of Famers- Graded by SGC, low grade preferably to cut down on costs
  3. Mathewson's- Would love to get all 3, and the white cap be minimum SGC 1.5 / 2

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