“I would say that is a great price for the Whitney, especially in that condition,” Dave Levin, a longtime dealer of Old Judge and other baseball cards, told me. Levin marvels at how much Midget outperformed the dozen other Old Judge (N172) cards, the first issue, from 1887-1890, that started the whole baseball card collecting hobby. Everyone from pioneering baseball card historian, Bob Lemke, to commentator and card lover, Keith Olbermann, is in love. The reason: it features “one of the most unusual memorable images to ever appear on a baseball card,” according to Robert Edward Auctions. “Any particular Old Judge pose is relatively scarce,” says Jay Miller, the co-author of The Photographic Baseball Cards of Goodwin & Company 1886-1890.

Source: Forbes September 20, 2017 17:24 UTC