My vintage card of the week: The T206 Cy Young “Glove Shows.” Pitching has always been my favorite part of the game. And, thanks to the award named after him, there is probably no other pitcher in the game’s history whose name is more synonymous with greatness on the mound. There are three varieties of T206 Young cards, but this one has always been my favorite.

Another beauty on display at the Dallas Card Show.

1910 Sweet Caporal T206 Ty Cobb

When the world gets me down I turn to baseball cards. For my money, it doesn't get much better than the horizontal T206 cards...

A neat experience seeing the small portion of the Jefferson R Burdick Collection currently on display at the Met. From their website: In 1947, Syracuse electrician Jefferson R. Burdick (1900–1963) began to donate his collection of approximately 303,000 advertising inserts, postcards, baseball cards, and posters to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection constitutes a primary part of the Museum’s collection of ephemera, and helps tell the history of popular printmaking in the United States.

The photos:

1. 1887 Gold Coin (N284)

2. 1909-11 White Borders (T206)* and 1912 Brown Background (T207). *There is a Wagner in the collection, but it is not on display.

3. 1911 Gold Borders (T205)

4. 1933 Goudey (R319)

5. 1938 Goudey Heads-Up (R323)

6. 1951 Bowman (R406-5)