What's In Ted's Wallet?: The Newly Revealed T206 Baseball Card Collection of Thomas Edison's Youngest Son
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Thomas Edison was a long-time baseball fan. In his younger years, he once proclaimed, he could have named the players on the roster of every major league team, and even later he followed the press accounts of each day's games. It was an interest he seems to have passed on to his youngest son, Theodore, known to many as Ted.
In the summer of 1909, Ted, age eleven, began to collect baseball cards which he kept in a ratty old wallet. These were not just any baseball cards. Over the following months, Ted Edison collected sixty-one cards, featuring fifty-eight players, from the now much-prized T206 series published and distributed in packs of cigarettes from the American Tobacco Company. His collection included nine players who would, beginning some thirty years later, appear on plaques in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Ty Cobb. Christy Mathewson. Walter Johnson. Frank Chance. He had them all, and more.
When Ted passed away in the 1990s, his family donated many of his personal effects, his personal papers, his archive of Edison Company corporate papers, and more to the Thomas Edison National Historical Park. Included in the donation was a well-worn old wallet dating to 1909, complete with Ted's collection of T206 cards. He had held onto those cards for more than eight decades.
The authors came across the cards while doing archival research on Edison and baseball. This book is their effort to share with readers both the cards themselves and the story surrounding them.
Knorr, Lawrence: - LAWRENCE KNORR is a lifelong baseball fan and member of SABR. He has written or co-authored several baseball books and numerous other histories and biographies. Lawrence graduated from Wilson College with a BA in Business and Economics with a minor in History. He earned an MBA from Penn State, focusing on finance and operations. He has completed all course work and comprehensive exams at Liberty University and is now working on his dissertation required for a Ph.D. in History. Lawrence has had a long career in information technology and has been an entrepreneur and executive. He is the founder and CEO of Sunbury Press, Inc., the trade publisher. You can listen to Lawrence's podcast, The Sunbury Press Books Show on the BookSpeak Network.
Manheim, J. B.: - J B MANHEIM is Professor Emeritus at The George Washington University, where he developed the world's first degree-granting program inpolitical communication and was later founding director of the School of Media & Public Affairs. In 1995 he was named Professor of the Yearfor the District of Columbia. He learned his love of baseball watching Dizzy Dean on the Game of the Week and huddling with his grandfather for warmth on July nights at The Mistake By The Lake, AKA, Cleveland Municipal Stadium, and renewed it when the National Pastime finally returned to the Nation's Capital. He is a member of SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) and the Internet Baseball Writers Association of America.
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