Ed Lennox 1910-11 Sporting Life (M116) #151
Let’s rewind to 100 years ago, the year: 1910, a time when baseball cards were still used as promotions to entice buyers, in this case, subscribers to a magazine called Sporting Life. We’re talking about 1910-11 Sporting Life M116
. If you are at all familiar with these cards, you’ll notice that they are very similar in size to cards from the famous T-206 set. Similar in size but not nearly as consistent. After doing some research I discovered that quality controls for this set were so lenient that production yielded a high percentage of inconsistent card sizing. The popularity of this set sheds some light on some players whose talent was often overshadowed by superstars such as: Collins, Cobb, Wagner, Speaker, Johnson, Lajoie and Mathewson. Further, an obvious observation about baseball cards released during this time: nobody smiled for the photo shoots. I’m so used to seeing straight faces depicted on anything from the turn of the 20th century that if I were to discover a picture depicting smiles, I would find it to be somewhat anomalous. The 1910-11 Sporting Life M116 set is something peculiar in that player portraits are depicted within a range of differing displays. Take this Ed Lennox card for example. Here we have a floating head over what’s basically a drawing of the man’s presumed upper torso. Truthfully, first viewings of this card induced the hint of a chuckle within me. Other cards in this set depict full torso shots, no drawings. Additionally, there are two known background color variations. This card possesses a pastel background but some cards depict a more scarce blue background. Something to note if you happen to chance an example from this set.
Question of the Day:
Does throwing a banana peal out of a car window and into a courtyard qualify as littering?
Technically, yes, considering it’s still just trash. Just ask the cop that pulls you over next time 😉
Haha! Nice one, Tim. I’ll keep that in mind. 🙂
Law would state that YES it is littering. ive actually had this happen to me with an apple core. My argument was that the apple is biodegradable and if anything i was adding fertilizer and compost to my Mama Earth. As i explained my case to the officer he just continually nodded as he handed me a ticket for littering. Thumbs down! i still do it to this day i just check my surroundings before i toss:-0 oh, and btw-its a good rule of thumb that policemen/women are NOT eco friendly and do NOT like tree-huggers;-)
as a side note, if you’re playing mario-kart, then bombs away:-)
Ahhh, Mario-Kart. Brings back some good memories.
It’s just fruit! Does the same cop threaten to arrest the tree that drops ripe fruit onto the ground when nobody’s around to pick it up? Technically, the same logic applies 😛
Just make sure that if you throw it out, somebody slips on it…would make a good video
Ha! Agreed. So campy and slapstick. 🙂