What's In Ted's Wallet?: The Newly Revealed T206 Baseball Card Collection of Thomas Edison's Youngest...

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J B Manheim Lawrence Knorr

What's In Ted's Wallet?

The Newly Revealed T206 Baseball Card Collection of Thomas Edison's Youngest Son

J B Manheim, Lawrence Knorr

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Sunbury Press, Inc.
25 April 2024

Biography: arts & entertainment; Antiques & collectables; Antiques & collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera & printed matter; Baseball

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.

By: J B Manheim, Lawrence Knorr
Imprint: Sunbury Press, Inc.
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 213g
ISBN: 9798888192184
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 25 April 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

JB Manheim is Professor Emeritus at The George Washington University, where he developed the world's first degree-granting program in political communication and was later founding director of the School of Media & Public Affairs. In 1995 he was named Professor of the Year for 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. Lawrence Knorr has authored or co-authored over 30 books, mostly on history or biography. He is a member of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), the Sons of the American Revolution, and numerous other historical organizations. He enjoys most writing about the formerly famous and his beloved Pennsylvania Dutch culture. He is a lifetime Penn State alum and holds a Ph.D. in History from Liberty University.

Reviews for What's In Ted's Wallet?: The Newly Revealed T206 Baseball Card Collection of Thomas Edison's Youngest Son

""Found among the donated items - and of special interest to those of us who are students of baseball history - was Ted Edison's tattered wallet containing 61 vintage T206 cards dating from the Deadball Era years of 1909 and 1910. For this discovery, we are very grateful; as we are to J.B. Manheim and Lawrence Knorr for documenting the collection in their outstanding new book."" BaseballHistoryComesAlive.com ""Astonishing"" ""Delicious"" ""Wonderful"" Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine ""[a] fine addition to the literature of the game."" The Inside Game ""Captur[es] the evolution of baseball and its cultural significance."" Readers' Favorite ""A window into the mind of a young collector from a privileged family during the heyday of early baseball."" The Publisher