Honus Wagner

And, of course, all eyes on Rose this afternoon.

He has tied Honus Wagner for the all-time national league record of both singles in the history of the league.

2,426.

His next base hit will break it.

Run scored.

And, of course, he broke the singles record set by...

Honus Wagner.

Strike one on Rose.

Ty Cobb, five straight.

Rod Carew and Honus Wagner, four straight.

And now maybe Boggs, four straight.

He said about Puckett, when they asked Kirby about it, he said about when they said, pray, pray for

In fact, the whole NFC thing kind of I felt like was one of those waves of like bugs that you see that kind of just drift by you don't even feel it it kind of looks like this big ominous cloud on the horizon and this kind of drifts by almost like fog or something like that that's really what tulip mania ended up being it was a few hundred people that were speculating on the tool market but they were all rich people anyway and they could afford to lose the money and they in the and the speculation not never got to the level that know people were saying it didn't you know never got to the millions of dollars equivalent for a single tulip bulb in fact as far as i can tell some of the biggest prices for tulip bulbs which were significant you know maybe a a year's salary for an average worker were because of a very rare mutated tulips that created very specific flowers.

And so having a very unique flower, kind of like owning a specific legal document or historical artifact or the Honus Wagner baseball card or something like that, just because it's so rare and unique, that's what commanded that special price.

Not just any tulip bulb, not just that Joe Smote tulip bulb, you know, that... kirkland brand tulip bowl that you'd get at costco no these were like uh basically mosaic virus infected tulips that created very unique color patterns and designs on the tulip leaves you know when we think of tulips or i think of tools i think of them as very monochromatic you know bright colors but just a single color but kind of very ornate tulips uh were the ones that had the biggest prices and again nowhere near the prices that they you know, historians or storytellers, I think, conveyed.

Now, my issue is with this.

206 is, yes, the legendary baseball card set.

Why? Because there was this one card by Honus Wagner.

It was produced in 1909 and he was the Pittsburgh Pirates player at the time.

He was a superstar.

He was really well known and very few copies of this card exist.

Once baseball card collecting became famous, and I can go back to my early days when you would look in Baseball Digest, look in Sporting News, at the very back, they would talk about how valuable and how rare the Honus Wagner baseball card is still today.

There's only 50 to 60 known copies of this particular card.

And why is it so rare and valuable? Well, the story goes back to apparently Honus objected to smoking in general and the fact that tobacco advertising was being aimed at children.

Chicago won it 3-2 in 1909.

And Honus Wagner in that year.

Set an all-time high for stolen bases in the World Series against the Detroit Tigers and Tycox.

Foul back.

Two players that didn't produce but saw two players that were unanimously selected as the all-time greatest players in their position.

Traynor, who's here now, played third.

And, of course, the late Honus Wagner, who played short and is adjudged by many as the greatest player of all time.

Yes, good to see Pye out at the ballpark again.

So, yeah, it was a literal house of cards.

Was it Honus Wagner as well? Yeah.

Yeah.

That was the big one.