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Card # 14
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Helmar Score 5! Baseball Heads
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| Player |
Position |
Team |
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Jim Thorpe
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Dexterity hand puzzle. Back: blue, twisted swing
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New York Giants
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| Top Auction Price |
Total Sold |
Avg # Bids |
Avg # Bidders |
Last Sold |
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$ 255.00
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13
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8
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5
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September 11, 2024
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About the Player
The short bio from the Helmar-R319 card back: “Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world,” King Gustav told Jim Thorpe at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden, after Jim won the pentathlon and decathlon. Jim is the grandson of the Chippewa warrior Black Hawk. Jim attended the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, where Football coach Glenn “Pop” Warner groomed him in football and other sports. Jim was selected as an All-American in football in ’11 and ’12. In ’13, Jim signed a three-year contract with the New York Giants for a princely sum of $6000 per year.
About the Series
There have been baseball themed games almost as long as the game of baseball has been around. The first baseball parlour game, for example, was advertised in the December, 1866 installment of Leslie Magazine—just a year after Lincoln's assassination! Hundreds of games since that date have delighted fans. However, never to our knowledge has anyone married baseball stars with the popular hand puzzles that were so popular from about 1890 to 1965—until now. We think that you'll spend more quality time with these games than much of the rest of your collection. 2.5" diameter, two sided, glass both sides. Note: puzzles #5 Alexander, 6 Walsh, 20 Ewing, 25 Tinker and 27 Wilson were not issued due to a manufacturing error.
27 puzzles of each number have been produced.
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| Helmar Baseball Heads Score 5!, New York Giants |
| Card # | Thumbnail Pic | Player Name | Position | Top Auction Price |
| 14 |   | Thorpe, Jim | Dexterity hand puzzle. Back: blue, twisted swing | $ 255.00 |
| 20 |   | EWING, Buck | Dexterity hand puzzle. Back: no cap, portrait | $ 0.00 |
| 26 |   | TERRY, Bill | Dexterity hand puzzle. Back: black cap, looking direct | $ 58.00 |
| 27 |   | WILSON, Hack | Dexterity hand puzzle. Back: full figure at end of swing | $ 0.00 |
| 37 |   | YOUNGS, Ross "Pep" | Dexterity hand puzzle. Back: yellow sky, batting follow through | $ 130.27 |
| 43 |   | STENGEL, Casey | Dexterity hand puzzle. Magenta sky, swinging | $ 132.50 |
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