After watching prices for over a month, let it be noted that the lowest priced PSA 3 card sold in the last month and a half was bought by me. And, now, the lowest priced PSA 2 card is also mine!
OK, probably I just bought the crappiest, most commonest T-206 cards ever and even though I think I'm awesome, I'm no doubt a huge moron, but alas, I feel special.
Red Ames was a pitcher and his claim to fame (here perhaps is proof of my moronicness) is that he is tied for the Major League record of most wild pitches in a career (156)! Awesome! Which also begs the question: Why is he called Red "Ames" then, when obviously he doesn't?
He once pitched a ten inning no-hitter before losing 3-0 in 13 innings! They don't make em like that any more. He "finished his career with a 183-167 record adding 1,702 strikeouts, 209 complete games, 27 shutouts and a lifetime 2.63 earned run average."
"Red Ames' curveball was one of the Deadball Era's most dramatic pitches. "Ames is without question almost the hardest pitcher to catch of the professionals," wrote The Sporting Life in 1906. "Players say no man who holds a place in the pitcher's box is able to curve the ball so far as he can. It is a fact that he doesn't always know himself where his curves are going to land."
"Ames carried a reputation for being "very liberal with passes," often ranking among the league leaders in walks per nine innings, and in 1905 he set a dubious modern record by uncorking 30 wild pitches."
Red, officially named Leon, "damaged his lungs when he accidentally inhaled ammonia fumes emanating from a defective drum. After a lingering illness, Red died on October 8, 1936, at the age of 54."
He is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Warren, OH
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