This site is dedicated to a little girl who collected baseball cards between 1908 and 1911. Her name was Florence Dickinson and she lived in Macon Georgia her entire life.
I have nick named this little girl "The Macon Peach", due to her love of Ty Cobb, known as "The Georgia Peach", who was born and raised not too far from Macon.
Florence loved playing baseball and collecting cards. When she would grow up, she would get married and have a daughter, who would bear her two grandsons.
Once a grandmother, she would visit her grandsons in the summer, taking the FEC train from Macon to Miami, where they lived. As the boys grew up, they became interested in baseball and played in both Pee Wee and Little Leagues. Florence was always eager to grab a glove, ball and bat and go out to the back yard for a game of catch or hit a few grounders to warm up her grandsons before their games. She could play well, well into her 60's.
When her oldest grandson was nine or ten, she noticed he was collecting baseball cards and told him she would bring her baseball card collection the next time she came to visit. She did and I'm that grandson. I have treasured her collection for the over 50 years that I have been in possession of them, only taking them out from safe keeping from time to time to remember my grandmother and remark on the history that her collection reveals.
I hope that by displaying her collection here, I might, in some small way, share her passion with the world and secure a spot in the hobby for her, as I believe this is one of very few private collections that have remained intact from the original collector for over 100 years.
I hope the viewers of this site will share my enthusiasm for my grandmother's baseball card collection. Please check out the various series of cards by clicking the sections at the top of this page: T206 - T205 - T3 - T210.
Enjoy.
I have nick named this little girl "The Macon Peach", due to her love of Ty Cobb, known as "The Georgia Peach", who was born and raised not too far from Macon.
Florence loved playing baseball and collecting cards. When she would grow up, she would get married and have a daughter, who would bear her two grandsons.
Once a grandmother, she would visit her grandsons in the summer, taking the FEC train from Macon to Miami, where they lived. As the boys grew up, they became interested in baseball and played in both Pee Wee and Little Leagues. Florence was always eager to grab a glove, ball and bat and go out to the back yard for a game of catch or hit a few grounders to warm up her grandsons before their games. She could play well, well into her 60's.
When her oldest grandson was nine or ten, she noticed he was collecting baseball cards and told him she would bring her baseball card collection the next time she came to visit. She did and I'm that grandson. I have treasured her collection for the over 50 years that I have been in possession of them, only taking them out from safe keeping from time to time to remember my grandmother and remark on the history that her collection reveals.
I hope that by displaying her collection here, I might, in some small way, share her passion with the world and secure a spot in the hobby for her, as I believe this is one of very few private collections that have remained intact from the original collector for over 100 years.
I hope the viewers of this site will share my enthusiasm for my grandmother's baseball card collection. Please check out the various series of cards by clicking the sections at the top of this page: T206 - T205 - T3 - T210.
Enjoy.
FLORENCE IN THE FOURTH GRADE
RIGHT AROUND THE TIME SHE STARTED COLLECTING CARDS.
FLORENCE WOULD GROW UP TO BE AN ARTIST
Of course, her early drawings and sketches would be of her favorite past time.
Florence Was A Great Mother And Grandmother!
Click The Picts For Captions
The Macon Peach <Loved> The Georgia Peach!!
SHE ALSO LOVED THE HOME TEAM
