I'm not a fan of the game. I'm not a fan of the game. I'm not a fan of the game. I'm not a fan of the game. I'm not a fan of the game. Harold Homer Chase. How Chase? I know exactly who to call. Hello, is this Mike? Mike from Kotluking with Mike Armstrong? Oh, I'm sorry. There's too many mics. Your vintage composer, Mike? Hey, I was going to call you next week. All right, cool. You can transfer from me? Part of the worldwide mic network that's neat. All right, thanks, Mike. I'm being transferred. Hello, Mike. Is this Kotluking with Mike Armstrong? Hey, man. I'm glad to call you. This is Scott at Ring Your Studios. How are you? Great, great. Hey, I found a Hal Chase card in my box of goodies. You're the Hal Chase guy, right? I thought you might be interested. It's a 1988 worldwide sports sporting news baseball superstars. What'd you call it? Uh-huh. I'm thinking $375. Yeah, I know it's not worth the paper. It's printed on. All right, how about $75 then? Still no. Okay. Um, $75 and I will throw in a Hal Chase charcoal drawing. Cool, man. Hey, all right. I should have this in the mail in about five minutes. All right, thanks, Mike. Hey, superstars. Welcome back to the quest for my holy grail card. This is my series where I'm trying to sell off worthless cards for an exorbitant amount, so that I can eventually buy my grail card a T206 Sion portrait. But to make it work, I'm including some original art. Wow, that was a long phone call. I'm so sorry to keep you waiting. And I know that 98% of you are wondering who the heck is Hal Chase. Mike from Kotloking with Mike Armstrong is more of the expert on this because Hal is Mike's PC focus right now. But I'll do my best to enlighten you. And the 2% of you who know who Hal Chase is, feel free to troll me if I get something wrong. Simply put, Hal Chase was one of baseball's first bad boys. He played from 1905 to 1919 for the Highlanders, which sound so much more dignified than the Yankees. Doesn't it? Uh, White Sox, Blues, which were in the Federalist League, Reds and Giants. He was a decent hitter, really, really good fielder and big time gambler. He was considered the Highlanders slash Yankees first big superstar and was well respected as a player by the likes of Babe Ruth and Walter Johnson. Chase was a California kid and early in his career, he loved playing in the California leagues during the winters. But Major League Baseball had a rule that you couldn't do both. So Hal played under a fake name Hal Schultz. He was like a rogue cop that doesn't play by the rules or maybe not. Wikipedia, Wikipedia, and from the American League for playing in the Federalist League. Then later in his career as Winnie would get into trouble for gambling, bribing other players and throwing games. He knew about the 1919 Black Sox scandal and was thought to be a big part of it, but it was acquitted. And Chase was still tarnished enough that he was effectively banned from baseball anyway. Really kind of a neat story. You could parallel pre-war gambling issues to 90s PEDs, but you know what? If you want to know more about how Chase, check out Kotloking with Mike Armstrong. He's been showing off some really neat chase cards and pickups recently. It's just fascinating stuff. Hey, it is time for a terrible joke. So there was this sesame seed who kept on betting on sporting events. He'd bet on football, baseball, basketball, Olympics, racing, anything he could find, even underwater rugby. His friend Poppy Seed confronted him one day. Sesame Seed, you got a problem. You need to stop gambling, dude. That's what that Poppy Seed sounds like. Sesame Seed said, nah man, I'm on a roll. This one's been extra fun for me just because I had to do a little research and find out about it. I didn't know a whole lot about it. There are so many stories like this throughout baseball and they seem to get buried a little bit over times. It's fun to dig them out a bit and then make some art and really connect. Alright, there's Prince Howell looking all prinsely. Is he going to catch that ball or does he have 80 bucks riding on this game? Man, here's where I noticed that I forgot to fill my beauty shot. I just ruined the whole video. Idiot! We're getting closer and closer to my Saiyan card. Thanks Mike for asking me to do this one. I really enjoyed it. Thanks everybody for watching. Even though I messed it all up, it's amateur hour all up in here. Like, comment, subscribe, yada yada yada. And we'll catch you next time.