The first Italian American of baseball.   Ed Abbaticchio.

The Top 8 Most Expensive Baseball Cards Of All Time

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1	1909-11 White Borders (Piedmont & Sweet Caporal) Wagner, Pittsburgh #497 PSA 8			$2,800,000
2	1909-11 White Borders (Piedmont & Sweet Caporal) Wagner, Pittsburgh #497 SGC 40			$826,000
3	1914 Baltimore News Orioles Ruth, Pitcher #9 SGC 40			$517,000
4	1909-11 White Borders (Piedmont & Sweet Caporal) Wagner, Pittsburgh #497 GAI 3.5			$456,057
5	1909-11 White Borders (Piedmont & Sweet Caporal) Wagner, Pittsburgh #497 PSA 1			$399,500
6	1909-11 White Borders (Piedmont & Sweet Caporal) Doyle, N.Y. Nat'L #147 SGC 50			$329,000
7	1909-11 White Borders (Piedmont & Sweet Caporal) Wagner, Pittsburgh #497 BVG 1			$317,250
8	1909-11 White Borders (Piedmont & Sweet Caporal) Wagner, Pittsburgh #497 PSA 2			$294,338

Easy Ebay Search

eBay had all kinds of great items. Just go to eBay and search for 1909 Pirates and see all the neat things that come up. My favorite right now is the Opening day pin from Forbes Field.

That is not the only place that you might find 1909 Pirates memorabilia. There are many auctions out there. Check out some of these also:

http://www.huntauctions.com/

http://www.hugginsandscott.com/

http://auction.steinersports.com/

http://www.goodwinandco.com/

http://www.baseball-cards.com/

There are literally thousands out there. Old Cardboard Magazine has a great website with many of the prominent auctions listed.

Ham Hyatt

I am currently working on a checklist of Robert "Ham" Hyatt baseball cards. He played various postions during his career. The legand is that he could hit good but not field so well, hence the name "Ham" or "Ham Handed". Either way he was a contributer to the Pirates 1909 season and victory in the World Series. This is what I have so far:

1903-11 W600 Sporting Life Cabinets
1910 E286 Ju Ju Drum Candy Chips
1910 E90-2 American Caramel
1910 D322 Ward-Mackey Co. Tip-Top Bread
1910-11 M116 Sporting Life
1910 E104-2 Blanke-Wenneker Candy
1911 T5 Pinkerton Tobacco Co. Cabinets
1912 T207 American Tobacco Co. Brown
1913 Pirates Voskamps
1914 B18 Egyptienne Straights
1921 PD3-1 Bastian Bros. Co
1921 E137-7 Collins-McCarthy Co. Zeenuts
1922 E137-8 Collins-McCarthy Co. Zeenuts
1972 Classic Cards

Honus Wagner was by far the best baseball player of all time. He could hit, field, and run the base paths better than most that have ever play. No one could put them all together like he could. Oh and he was a champion.