March Pick Ups
 

I bought this Walter Johnson 1908 postcard in the Legendary auction last night. I thought it was a special piece. I like the idea of the Big Train sitting down and writing a postcard to his friend after a win. It was only a few months into his second big league season. Signed Walter J.

http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m...psf959772d.jpg

Also from Legendary:

Leon, how do I make the picture bigger? It's big enough everywhere except when uploaded to here. Thanks.

I'm not sure who your host is but sometimes I'll double click the photo in Photobucket, which makes it larger, and I'll save the zoomed in photo rather than the original image.

when you upload through n54, you can choose the size of the image? don't quote me on that as i mostly just put the link on my photobucket.

Whitey Ford, Sandy Koufax balls
 

I picked these up in an auction off ebay:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Whitey-Ford-...vip=true&rt=nc

The coa is from Michael Brazil and Sports Stuff, I hope they are real.

I also picked up a nice Mike Schmidt with no coa.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/MIKE-SCHMIDT...vip=true&rt=nc

March Pickups
 

Picked this one up a few weeks back and got it back from the framer yesterday...

Cut piece of Paper signed by Mark Roth: The New York Scribe who was credited with naming the Yankees (first used in print in 1904 & later stuck in 1913)... Years later, Roth was hired as the Yanks travelling secretary by Jacob Ruppert and held the post into the Dimaggio years... I also read in a recently published Yankees book that Hotel Concierges would frequently mix up Roth & Ruth's room reservations while on the road... Mark often found his key leading him to a penthouse suite, which the Babe didn't seem to mind because he never slept!!!

I found the oddly shaped photo of the 1929 Yankees with Roth second in from the left on the second row (Gehrig has arm around Roth)

Far from a yankees fan, but happy to pick this one up given its baseball history

Picked this up from Mears
 

Very pleasantly surprised at the hammer price. :D

Signed by artist and subject, 23" x 29"

Picked this up from a board member. It has changed hands a few times in the last few months. I can assure you it won't be changing hands again for quite some time. I absolutely love it!

http://i967.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps3623d3e2.jpg

just curious, what was the result of the leland world's fair signed ruth? did psa/dna certify it?

Lelands refunded me and I bought the Walter instead. But only after a great exchange with Hank Thomas. I appreciate his help.

1929 Tigers

This beauty arrived this week.

Honest Abe

http://i867.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps979bd378.jpg

Got this in a trade from Paul, most likely going towards more 52 auto's or a 55 auto'd hodges/Jackie


http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j4...ps4f24d8da.jpg

Oh man killer Abe check!

Is that an imprint of a cross on the right side of the check?

That's how they use to "cancel" checks. They would cut that design through it. Kind of an X cross cut

Picked this one up from a fellow board member, it's in transit

http://i867.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps4f24b23c.jpg

http://i867.photobucket.com/albums/a...psf3d7e3a4.jpg

It is called a cut cancel. They can also be found on some stamps, mainly revenue and tax stamps from the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.

Thanks for the information. This forum never disappoints.

John, glad to share. I believe knowledge is to be shared. It helps everyone.

I also get to add a nice new find. It is not even for my personal collection as he is not an American and I only collect images of American Olympians. This signature is nice for my Olympic Autograph database. Probably the only exemplar collection of just Olympians.

This is Claes Johanson (1884-1949) - He won a gold medal in Greco-Roman Wrestling (middleweight) at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm and a gold medal in Greco-Roman Wrestling (light heavyweight) at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerpen. He also competed in 1924 in Paris, but did not medal at the age of 40.

Below his signature it reads: 'Olympiska Mastare 1920' - Olympic Champion 1920 and 'Goteborg, Sverige' - Goteborg, Sweden, the town he lived in.

Picked up my first Greenberg complete with the envelope he sent it back in. Thanks, Sean.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2.../greenberg.jpg

Thrilled with these for the WWII collection:
Chylak: was wounded in the Battle of the Bulge and earned a Purple Heart. (Had a severe eye injury; sometimes umpire jokes write themselves.)
Donatelli: fascinating story: was a POW in Germany, actually started his umpiring "career" there, umping games between the prisoners.


Also, acquired last month, what I feel is a total oddity and surely uncommon: Harold Arlin, who was the first broadcaster ever over the radio for a baseball game (and FB!)

Ken

This isn't worth nearly as much as some of the items you have all gotten, but I finally finished up a project to 100% completion that I have been working on for almost 3 years now. Signed by all 25 members of the Opening Day Roster in 2010 (Target Field's Inaugural Season) plus Manager Ron Gardenhire. I am not much of an in person grapher, so getting this done took some creativity, bartering, some help from forum members (patneshek.com) as well as Pat Neshek himself. Now to frame it....decisions, decisions.

http://i694.photobucket.com/albums/v...170457_576.jpg

SP - Scott Baker
SP - Francisco Liriano
SP - Carl Pavano
SP - Nick Blackburn
SP - Kevin Slowey

RP - Pat Neshek
RP - Jose Mijares
RP - Jon Rauch
RP - Matt Guerrier
RP - Jesse Crain
RP - Alex Burnett
RP - Brian Duensing

C - Joe Mauer
1B - Justin Morneau
2B - Orlando Hudson
3B - Nick Punto
SS - JJ Hardy
OF - Michael Cuddyer
OF - Denard Span
OF - Delmon Young
DH - Jason Kubel

B - Jim Thome
B - Brendan Harris
B - Alexi Casilla
B - Drew Butera

M - Ron Gardenhire

Looks great Cottnat! I just finished (I think) something similar myself...

Eric

Very nice, I think the projects look great, and I know there are some with a lot more impressive names, but I am pretty pumped to have mine done. With the current MLB structure that has players being easily traded, demoted, leaving via FA, retiring, etc. it makes it really difficult to nab all the guys before they end up on other teams. It was easier to get Joe Mauer/Justin Morneau than it was to get Brendan Harris/Alexi Casilla.

Cottnat/Rays & Mariners -

Great items. I will say that it is very tough to collect a full team, but to collect that full team on one specific item, that my friend is very very tough. Don't let the completion take away the joy you have with the piece....(some time the chase is the best part)!!

That is awesome. You live in Seattle I take it. Is it me, or did Felix sign on the edge of the base?

Yep, I'm in Seattle. Felix's auto is at the top right of the base. Not his best looking auto but its his. My wife and I were just down in Spring Training and I got the plate finished.

Thanks
Eric

Love those projects, guys. And some of those Twins players look like they really take pride in their signatures. Nice to see these days.

One of the nicest '10 OD signed photos of the Twins I've seen (surprisingly, there are quite a few). That's a really nice Mauer.

You can thank Harmon Killebrew for that. He would chew out players at twinsfest every year because the young guys had people waiting in their lines for an autograph only to get chicken scratch on their item. Look at early vs current autos of guys like Torii Hunter and Michael Cuddyer and you will see what I mean.

Yeah, I assumed so given that it's the Twins. I just don't like to being Harmon into EVERY comment I make. ;)

OK too give credit where credit is due....RIP #3. One of the few guys I have gotten in person who was actually a joy to be around.

I may have gotten it in hand in February, but I'm just getting around to posting. I hit a cheap BIN on ebay for a 1952 Yankees @ Senators scorecard with Mantle...price was something like $29.99.

One of the auction photos showed part of a pencil signature. I couldn't tell for sure at the time, but after I requested additional photos it turns out the scorecard is signed in pencil by Senators owner and 1946 Baseball HOF inductee, Clark Griffith.

Not too bad for less than $40.

(I'll add a photo this evening)

Eric

You arent the only hard up Mariners fan on here. I live and die with them every night during the season (mostly die) and I LOVE the plate. Even got Jack Z on there! Me and my boys are going to the last Spring game of the Season in Salt Lake City (where I played my college ball) and were going to see if we cant get some autographs. We went to one game last year and got John Jaso, Jason Vargas and Tom Wilhelmson to sign, all were VERY nice and polite which was refreshing to see!

Cool item!

Rhys

Do you actually live in the Seattle area? If so, I didn't realize that. If you are ever near downtown, please arrange some time to stop by.

Yea I am an Ms fan to and its brutal. I live in Milwaukee now, so I got my tickets to see them in a few weeks when they play the White Sox. I like to brag that I get to see them before all my Seattle Freinds due to them starting the season on the road.

Thanks Rhys! - My wife and I went to Phoenix for a week. 7 days and 7 games. That was a great time! I think just about all of the Mariners were very pleasant and signed autographs even took pictures with them.

The only guy that was kind of standoffish was Guti. He kind of stayed away from all the fans (at least while we were there).

Scott - We live Downtown!

Eric

Just got this today! Very happy to add this future Hall of Famer to my collection :)

http://vmedia.rivals.com/uploads/1080/1377900.jpg

Well...
 

Picked up these 6 that I'm excited about, been an amazing year so far with these and my Mantle signed rookie.

Scott

I was born and raised in Seattle until I was 12, then we moved away but the love of ALL Seattle sports teams was too well rooted to die. I live in Boise, Idaho now but we are close enough that Root Sports is standard with our Cable Package so I get to watch about 155 games a year and to my wife's dismay, I watch them all. We try and make it up once a year to see a game but this year with the Salt Lake Spring Game the trip is shorter (and my In-Laws live in Utah anyways).

My boys are all die-hard fans too which I love but sometimes I do feel bad for creating such fans in a traditionally bad team (I have an awesome video of my 6 year old crying his eyes out when Ichiro got traded to the YANKEES last year, our families mortal enemy). It teaches them about sticking with something though and SOMEDAY the Mariners will win a World Series and it will mean more to me and my kids than any one specific World Series will ever mean to a Yankees fan!

Rhys

This week I picked up a couple of old, white haired guys (might be wigs LOL):

http://i867.photobucket.com/albums/a...psefdb4537.jpg

http://i867.photobucket.com/albums/a...psd7ecc827.jpg

http://net54baseball.com/picture.php...ictureid=10427

Team Issued Postcard 1979

Nice framing Mike, I have a Jefferson/Madison and it occupies a prime space on my wall. I love those old Presidential land grants and have four of them in my collection - JQ Adams, Madison/Monroe, Jefferson/Madison and Andrew Jackson (first term, not the secretarial). And if you are a Jefferson collector you must visit Monticello, amazing place and you truly get a chance to appreciate the genius of the man.

#160 and #161
 

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps0d4844b1.jpg

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps1892dcf3.jpg

could you show the mantle signed rookie, i havent seen it?

Cochrane and Lajoie...
 

Two new additions to the Hall of Fame Collection....sitting strong on 184...

Here to go my friend, I believe it may be the ONLY Mantle signed full name on a card.

1927 Reds-Yankees plus Stengel Ball
 

Sorry to be a space hog, as I added this over in the memorabilia section, but here's my p/u.

Some great sigs on this ball. M.J. "Miller" Huggins, Jacob Ruppert, Casey Stengel, Wally Pipp, Carl Mays, etc.