November Pick-Ups
 

I was very pleased to add this to my Mantle and Hornsby box/glove collection:

First bat I've bought.

Cant wait for this one to arrive...

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Beautiful Koufax!

Today's flea market find
1909 Illustrated Sunday Magazine Milwaukee Brewers. They measure 14" x 10"

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Here's what a complete copy of the magazine looks like.
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1949 Jackie Robinson Barnstorming Tour Program

Just received this albumen photo from England. I assume it is soccer, but no cleats on shoes and the hats don't make much sense.

The hats were part of the uniform, though not used during play. The knit stocking cap was common as was the cricket style cap.

As for the boots - from a site on the history of football boots:

Players would wear their hard, leather work boots, which were long laced and steel toe-capped as the first football boots. These football boots would also have metal studs or tacks hammered into them to increase ground grip and stability.

As laws become integrated into the game in the late 1800’s, so saw the first shift in football boots to a slipper (or soccus) style shoe, with players of the same team starting to wear the same boots for the first time. Laws also allowed for studs, which had to be rounded. These leather studs, also known as cleats, were hammered into the early football boots, which for the first time moved away from the earlier favoured work boots.

Thanks. I have seen a lot of 1800's soccer team albumens, but never the stocking cap. Also could not find any examples googling 1800's British soccer team photos.

Hey John,

Love the Brewers newsprint photos... great find!!

Look for the image of the Royal Engineers AFC from 1872. Try history of British Football on wiki.

Those stocking caps don't look at all like the ones in my photo.

I think the image is a rugby team.
If you compare your photo with this British late-19th century Keens Mustard tin with Rugby scene... the uniforms look very similar, including the toques.

I hope this helps.



Brent

That was my first impression on this also except for the fact that the ball is on the floor and it looks like a football (soccer ball) and not a rugby football. The first ones to use a rubber bladder, made by Richard Lindon in the 1840's, were slightly oblong (buttonball).

Same thoughts here. I will post a close-up of the ball later - it appears to be round, but I will be interested to hear your opinions.

Thanks Brent and Michael. This is out of my sports wheelhouse, as I generally only collect baseball (anything old) or football action.

Picked up these programs in the Huggins & Scott auction. These are from the independent league team the Cranston Firesafes. Yogi Berra played there under a pseudonym "Casuno" while stationed in the northeast during WWII.

A few of my recent pickups. The Rent a Seat Cushion sign is from Cleveland Municipal Stadium.

I just added this 1971 Clemente pinback to my 71 Bucs collection. It is a very scare item and one of three I have ever seen in 40+ years of collecting. It has been a bit of a white whale for me. Although I'm certain I over paid, I'm thrilled to have finally landed it:D

Love it, Mike. Congrats! :)

With the White Whale in hand, you’re done, right? ;)

Thanks Scott and Rob. Rob I don't think my foolishness will come to an end anytime soon. I know there is a thread discussing these particular pinbacks. This one appears to be yet another variation as the placement of the autograph differs from the example of this pin Howard posted.

Mike:

Congrats on nailing that one down.... beautiful Pin.

I can't recall... did you also win the original Studio Photo used to make this Pin (which was in Hunt's Clemente Auction?) I believe one of the Members here won it.

If so, they would look amazing displayed together!

Any chance you have some 19th century Celtic Football Club pictures? Glasgow, Scotland soccer team. Would love to see them.

Thanks, unfortunately I didn't win the print in the Hunt auction. I believe one was sold a number of years ago in a Leland's auction as well.

Autograph placement varies on the Mays pins, as well. There is also one with no autograph.

Hunts Auction Winnings
 

This came from Cy Young's Estate

Awesome pick up Bob. I'd love to live in your collecting world for a day😎

Beautiful Bob!!!

Absolutely my favorite Red Sox Ruth pose, NOT Type 1 but happy with it nonetheless...

+1 Beautiful cigar box.
If I could afford one of these, I would love to have one in my collection

Just picked up this pretty beaten up program from the Jackie Robinson All-Stars 1949 tour. This is a program for a specific game, unlike the standard program which was generic for the tour. Anyone seen these before?

HOF Hoyt Wilhelm no-hitter ticket stub
 

I was fortunate to recently add this really nice ticket stub to HOF'er Hoyt Wilhelm's no-hitter against Don Larsen and the NY Yanks 1-0 on 9/20/58 @ Baltimore.
Hoyt Wilhelm is known as a knuckleballing relief specialist over his great career that spanned over 1000 games, but he actually started out as a starting pitcher.
Tickets to Wilhelm's no-hitter are very scarce. I know of only 3 that I am aware of in the hobby and I now own two of them.

Nice pickup Scott! Hoyt had his knuckleball working that day!

Congrats Scott how many no hit tickets do you own now?

Thanks Dewey and Mike!
Good question.
I now have tickets to 206 different no-hit games dating back to 1901.
296 no-hitter games have been pitched through 2017.
147 of my no-hit tickets are signed by 153 different pitchers as some no-hitters were combo no-hitters that involved more than one pitcher.
33 of the 206 no-hit tickets were to games pitched by HOF pitchers...

Here's one guy that has pitched two no-hitters so far.
Congrats on your World Series win with the Astros JV... :)

That's incredible!

Love the look of that Sisler bat. Even when they are retail models, those Bone Rubbed 250's are beauties. BTW do the weight and length match up to bats that he ordered?

Thanks Mark. This bat measures at 35 and weighs 36.5 - 37 ounces and is hand turned no inch marks on the knob.

Pretty jazzed to have won this 1930 Louisville Colonels Panoramic photo from the currently closing Hakes auction.....only pano on Louisville I've ever seen. Billy Herman's last year in the minors..........

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Picked up a Bob Feller old timers or coaches jersey.

Attachment 294997 Picked these up over the weekend. Don’t collect Cardinals or Dodgers but couldn’t beat the price.

Copper Cutout
 

Highly detailed copper cutout

Copper batter and catcher
 

This appears to be the image from one of the embossed postcards. Not sure of size etc, or if was used for them or made from them, but worth looking into.

Postcard size for sure! Thanks for the tip :)

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I believe that I won this Hakes but have not received an invoice yet?

Mike, awesome pick-up!

Nice
 

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Nice photo...interesting head gear...just saw one similiar Sunday at a flea...Good image, size, and original oak frame and wavy glass sort of had me...but saving for a show so didn't get it...didn't hit the "gotta have it" level...sorry for reflection glare...should have taken more time for better shots...the huge rugby ball was the best part...in hind site...may grab it if gal still has it next time if I see her...

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1931 Houston Buffalos With Dean and Medwick
 

Picked up this panoramic photo of the 1931 Houston Buffalos that has need torn in half. In the photo are Jerome Dizzy Dean and Joe Ducky Keswick. Living one town over from Medwicks home town I am happy to have it in my collection.

You just reminded me that I should pick up an 1800's frame to put the photo in.

I was surfing Astros stuff on ebay during the World Series when I spotted the following item - a program from the first game I ever went to, even scored (Marichal threw a complete extra-inning game). What are the odds? Marichal threw 25 complete games that year, 3 were extra innings. This one went 11 but the scorer gave up after 10.

Not worth a lot of money but I really liked the way this newspaper looks with Cy Young from 1904.

Just won some bunting from the World Series games played in Houston. This was similar to buying furniture for a room, as I felt it was necessary for my man-cave and would rather have this on the wall than any piece of furniture I can think of. How's that for rationalizing? I further rationalized that I needed two of them...

Awesome! I always liked how the Astros programs featured the visiting teams as well.

Another trinket but I couldn't resist this Spring Training snap shot of Murtaugh:D

Love it!! It's funny how we "rationalize" our purchases in this hobby!:D

1895 Hughie Jennings mounted photo
 

Picked this up last night

Brad

I was hoping that Jennings would stay cheap so my opening bid would hold up, but glad you won it, its one of his best photos I have ever seen and was a good deal. The stuff I really want ends tonight so now I have some extra money to work with!

Congrats

Rhys

Thanks Rhys,

I thought it was going to go for actually quite a bit more than it did. But I was like I'll toss out one more bid and then go to bed and ended up surprised that it held. lol.

I'm interested in seeing it since the photo is mounted on board in seems like its almost postcard size. I'm not a huge collector of 19th century stuff but when things pop up that seem interesting I'll pull the trigger. So now I have this and my 1885 Chicago White Stockings imperial cabinet.

Good luck with your stuff tonight.

Take care,
Brad

Congrats Brad, that image of him is amazing.....

Thanks Greg!

Nice pickup Michael
 

Nice pickup Michael.

Looks like your cooper item was used to create 1906 PC792 Embossed "Batter & Catcher" Baseball Postcard.

Patrick

Thanks so much for the match up of that postcard!!:) Can you guess the next item on my want list? ;)

Scott, great collection! I was wondering, since so many of the teams don't print tickets for their season ticket holders, is it more difficult to find no-hitter tickets for games pitched recently than for games pitched in the good old days?

Rick

Thanks Rick!
There is no doubt that teams no-longer printing tickets is going to make collecting my theme extremely challenging moving forward. It's really sad because it eventually will lead to the death of collecting a theme like this.
When this happens I've come to the conclusion that I will have to focus my collecting to only vintage tickets.

Re; your question, each scenario has its own unique set of challenges.

In the good old days, fans didn't frequently save their tickets because they were often viewed as yesterday's trash and were tossed. To add to this, WWII saw paper items of all types disappear due to the war effort. Finding vintage tickets is a bit like finding a needle in a haystack (as I know you're aware of) since you collect Koufax tickets. For this reason I believe that vintage tickets will always have value because of limited supply and increasing demand.
The amount of baseball ticket collectors in the hobby has increased dramatically since 1998 and vintage tickets, like other memorabilia, still rules the roost IMHO.

Modern cardboard season tickets are infrequently actually being used by many seat holders due to e-tickets, leading to a prevalence of perfect mint tickets that are not torn like their earlier predecessors. This makes for easier collecting, but reduced potential for ever becoming a collectable that increases in value.

Even though this may be a crazy analogy, I actually see collecting vintage tickets to be a bit like collecting antique milk bottles. Eventually neither may exist, but there will still be collectors because of the novelty of them being reminiscent of a bygone era...

I asked my wife, "Who holds onto hotel soap from 70 years ago?" Her answer was "hoarders."

The Giants owned this place and conducted Spring Training there in the 40s and 50s.

Rob,
Is your wife calling you a hoarder now that you own the 70 year old Giants soap? :p

We are all pathetic hoarders to some degree.

Yes we are!

Agreed! Just ask my wife.

Brad, that Hughie is an absolute STUNNER. I DEFINITEY wanna paint that someday. Wonderful pick-up.

What are you going to do with all those 1971 ticket stubs?

I need you to come over for dinner one night so I can show off my new man-cave furnishings.

Not many people will recognize his name, but for those that do will appreciate it. I recently acquired this 1930s Oscar George "Ox" Eckhardt Hillerich & Bradsby game used bat. Very heavy use shown with countless ball marks, stitch marks, and slight dead wood suggesting this gamer was deployed for full service!

Eckhardt holds the all-time professional baseball record for batting average, counting both major and minor league stats. Eckhardt .367 career batting average ends up fractionally ahead of #2 Ty Cobb, who’s career .366 is lowered marginally by his minor league stats.

I don't recognize the name but that sure is a great bat. Excellent game use evident, as you point out. Congrats.

A new addition to my Olympic baseball collection. I've reached out to Mercersburg Academy to see if they can provide any information.

That fact is a tremendous thing to know, and the bat is a superb piece, too. Is it part of a theme of your collection? Such as players whose stats surpass Cobb's stats in one category? Minor league pheenoms?

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Added this pin to my Tiger collection

Scorecard
 

The look appeals to me for what I like to collect

I picked up a ticket stub and scored program from Joe DiMaggio's final multi-HR game on July 29, 1951. The Yankee Clipper hit 2 HR's in Game 1 of the doubleheader.

I've always wondered what Ruth was thinking in that photo.

Lar Lou in your living room -Type 1 photo
 

The clarity is outstanding for an 8x10 action shot and Gehrig is large.
Used for numerous pieces of memorabilia.

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very cool...

Thank you Leon. And purchased from a fellow board member no less. Net54 rules:)