January Pick Ups
 

I couldn't resist the opportunity to have the first pick up thread of the new year:D Last year I picked up a fairly extensive collection of amateur slides of the 1971 Bucs season to include the World Series. Over the last couple of months I have been slowly picking up a number of professionally shot slides of the 1971 Series. Today I received the last of them. The first slide is actually the Bucs celebrating the 1971 Pennant after defeating the Giants in Game 4 of the NLCS. The shots of Clemente crossing the plate were taken following his Game 7 Homer in Baltimore. I think its always cool to see previously unpublished images of famous events in baseball history. For obvious reasons these make me very happy.

Absolutely gorgeous, Mike. Congrats on starting 2018 on the right foot!

Wow, Mike- great photos for your Bucco collection!
Congrats & Happy New Year to you and everyone on net54.

Great stuff there Mike! Way to start out the new year!!

Great pics Mike. I love Al Oliver's jacket with his nickname Scoop on the back!

Awesome photos. The Sanguillen swinging photo is my favorite. I also love the "Scoops" Oliver jacket.

Thanks for the kind words everyone. The Scoop jacket is so 1971 Pirates. If you look closely at the first photo you can see Dock's No-No jacket in the middle of the group. These guys were such a smooth and diverse team they were the very epitome of cool for the 9 year-old version of me. They were baseball's version hip hop before there was such a thing.;)

Awesome Mike!!

Adding my congratulations Mike. Very cool to have these unique items relating to your favorite team.

Marc (bocca001) was nice enough to give me this in a somewhat lopsided trade. The SF Giants played an annual exhibition game against the Santa Clara Broncos from 1963-1974. I am now missing only the 1963 and 1973 scorecards. Thanks, Marc!

Mike,

These are very neat slides even though we were on the losing side of the Series. I like them all, but my favorite slide is the Davey shot; very cool!

Pickups
 

I was glad to help fill a gap in Rob's collection and happy to get this nice Giants vs. Santa Clara University baseball ticket for my modest SCU baseball display.

Also picked up this NY Giants pennant from Erik C. I figured that I could pretend that it was an SF Giants pennant given that it doesn't actually say New York on it.

Good stuff guys:)

I continue to be amazed at the stuff just sitting out there waiting to be found. I mean this piece was found a few months by a homeowner under his house:eek:

and YOU got it??? :eek:

Mike
Outstanding acquisition, from a collector's standpoint and from a fan's. I especially like the slide of Clemente following through on a swing. It's not only beautiful in its own right, but it shows Stargell kneeling in the background. It reminds me of how reassuring it felt to see Clemente in the box and Stargell on deck. Congratulations!

Thanks Mark(s) and Michael that sign.... speechless. That is one hell of a pick up kudos to you. You must be thrilled. That's a story we need to hear. Please share the details and congratulations!

1941 Bob Feller "Clovergram" Newsletter
 

Neat Bob Feller item that was just too interesting and odd to pass up!

Pictured is a 1941 "Clovergram" newsletter published by Clover Farm Stores, advertising their upcoming annual convention slated for Oct 1941. Special guests included Bob Feller, who was to be interviewed by Ed Bang, presumably in front of all the attendees.

Measures about 8-1/2" x 13" and is in overall VG-EX condition.

This was part of a 50 Clovergram newsletter lot, all from 1941. If anyone is interested in the other 49 NON-Baseball newsletters, let me know!

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Just picked up this mid 90s Trevor Hoffman GU bat. Not many out there. Hopefully I'll get it signed this year in Cooperstown.

Great pickup Ron, good luck with the autograph.

Ron if you are not wearing a Hoffman jersey out there which many will have wear this if you want to stand out to Trevor.....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffKW-RLA9D8

Thank you Bill.

Paul, I am going to have to get one of those shirts for Cooperstown. Good call on the shirt!

Thanks guys on the Old Gold Ruth piece. So this piece came from a guy in Portland Oregon who found it in the crawl space under his house. The piece was missing the right panel which I knew would be an easy project for Tom (Art of Restoration)

Sweet Hoffman bat!

Mike

Now if I could just now find the four other copper plates to complete the set.:D I posted this copper plate last month hoping to find the matching postcard. I found the set this month:)

Mini pennants
 

Hi does have any clues about these mini pennants

From ebay, a spectacular 1928 Yankees-Cardinals World Series Scorecard!

Beautiful scorecard!

Old Gold is a fitting name for that Ruth ad, it's spectacular.

Thanks Jeff

Tober baseballs
 

I picked up this box of a dozen NOS 1950's Tober Pony League baseballs. I love the graphics on the boxes.

Great graphics!

Beautiful Pick-ups
 

Great month for all

Awesome PONY Leaguers baseballs !!
 

Any idea what specific year from the 1950's ???

Incredible Bob.

I've always loved those embossed postcards. The copper plate used to make the batter \ catcher one is very cool.

vintage 1950's dodger bum doll
 

Just picked this up off etsy, it is a early 1950's brooklyn dodgers bum doll with the #4 on the back. I also picked up a autographed bat with Frank howard. More great things for my dodgers collection.

From The Mattingly Charities event earlier this month. Game worn June 17th and 18th, 2017, versus the Braves. Marlins lost both games.

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Love that Mattingly jersey!

Mike

What happened to this? I was going to look at it closer when I got home as it was a ruth item I had never seen. Is this a movie poster?

1927 Ruth Poster
 

I am adding it back, it originates from the Halper sale (Lot 617)

Very cool

Glass Slide Projector and Slide
 

A little before the time of being able to throw in a DVD or stream a game live from MLB. While these glass slide projectors and slides are not all that rare, finding slides with major league baseball content is sort of tough.

Dave Grob

It's what is known as a window card. These would be placed around town to promote either the current or upcoming offering at the local movie theater.

The most common size is 14x22 though there are less common mini window cards at 8x14 and jumbo window cards at 22x28 (same size as a half sheet). The window cards were generally on a cardboard stock and often had writing on the top, which was a blank space used by the theater to promote dates and times of the showing.

That is pretty cool Dave. Nice pick up

Love that Ruth movie poster Bob!

Very cool item Dave.

Mike

Last evening I had the chance to meet Bucky Dent at an area Banquet and had him sign some things from my collection...

A Visiting Player hand painted locker nameplate from County Stadium in Milwaukee (from his White Sox days):

https://i.imgur.com/9clNdWt.jpg

The program from his infamous HR game in Boston (he suggested the inscription):

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and a 1978 World Series ball:

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Those are awesome pieces. Bucky has been so nice anytime I've ever met him and I remember that game as if it was yesterday.

Mike

Happy to have picked up this 1904 Boston Americans program/scorecard from the game played in Boston on July 16, 1904. Cy Young pitched for Boston and got the win. Addie Joss for Cleveland. Interesting 3rd Base/Nuf Ced McGreevey ad on the front. Has a nice Boston team composite and Carl Horner ad.

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Couple new Iowa items arrived today.
 

Excited to have these arrive today.

'61 season pass - only missed one game, #60. What a great summer that would have been.

Congrats Andrew, I was watching that one. Great piece!

+1 :):cool:

Thanks Jeff and Scott. I probably overpaid like usual, but happy to have it. Fits well in my collection.

Andrew you never overpay when you love something! You only say to yourself later if you didnt win it Damn I should have gone a little higher!;);) Nice piece! Enjoy it!

Al, you are absolutely right! I think most of us have lost out on something and then thought that immediately afterward!

Picked up a super rare William Read and sons scorer to go with my salesman sample baseball. Very difficult company to find anything that they produced

Here are some better photos

Very, very cool Kevin. Congrats!! :D

1986 Mets game used jersey worn by Pitcher Bruce Berenyi

Tom, this is the 14" x 22" version and as far as I know, the only on known

I can imagine. I have never seen one before this one and I have been a part time dealer in movie paper on and off for almost 30 years.

The scarcity of the other sizes is for all movies in general. 14x22 is the standard size for a window card. Some movies might have also had the mini version or the giant version, but like I said, I haven't seen another window card of any size for this title.

Does it have restoration?

Tom, It has two very small areas that look to have had some restoration done to it. One is in the middle on the right hand side that is about 2" long and the other is in the bottom right hand corner that is hard to tell if it is a repair or tape residue. I have a very nice black light and that is all I can ascertain from shining the flashlight on it. I was able to look at the back by having it re-framed recently. I should have taken some photos of the back when I had it opened.

I guess you could have for future sale purposes but knowing you that won't be going anywhere anytime soon. Sounds like it doesn't have much restoration which is really nice. I mean....with a piece that scarce restoration doesn't mean a whole lot but there would likely be some who would be off put by it having a ton of work done.on it.

Picked up this Craig Biggio Gamer.

Here is my Adirondack bat rack. After a few years in the basement, it was finally rigged up so that I could put some of my bats.

Nice rack! :p

Proof
 

Tom, this proves exactly what you were saying. A good friend sent me this picture that shows the artwork and the top left open for the movie Theater to advertise etc...

Harvard Basketball
 

Dave (seattlerainiers) gifted this awesome circa 1982 Willie Stargell snap shot. Thanks again Dave that was very kind of you. Today I picked up this 1971 Orioles World Series button. I already have one. However, they seldom appear for sale so I couldn't resist picking it up. If there any interested Oriole collectors out there I would likely be willing to trade for a similar Pirate I need. If not I am pleased to have two of these:) Sometimes it's the little things that make me the happiest. Edited to add the pin just found a new home.

What an awesome photo to have!

Here are examples of both from my favorite movie of all time:



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Not my posters unfortunately.

A couple of small items
 

The bottle id a Tappan Avon bottle (it is my second one), my other has the label and the other piece is an eBay find (a Boston Garter Store Display).

Vandy goes yard!
 

Here is a Reds scorecard that I just picked up from 6/12/48 @ Reds.
It's neatly scored and a definite must for my advanced Vandy collection.

In the 1st game of a twinbill, Johnny "Double No-Hit" Vander Meer homers for the 1st and only time in his career that spanned the better part of 14 years in the bigs. He must have accidently ran into one... :D

Vandy also got the win against the visiting Boston Braves 3-1, his 115th career win out of 119.

Picked these up this weekend. Looks to be all original row of 3 seats from the old Yankee Stadium. Seats have some sea foam green popping thru, only real negative besides some wood chipping is one chair has a broken leg.

Some Yankee photos
 

Had not seen these before Benough, Carlyle, Nunamaker

Breaking barriers again. Jack becomes first black executive of a major tv network. NBC New York 1952. Offseason gig would last until 1954. He regretfully resigned after NBC offered opportunities with only limited responsibilities.

17 inch tall Babe Ruth

I am loving the Yankees pick ups I'm seeing. Love, love those Yankee Stadium seats.

Mike

Carter Hoffman figures
 

I was just able to snag some Carter Hoffman figures. I got all the ones pictured except for the Columbia Lion.

The crown jewel is the Dartmouth Indian. It is a very rare jumbo sized piece that I have never seen before. Does anyone else collect these things?

Those are great! Especially the Dartmouth Indian.... brilliant Mascot!

I do love them, but don't collect them. Inside the Park offers a good selection of these via the auction route, and also at the National.

Cool pickups!

Picked up some lumber the last two months. Very excited about the Oliva in particular.

Due to condition, I picked this up for dirt cheap. ca. 1954. I had to make a repair to the bottom left. It's not as noticeable in person.