May Pickups

[Westsiders]

Great pick ups guys!

Anyone here pick-up the Ruth Batrite in the REA auction last night?

[btcarfagno]

Originally Posted by Westsiders

Great pick ups guys!

Anyone here pick-up the Ruth Batrite in the REA auction last night?

That stayed low for a very long time. I was high bidder for quite a while, then people started to wake up on it and I bowed out.

Tom C

[Jim65]

Won this in MEARS last night, 1977 Felix Millan game used bat

[WillowGrove]

Originally Posted by Jim65

Won this in MEARS last night, 1977 Felix Millan game used bat

Great bat Jim. Felix was my favorite. Got to tell him in spring training about 10 years ago that I still hate Ed Ott for what he did. Felix laughed. Still looked like he could field and stoke a hit over second base.

Great pick up.

[GoCubsGo32]

Another snapper for my HOF snapshot collection

[JoeyFarino]

[Lordstan]

Nice Gary and Joey

[Jim65]

Originally Posted by WillowGrove

Great bat Jim. Felix was my favorite. Got to tell him in spring training about 10 years ago that I still hate Ed Ott for what he did. Felix laughed. Still looked like he could field and stoke a hit over second base.

Great pick up.

Thanks, he was one of my faves as well. I remember the Ed Ott bodyslam like it was yesterday.

[RobertC]

I'm starting to get a few ticket stubs. For now, I'm trying to get one Hank Aaron home run game ticket stub for all 23 years that he played. I'll probably eventually expand this to include milestone games. Thanks Randall (mcgwirecom) for helping me take care of several years at one time. Just noticed that the my label on the last stub says 1975, but it should be 1976.

[mcgwirecom]

You are welcome. Once the hook is set on ticket collecting you will want to try and get them all. LOL I started collecting in 1998 innocently enough. McGwire looked like he was gonna hit 60+ homeruns so I decided to buy up tickets near the end of the year so I'd have the game he broke the record. then he went on a tear and I had to buy all of September to be safe. So I was happy I had #62 and #70. But i had some others too so I decided to get #60-70. I did that and then I decided to get the whole season. Then I tried to get full tickets only. Pretty tough since they tore them back then. Once I was almost finished I decided to get all his homeruns. Its the thrill of the chase! Now I have about a dozen different themes I am chasing.

All McGwire HRs
All Thome HRs
All Dunn HRs (thought he would make it to 500 but he quit on me!)
All Harper HRs
All Trout HRs

All Henderson 1982 stolen bases
All McLain 1968 wins
All Carlton 1972 Wins
All Story HRs from this year (rookie record?)
All Randy Johnson 15 Ks or higher

500th HRs
300th wins
3000th Ks
4 HR games
3 HR games
Perfect Games

500 HR Club milestones (1st, 100th, etc)
2002 A's 20 game win streak
Immaculate Innings (9 pitches 3 Ks)
Last K of a 300+ K season

[Westsiders]

Originally Posted by btcarfagno

That stayed low for a very long time. I was high bidder for quite a while, then people started to wake up on it and I bowed out.

Tom C

Me too. I was the high bidder late into the night, then got outbid by the winning bid. Gave some serious thought to firing one more time at it, but just couldn't do it. My last bid was $6500, which made it $7800 with bp (much more than any Ruth Batrite has gone for). But a great bat indeed...congrats to the winner. Hoping I don't regret this one...

[khkco4bls]

Just picked this J F Hillerich 1902 Patent model off of eBay I've never seen one in nicer shape measures 34". Description said 33". perfect knob also.