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I'd say there was a mistake somewhere along the way. Who knows, maybe the guy actually went to this game AND the later games where Dean pitched the no hitter...and maybe he wrote the note of the back of the wrong stubbs. Or maybe he bought them second hand and didn't know any better. It's impossible to know without the original collector being available. This is why it's important for all of us collectors to try and document our collections. Where we got them and any history behind them if available. You got a great Robinson auto so you should be pretty darn jazzed about that and some ticket stubbs from the Cards/Dodgers during a championship year from one of the most famous Cardinal teams of all time. Sounds like a pretty good haul to me.
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Counting home games herehttp://www.baseball-reference.com/te...e-scores.shtml
I come up with July 15, which was a Dizzy dean shutout during a sunday doubleheader. So a mistake over which double header it was seems likely. But there's the odd day off on Monday the 16th, followed by The cards again on the 17th and 18th. Any chance at all that there was a rainout earlier in the season pushing game 32 to the 16th which got rained out and replayed on the 21st? It seems unlikely considering the way ties and rainouts were handled at the time, but might be worth a bit of checking into. Really neat items either way. |
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Paul Dean no-hitter tickets?
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The evidence on the tickets isn't in your favor and I agree with all the rationale and research previously offered by posters. The thing that haunts me is that we (I include myself in this judgment) tend to apply modern standards to past practices.
September 1934...the depths of the Depression. The Dodgers drew only 434,000 fans that year (30,000 on Opening Day)...their lowest attendance since 1919 and almost 20% below the 1933 level. That's only 5,639 fans a game in a stadium with a 32,000 capacity. Just for added emphasis...their 1934 attendance was 60% below 1930! And leading up to this game...less than 1,000 Brooklynites attended the Pirates game on 9/18. The club had to be in dire financial straits and they had to be pinching pennies wherever they could. Could a frugal Brooklyn general manager have encouraged the use of leftover general admission tickets rather than buying new ones? Could he have certainly mandated conservative purchasing of future game tickets from printers? Could a desperate ticket window clerk have sold old tickets and pocketed the cash (no audit trail)? Could a friendly ticket-taker have looked the other way and let the bearers into the game? Pretty tough times... The club heavily promoted the upcoming Cardinals/Deans doubleheader. Apparently it worked. The New York Times reported attendance at the 9/21 game as 18,000...a huge number in the relative terms of that season. Perhaps they just ran out of general admission tickets! If the writing is truly contemporary, it's possible that these really are the no-hitter tickets....but unfortunately, you can't prove it. Still...as 1934 first year manager Casey Stengel would later say: "You gotta believe!" Last edited by Oldtix; 04-16-2010 at 04:59 PM. |
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One further point....the ticket stub numbers are not sequential. Hmmm....
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Paul Dean no-hitter tickets? Gosh Rick...
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I love the way you thought through this one. In the context of the backdrop of The Great Depression any of your scenarios could be possible. Very good food for thought! |
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It just dawned on me, even though it was written earlier that Sept 21st was highly advertised games as the Deans doubleheader, but that's when Paul Pitched the no hitter in the second game and Dizzy pitched a two hitter in the first...leading to Dizzy's famous quote: "If I'da known he was gonna throw one, I'da thrown one, too."
Like ol' Dizz used to say, "It ain't braggin' if you can back it up."
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