Show Your Programs, Schedules and Scorecards

[jacksons]

Happy New Year, everyone!

Saw Jimmy's recent post. I think I read recently where Marshall Fogel spoke about collecting "horizontally". Spreading your interests, so to speak. It's hard to focus on that very one thing, when there are so MANY great options to choose from - pennants, print material, photographs, pins, etc.

For me, it's the early Yankees and a fascination with the Deadball Era. These were tough to pass up.

Yankee Stadium Opening Day, 1923

Sporting Life Schedules from 1904 - 1913.

[FourStrikes]

WOW, Jacksons - that's some great stuff - the Opening Day program is fantastic, and those schedules don't suck either!

here's a November 18, 1876 Harvard-Yale football scorecard ( first game of rivalry was played in 1875 ).

DS

[FourStrikes]

May 26, 1883 Harvard-Yale baseball scorecard (Yale 5, Harvard 1 )

I also have a few 19th Century Major League Baseball scorecards I will try to upload later.....

DS

[smokelessjoe]

This is the front and back of an 1894 Yale vs Princeton program... Its missing its insides.

[JLange]

1940s-50s Cleveland Indians scorebooks endorsed by Jimmy Dudley (Cleveland's play-by-play announcer) and one endorsed by Bob Feller

[thekingofclout]

You know, come to think of it...
most items in my collection I found while searching in a much more broader fashion. I just don't really use specific terms when searching for stuff. I know it sounds pretty goofy and if you're married I certainly don't endorse it, but it has served me well over the years, although it can be VERY time consuming.

Same with catalogs. I will go through them over and over until something catches my eye.

I write this cause I think this is a great thread and when I started to think about what is tops of my want list for the coming year now that I got the '51 Bobby Thomson Ticket Stub... I really couldn't come up with anything specifically.

So...anyone else collect in this fashion or am I the lone nut-job here?
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Originally Posted by jacksons

Happy New Year, everyone!

Saw Jimmy's recent post. I think I read recently where Marshall Fogel spoke about collecting "horizontally". Spreading your interests, so to speak. It's hard to focus on that very one thing, when there are so MANY great options to choose from - pennants, print material, photographs, pins, etc.

For me, it's the early Yankees and a fascination with the Deadball Era. These were tough to pass up.

Yankee Stadium Opening Day, 1923

Sporting Life Schedules from 1904 - 1913.

First off Jacksons. The items you posted are flat out tremendous! Absolutely superlative.

Regarding collecting themes, I tried about nine or ten years ago to put together a set. Now, one of my strengths as a man is I know what my weaknesses are. So I set out to putting together a 1968 Topps Baseball Card Game in high grade. I think it's only 33 cards that are not that tough to find in high grade although they do have some centering issues.

Anyway, after acquiring about half the set, I was bored out of my mind. Let me say that I have tremendous respect for all of you set builders out there. I admire your patience and determination. But I'm just not cut out for it.

Once I realized I could buy vintage photos of Babe & Lou for a small fraction of the price that their cards were fetching, I sold all of my card collection, about a hundred PSA 9 HOF players from the late fifties, the sixties and early seventies, and then started to focus almost entirely on vintage photos.

About that time a mutual friend had introduced me to Marshall as he knew Marshall was very passionate about photos and it didn't take long until I was completely emersed into collecting vintage photographs. One of the best tips Marshall ever gave me was to always keep an open mind when collecting.

Marshall is a real gem and very unique in his approach to collecting. First off, he put together the finest card collection in the hobby, which since has been bettered, and all the while he was also collecting pins, photos, advertising pieces, the finest game used bat collection extant, signed balls, pennants, game used uniforms and gloves, and some of the most fantastic odds & ends you'll ever see. And all the while never compromising quality.

So under his guidance, I started putting my collection together, with a decent but limited budget. For me, I love the fact that there will never be an end to what I collect, but my main focus is adding companion pieces for my photographs. This by far gives me the greatest pleasure.

There is something to be said for collecting things that can't be found in a monthly or even yearly price guide.

What Marshall taught me was the most simple lesson in the hobby... "Collect what you like in the best condition possible." Still the best advise you can ever get.

So Happy Collecting to all of my fellow board members and stick to your guns, no matter what others may say. I hope everyone gets the pleasure I get from collecting and also, the thrill of the hunt.

Sincerely, Jimmy

[Bumpus Jones]

Enjoy...

[baseballart]

World Tour program 1913-14


Max

[David Atkatz]

October 10, 1904 Chesbro's "Wild Pitch" (only example known):





1927 Yankees:



Ruth's "Called Shot":

[jacksons]

David - I have the very same 1927 scorecard - it's from an April game against Boston - great stuff and thanks for sharing!

[David Atkatz]

Originally Posted by jacksons

David - I have the very same 1927 scorecard - it's from an April game against Boston - great stuff and thanks for sharing!

Thanks for the compliment. But the regular-season scorecard cover is generic--there's no way of telling the game, or even the team played from the cover alone.

[jacksons]

Jimmy - well said. Thanks for your insight and input, as always.

I have many more items to share - I unfortunately have most of them already framed and matted archivally, hanging on walls in a dark room of my home.
My plan is to try scanning many of them through the UV glass - hopefully I can pull that off - we'll see. The material shared here on this board is tremendous - I would love to contribute more.

Always appreciate the quality of your posts, as well as the quality of your collection.

[jcmtiger]

Here are a couple of Detroit Programs. 1911, 1913, 1914, 1916.

Joe

[sicollector1954]

Here is a 1905 Boston schedule for two teams. Amazing how this little pocket sized item is put together in such great detail! Not something I readily collect-- but just an all around great baseball collectible.

1926 Portland Eskimoes, 1928 Portland Mariners, 1946 Fall River Indians,
1947 Providence Chiefs, 1947 Portland Pilots, 1948 Lynn Red Sox, 1981 Maine Baseball HOF, 1989 Maine Baseball HOF

[Kodi]

Of course, it's Canadian, so that might not be of too much interest to many of you!

[jb217676]

Kodi, you are not the only Canadian on the boards. We're EVERYWHERE! Cool program BTW!

[Ladder7]

Amazing collections here. Especially the old Beantown stuff.

Kodi, I found a photo from that season,

[baseballart]

Originally Posted by Kodi

Of course, it's Canadian, so that might not be of too much interest to many of you!

I'll play. Here's a 1933 Toronto Senior Amateur Program



Max

[Kodi]

Nice program, Max!

Did you notice how detailed the times etc. are on the piece? We take great care to make things easy for people, (besides always being polite!).

[68Hawk]

1871 Peck and Snyder Mutuals vs Athletics scorecard.

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