March Pickups

[JoeyFarino]

[pherbener]

Nice Joey!

[ruth-gehrig]

1880s Harvard vs. Yale

[Scott Garner]

I recently picked up some terrific tickets and scorebooks to HOF Sandy Koufax's major milestone strikeout games. They really are an ideal fit to my collection related to power pitching.

These all came from the personal collection of long-time Koufax collector and close hobby friend Phil Paul. After 30 years of collecting, Phil has decided to part with some of his favorite items related to Sandy Koufax's career. He is a regular contributor on net54 and goes by koufax1fan. If you don't know Phil, he is truly one of the great guys in the hobby.

Consider reaching out to Phil directly as he still has more excellent items related to the great Sandy Koufax's career.

A few of the items that I would like to share are:

A full, unused ticket to Sandy Koufax's NL leading single-season strikeout record of 382 K's. Only one pitcher ever got more strikeouts in the Modern Era and that was the great Nolan Ryan when he broke Sandy's record in 1973 with 383 K's. I've never seen another full ticket to Sandy's 382 K game, which ironically was also the 2nd to last game of the Milwaukee Braves franchise before becoming the Atlanta Braves in 1966.

A nice ticket stub to Sandy's single game K record of 18 K's on August 31, 1959 at LA, which at the time tied him with fellow HOF pitcher Bob Gibson for the ML record. This was the 1st of two times that Sandy recorded 18 K's in a game.

A beautifully scored program, ticket, official press notes and newspaper clippings from Sandy's 2nd 18 K game on April 24th, 1962 at Wrigley Field. Awesome mini-collection from the lucky fan that witnessed his gem!

[doug.goodman]

Fantastic stuff.

I'm jealous.

Taking a closer look at that program, I just realized that I have other Cubs scorecards scored by the same person.

Doug

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by doug.goodman

Fantastic stuff.

I'm jealous.

Taking a closer look at that program, I just realized that I have other Cubs scorecards scored by the same person.

Doug

Doug,
Wow, what a small world! You gotta love people that know how to score a game as nicely as this.
They really are things of beauty...

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

They really are things of beauty...

Yes they are.

[thecatspajamas]

Originally Posted by JoeyFarino

Nothing I love better than looking through the pick-ups thread and seeing all these pictures of kittens before the month's even through

(in my best Bob Barker voice) Remember folks, have your pets spayed or neutered.

[JLange]

Very happy to add this large Photo of the AL Champ Cleveland Indians, from the Oct 14 1920 NY Times Pictorial Magazine. The magazine is approximately 11x16, and the Tribe photo takes up a whole page. Unassuming issue with actress Ina Claire on the cover, but the insides have some great Chicago Blacksox and Cleveland Indians WS content.

This makes 2 pickups related to the 1920 WS in the last two weeks, my best streak by far! The other pickup can be found here:

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=236495

The magazine is intact, but the pages are loose, so I was able to open to this photo and fold the remaining pages back behind it without further damage.

That's just a shadow in the bottom of the photo.

[JoeyFarino]

Originally Posted by thecatspajamas

Nothing I love better than looking through the pick-ups thread and seeing all these pictures of kittens before the month's even through

(in my best Bob Barker voice) Remember folks, have your pets spayed or neutered.

Hey cats need love to!

[pherbener]

Just got a few tickets left on my back deck by Mr. Postman

1956 World Series Game 5 Don Larsen perfect game Signed. by Paul Herbener, on Flickr

1977 World Series game 6 Reggie Jackson 3 HR's signed. by Paul Herbener, on Flickr

1975 World Series game 6 Fisk Home Run. by Paul Herbener, on Flickr

[Duluth Eskimo]

Paul,
I really like that Reggie Jackson ticket

[btcarfagno]

Originally Posted by Duluth Eskimo

Paul,
I really like that Reggie Jackson ticket

The whole concept of a player autographing a ticket to a special game is just so cool to me. The idea of collecting the ticket itself is neat enough, but then to add the player's autograph...something about it I just love.

Tom C

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by btcarfagno

The whole concept of a player autographing a ticket to a special game is just so cool to me. The idea of collecting the ticket itself is neat enough, but then to add the player's autograph...something about it I just love.

Tom C

Me too!