Although not in the HOF. Elroy Face is considered to be The Godfather of the modern closer. I picked up this stub earlier this evening. Its Face’s 18th victory of his record setting 1959 season. It was also his 22nd consecutive win which is the second longest winning streak in MLB history behind Hubble’s 24. That season his 18-1 record set the still-standing major league record for winning percentage (.947). His 18 wins that year also set the single-season wins in relief record.

Nice one, Mike! ;):cool:

Very nice ticket Mike, Elroy was the all-time N.L career save leader from 1962 to 1982 when Bruce Sutter passed him, Elroy ended his career With the brand new Montreal Expos in 1969 with 193 career saves, here is the ticket to his last career save #193

Beautiful ticket Guy. I love the color and graphics on those vintage Expos tickets.

June 25th 1988 ticket between the Orioles & Red Sox is iconic for a couple reasons...

One being it was the game 1,000 in Cal Ripken Jr.'s consecutive game streak.

The other being the day that the infamous photo of Bill Ripken was taken (which appeared in the Fleer set the next year):

https://i.imgur.com/KzVHRG3.jpg

Rest In Peace Jeremy Giambi

Jeremy Giambi, what a tragedy. I met him in Phoenix during spring training he was funny, engaging, and living his best life, such a loss to his family and those that loved him.

Sept 29, 1962 Full Ticket, Warren Spahn defeats the Pirates. The win is the 327th of his career moving past Eddie Planks 326 win total making him the winningest left handed pitcher in baseball history. It’s a position he still holds with 363 career victories.

Very happy to add this historic homer stub, before it climbs higher in value. I vividly remember watching this game in disbelief.

Nice one Michael!


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Thanks Tom! I'm always inspired by the tickets you pick up.

Regarding the '88 WS Game 1 ticket, I can easily see this stub being one of the next ones to start getting up there in price, as more people appreciate the historic significance of Gibson's Home Run.

Not baseball, but I just got this one.

Picked this one up, and only for a few rubles.

While she ain't perfect, she shore is purty.

Who's says yah can't find hidden gems on Ebay?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrI7dVj90zs

....and only like 7 graded by PSA (I don't count proof tickets), compared to about 110 Ruth Called Shot tickets.

....and as Leo tells it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09BVTJD4STQ

If you want to see that show in it's entirety with Hank & Mickey:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abago5tYZdM


Giants came from 13-1/2 games back to tie it on the Final Day of the season, forcing a 3-game Playoff, in which the Giants won Game 1 and the Dodgers won Game 2.


......as Willie tells it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSiiGbHXyGM


Full Game Broadcast (different announcer):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el04GusE3Ts

....according to the announcer the entire '51 Yankees team were in attendance that day watching to see who their opponent would be in the World Series.


Another interesting tidbit:
"Aware of the infamous Fred Merkle blunder, Jackie Robinson was the only Dodger to remain on the field making sure Thompson touched all the bases."


Good Documentary on it and the Polo Grounds and Ebbets Field, some great footage, look for the memorabilia, programs, banners, etc.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHSdzb37uOg

Amazing pickup Paul congratulations!

Very nice, Paul. I have been looking at Mantle and Gehrig WS HR tickets, so found a few at reasonable price but most have ridiculous BIN.

Thanks Mike & Jamie....and yah got lucky, ticket was paper clipped inside of a program.

When I get a new ticket first thing I do is research the game, and it's crazy what you learn.

Like we all know this was the "Shot Heard 'Round the World", but I didn't know that was because our Servicemen stationed in Korea were listening to the game on the radio, as were those in other countries.

And that famous call by Russ Hodges was not the TV version. If you were watching the game on TV you heard Ernie Harwell's call of the game. If you were listening to the Dodgers radio call of it you were listening to Red Barber. And if you were listening to the Giants broadcast of it you heard that famous Russ Hodges call of it.

And that Giants radio broadcast was NOT being recorded and the famous call of it would have been lost in time if not for a Brooklyn guy who had to work that day and asked his mother to tape record it for him. So that was the only recorded call of it.

I also didn't know the lead up to it, the Giants being 13 back and then being 4-1/2 games back with 7 days to go, and the Giants had to win all 7 games, and had to beat Warren Spahn twice and Robin Roberts once in that final week, just to tie, and force the 3 game playoff. And being down 4-1 headed to the bottom of the 9th in the decisive game 3, season looking be over, to have come so close only to fall short........and then!

All of that (and more) explains how big that Home Run was.

And then hearing the entire '51 Yankees team (including the Mick) were in attendance that day at the Polo Grounds watching to see who their Series opponent would be. Hell, maybe I have Mantle's ticket here to the Shot Heard Round the World Game, it's a Box seat after all. Hey, I have a 1 in 34,000 chance that it was. : )

Ticket prices in Heritage were staggering. This segment of the hobby is certainly booming. Love the story & history within each stub. Really fun area to collect.

Here's a few recent pick ups...Jackie & Mantle Rookie Seasons...

Staggering ticket prices.
 

An example.

Unbelievable! David, do you still have yours?
It's a great time to be a seller! :D

Yes David, great example. You own one?

How about the Jackie Robinson debut???? :eek:

I do. and I paid less than 1/100 of that price.

Awesome stub!

You mean less than 1/100th?

Oops. Yes.

Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
 

https://www.collectorfocus.com/image...-29-harvard-29

The headline that never gets old in Boston.

I love that ticket. Took me a while to find one.


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Woot!

I can add to this thread now. I just picked up two tickets:

Frank Howards home run #33 against the Pirates and his first home run as a Senator #123 against the White Sox.

Unless I win the Lottery or get extremely lucky, I won't be getting his 9th home run ticket stub. Hank Aaron had to hit a home run in that game too and that ticket is a bit too far out of my range.

Cheers,

B. T.

Modern(ish) but apparently rare? Junior and Senior first game together.

Lots of nice tickets in this thread.

My current online auction ends tomorrow and I usually don't have much in tickets. However this one has a few including a 1959 World Series and a pair of signed 1988 Tom Browning Perfect game signed tickets.

www.brockelmanauctions.com

for those who might be interested. There are a few others as well.

Scott

Cool stuff, everyone!

Thought I posted this, but maybe didn't.

I don't have many impressive stubs left, but I do have about 300,000 season ticket sheets and stubs from the past decade for various college football, NFL, MLB and NBA teams. My most significant stub (that I am aware of) is an Angels v Mariners stub of Mike Trout's first game. I had 4 of them, sold off 3 for about $1100 each. Not bad considering the Angels season tickets that year were under $500/ea. Maybe the rest will be worth something in 40 years. LOL

Photographer's ticket for the Opening Ceremony of the 2022 Olympics. Along with collecting Olympic photography I also collect items related to the photographers, including credentials, vests, badges and patches. Unlike pro sports the photographers need tickets along with their credentials at the Olympics. This prevents too many photographers from attending events since their shooting areas are usually defined. The oldest photographer identified tickets I have and have seen are 1948 London. Prior to that there are press tickets or no defined tickets. Some of the games after 1948 did not have photo identified tickets. 1972 Munich and 1976 Innsbruck used press tickets. 1996 Atlanta used 'Accreditation Required' tickets.

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Joel Youngblood had a mostly undistinguished 14-year MLB career, though on August 4th 1982 he laid claim to one of the more quirky feats in baseball history.
On Aug. 4, 1982, Youngblood became the only player ever to get a hit for two teams, in two cities, on the same day.
Youngblood began the day as a member of the Mets, who played a day game against the Cubs at Wrigley Field in Chicago. In that game, Youngblood went 1-for-2 with two RBIs in a 7-4 Mets win. After the game, he was traded to the Expos, who played that night against the Phillies in Philadelphia. In that game, Youngblood singled as a pinch-hitter in the seventh inning of a 5-4 Phillies win. Two hits, for two teams, in two cities, on the same day.
That's impressive enough. But even more impressive is that both hits came off eventual Hall of Famers: Ferguson Jenkins in Chicago and Steve Carlton in Philadelphia.
Not a bad day at the office(s).

Cool! Nice one, Guy!

I’ve been looking for the Phillies Expos ticket for a while. Nice one.


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THAT is a fantastic display piece, and a great piece of trivia.

Two more programs added to my scored program want list, hahaha.

That's the kind of baseball history I love to collect. It would have been even cooler if he would have been on the winning side of both games.

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Sarno, remember this tix?

Late 1890's NY Giants
https://www.qualitycards.com/picture...groundstix.jpg

I do Jay! Did I buy it from you, or sell it to you? That was about 12 years ago.

Neither, I sold it for you.
Luckily I kept the scan

1915 Newark Peppers Opening Day ticket

Great Stub, Tom!

Jay, I remember now. Also glad you saved the scan, I like having images of former cards and ticket stubs, thanks! :)

Adam I love those Lakers tickets. You have quite a diverse collection.

Very nice especially the Chamberlain

I recently got this one backed signed by the author of “The Double” will be adding Junior to it next month.

Full 1973 ticket for Willie Mays Last hit (3293) and last RBI (1909). For what its worth there are no other stubs or full tickets on the PSA pop report for this date.

Vern Kennedy 1935 no-hitter ticket stub
 

I recently was fortunate to scratch another early vintage no-hitter ticket off of my want list.

Here is a ticket stub from CWS pitcher Vern Kennedy's August 31, 1935 no-hitter against the Cleveland Indians.
The White Sox prevailed 5-0 with Kennedy fanning 5 with 4 BB.
Additionally, Kennedy helped his own cause in this game hitting a triple w/ 3 RBI's.
Kennedy was a great overall athlete and had a career batting average of .244 over 12 years in the major leagues. Not bad for a pitcher!

Another pre-war toughee with a very small attendance of 5,000. It's also important to note that the majority of CWS tickets from this era were undated tickets.
This is the only example that I have ever seen or heard of entering the hobby as long as I have been collecting.
Luckily it's fully dated and in terrific shape for being 87 years old....

I now have tickets to 237 different no-hitter games dating back to 1901. :cool:

Awesome.

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Great one Scott!

Thanks Mark & Doug! :D

Scott, again great work !!

Continue on your journey

Thank you, sir! :D

A couple of nice ticket additions, Mike! :cool:

Just added to my Red collection a few weeks ago.
Cardinals retire #2.
Unfortunately couldn't find any pictures from that day.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...724d299f4e.jpg

Seriously? :eek:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/36377447602...rdt=true&rt=nc

That is nuts!!!!! It's good to be a seller these days.

Along the lines of WTF:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/23448659760...sAAOSwhjNiQEtT

That ticket is worth maybe 5 or 10 bucks.

Oh and if anyone has Harmon Killebrew's last check swing during an at bat I'm looking for that ticket.

Rob,
Condition issues aside, Willie Mays' 3,000th hit ticket is really tough to find.
And I know exactly why! ;)
One of my close friends attended Willie's 3,000th hit game.

The SF Giants offered to give every fan that attended the game a FREE ticket to any upcoming game... in exchange for their ticket to the game!
The Giants proceeded to throw all of these tickets away. :rolleyes:

The lure of getting something for free proved to be too much to resist for virtually all of the fans. Thus explains the scarcity of Willie's 3,000th hit tickets.

That being said, over $6,000 for this ticket with condition issue is cray cray!! :eek:

My buddy was also there….he, of course, opted for the exchange.

Well, looking at the seller, it doesn’t surprise me with the ridiculous price.

That Gidez32 seller is an Ass Clown.
His asking prices do nothing but create an eBay museum of insanity...:rolleyes:

Whatever do you mean Scott?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/23449394463...YAAOSwqqZiSkXq

Or he is an Ass of a Clown .... :)

Very nice

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Amazing the graphics and the diversity of the different ticket types

Very cool

Can't remember if I posted this before, but full ticket from first game of the Anaheim Piranhas Arena Football League from 1996.

A couple of ticket stubs to the Championship Wrestling Match held in St. Louis and a couple of ticket stubs to a Browns vs. Yankees game that I think may have been played as part of a double header on Sun. Sept 18. Or these stubs may be for something else because my research shows Browns not playing on Sept . 19 1932. Any Ideas?

Brad, looks like it was a schedule change according to Baseball Reference the game was moved from Sept 19 to Sept 18, maybe rain was expected for the 19th.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/t...e-scores.shtml

But to know exactly why you need to go to a newspaper from Sept 18/19 1932.

Thanks, I didn't see that schedule change the first time i looked at that.

Here's one that I recently added to the run of 1930-1980 World Series tickets that I'm building.

This was the deciding game for the Tigers first World Series victory.

My First Game
 

Here is my ticket stub from the first game I attended, August 27, 1965 at Shea Stadium in New York. The San Francisco Giants defeated the N. Y. Mets by a 9 to 2 score.

The Mets offence consisted of a 2 run home run by Charley Smith.

The Giants put on a show, hitting 5 homers! Willie Mays hit his 40th of the year, career number 493 tying him for 5th place on the all time list with Lou Gerhig. Willie McCovey hit 2 homers and Jim Ray Hart and Len Garielson added one each.

The winning pitcher? Warren Spahn, his next to last win, #362 of his career.

Quite a game for an 8 year old!

Mike

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My God! This grading/slabbing thing has gotten totally crazy!
That's a regular season game ticket--nothing special about it at all. And certainly nothing rare or valuable.
It probably cost more to have it slabbed and graded than it's worth.
Does everything have to be encased in plastic and bear the imprimatur of these self-proclaimed "experts in all things"?

Lol....it was purchased slabbed and re-holdered. Cost $10 to do that. Cost significantly more to buy. Ruth hit tickets are more expensive than you are assuming them to be. Because, you know, Ruth. And only but so many tickets have survived.

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Oh well, each to his own.

Paying more for a "Ruth hit" ticket!
And then, paying even more to slab and grade it!

I guess I've been at this too long. It's a whole new "collecting" world. As Bob Dylan wrote, "I can't stay in here, ain't it clear, that I just don't fit."

Just for the hell of it, though, here's my most prized ticket. One of these just sold in Heritage's February 26, 2022 auction for $108,000. Because, you know, Gehrig. You'll notice that mine's not slabbed.

This is Jerry West's last tournament NCAA college game in the NCAA tournament on 3/11/1960. West Virginia University (WVU) lost to NYU 82-81 in overtime 82-81. However, WVU played in a consolation game on 3/12/1960 and West played.

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