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I like it, Marc! Can’t go wrong with Giants! :D

Great solution, given the lack of wall space, Marc...

Really nice to have the ability to rotate them, to keep those displays fresh.

Looks terrific!

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Originally Posted by bocca001 (Post 1971447)

I've been trying to get pennants out on display and of my closet, but have limited wall space. I decided to buy some 36 inch acrylic book shelves so that I could both store and display pennants at the same time.

I think I got about 18 on the shelf and can easily rotate them to have something different at the front.

It maybe isn't a 100% perfect solution, but I'm happy with it.

Marc, very cool! Someone had the idea of using pants hangers to hang/display, I may do that with the ones for which I don’t have wall space.

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Originally Posted by thetahat (Post 1970903)

“Bobfreedman” was kind enough to find this picture from the Occidental Hotel, October 1924 dinner to celebrate the Senators’ WS win. Hard to see the pennants on display but these are all the same, and one is also pictured below. Now this was in a Legendary catalog when a fancier version of this pennant fetched a mint (everything same except there was a Walter J. graphic inside the baseball and the laces in the ball ran vertical.

I don't know of any other '24 Senators pennants, does anyone else?

As a side note, does anyone recall the similarity between this and a 1925 Pirates pennant?

That photo of the 1924 banquet is in the program for the 1925 banquet, also held at the Occidental Hotel in D.C. The WaJo version in Legendary and the one pictured with the blank baseball (yours?) are the only copies of each I've ever seen. I'm guessing the ones on the wall of the restaurant are the only ones of that style that were produced, and who knows about the origins of the WaJo example? It's hard to believe that if either of them had been sold inside or outside the ballpark at the four games of the series in D.C., only one survivor of each would be known today. Who would have thrown theirs away after the Nationals' glorious victory?

These are currently on a wall in a closet waiting for me to figure out where I can squeeze them in to be displayed.

If you haven’t seen the Cuban pennant in the April pickups thread, check it out.

Here's a few more from the 1950s....

1. Walter Alston hired as new manager, November 24, 1953.
2. Ebbets Field sold to real estate developer, 1956 (note the same wind-tattered "BROOKLYN" flag flying outside the facade).
3. Walter O'Malley campaigning for Proposition "B" and new stadium proposal at Chavez Ravine, June 1958 (with pennant topping diagram).
4. Close-up of pennant depicting Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, as seen in the above photo. Another holy grail of sorts....

Were any other teams represented with the “Play Ball” other than the Cubs? This White Sox pennant has the same batter, but no wording.

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Originally Posted by MK (Post 1972082)

Were any other teams represented with the “Play Ball” other than the Cubs? This White Sox pennant has the same batter, but no wording.

The Yankees used that image in 1942, and the Cubs utilized a slightly different variation of it as well (with gothic font...)