You, no doubt, have the biggest Santa Clara pennant collection in existence! :p

Very nice! Love the San Jose pennants especially. Back in ‘09 my college team (I was asst coach, not player) opened the season at SJSU, we played a DH with the first game on campus and then walked over to the minor league ballpark for the nightcap. Cool old field!

Thanks, guys. I've been collecting Santa Clara pennants for a long time. It's rare to see an old one come up these days. I did get a great one from Kyle a few months ago.

Greg- about San Jose, it's cool that you got to coach a game at that stadium. You should track down the Sports Illustrated story about the "Bad News Bees", describing the teams from the mid 1980s made up of former MLB players with drug problems (e.g., Steve Howe). I try to catch an SJ Giants game there every summer. The Santa Clara Padres also played games there during their one season of existence. It was a strange team with colors of red, green, and white to hopefully help them catch on with Italian, Portuguese, and Latino fans in the area (i.e., flag colors). It didn't work. But MLB manager Joe Maddon played on that team.

Rob- what's up with this NY Giants pennant below? I don't recall ever seeing it before and it seems unlike most other baseball pennants. I like it.

Got it on eBay, years ago. It came from Venezuela. The guy had like 10 teams. Prices realized ranged from $10 to $100+.

I will look it up! In fact I think Ken Reitz played for that Bees team, if memory serves me.

I mis-read your previous post, Marc. Here's the red version, but I don't own it.

Thanks for posting that, Rob. This version (red or blue) with both the Yankees and Giants seems to up less often than the Giants versions (orange or black). I wonder if they are all just housed in Yankees collections?

I simply think that very few of that pennant were ever made (as opposed to being stashed away in Yankee collections). It was probably a very short production run to be sold only at the '62 World Series. You never see them come to auction or eBay, and it's been that way for the last 30 years.

Much like Rob's 1954 WS Pennant, it's just a super scarce variation. BTW, did you guys see what the '54 recently sold for in LOTG? :eek:

See link below....

http://loveofthegameauctions.com/Rar...-LOT20768.aspx

My earliest pennants
 

Nice grouping from the teens. Quebec towns an Athletic Club perhaps, HS? And Winnipeg.

Cleveland Indians. How many ‘54 pennants are there? I think it’s gotta be 7 or 8 - I don’t have them all - and mostly from the same company!

https://photos.app.goo.gl/BaQeZzJM7pdZ4suLA