October Pick Ups
 

Billy Herman 1935
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Joe Cronin and Ernie Lombardi during charity game in 1935
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Hank Greenberg photo used for 1936 Goudey card

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1930 Portrait of Rookie Luke Appling

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1961 Roger Maris grounding out in last at bat the night he hit #59. Pitcher is Hoyt Wilhelm

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Old Homer Wooden Marble Baseball Game
 

Love the graphics on this one

found this old pic amoungst my step-dads things. wray colorado, cant find much of a history on this team though. man on the far right is his great-uncle. pic is from sometime in the 20's-30's, i think...

http://i1256.photobucket.com/albums/.../LastScan2.jpg

I would say 1910ish on the photo

you think so?

According to the collared unis, and the hats yea. Hard to tell by the gloves.

What an awkward position for both cather and runner in this tag!

yankee turnstile
 

just picked up yankee turnstile from the old stadium from dealer in NJ. Complete turnstile with the wheels. usually just get the stand up part. In great cond. Carlton i know you talked about these a while ago. I got a great deal.

Another bat from a St. Paul Saints player, Mark Koenig, though this one is just a catalog model.

1967 All-Star Pennant
 

Finished one part of Angels pennant collection by picking up this 1967 All-Star pennant. I really wish they would have moved the Big A back into left field when the stadium was renovated.

Great Pennant (and a real toughie!)

I felt that way too.... was really hoping they would move the "A" back where it belongs. The renovation was pretty neat, but that classic Big A in Left Field was magical. I can still recall Lee Stanton hitting one of the legs of the "A" on 2 bounces. A mammoth blast!

1938 Cincinnati Post special All Star Edition featuring NL starting pitcher Johnny "Double No-Hit" Vander Meer.

This might look pretty cool framed up with my ticket stub from the game...
Whattya think?

Nationals
 

This is a three piece shaving kit that dates back to the turn of the century I believe.

That's not turn-of-the-century, Bob. More like 1950s.

Very cool piece and an excellent companion to the ticket. Is there a stub you don't have!?

Thanks Mike! There might be a couple... ;)
I guess that's a bi-product of collecting the baseball ticket theme continuously for 40 years!

Pinbacks
 

I've been after this pin for a while and was very happy with the bargain price of $41.00 on ebay!!! :)

http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q...Untitled-3.jpg

This 3" pin has been veeery tough to track down.
http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q...Untitled-1.jpg

Dave is right on Bob. I've seen a few of these over the years. Definately 40s or 50s, BUT still great pieces, so be excited ;)

Scott may have all the stubs, but he is still missing the Mariners' organic compositing bucket that was given out on the day of Humber's perfect game. I am holding out for big bucks for that one :p:D

I liked this one. Bob Feller made his debut with the Indians in July of 1936 at the age of 17. Then he went back to finish High School in Van Meter, Iowa. This was taken in December 1936 in school. He had already struck out 17 batters in one game at the age of 17! And went 5-3 with a 3.34 ERA.

Agreed. Cool piece. I imagine its difficult to find a complete set.

Antique picking last weekend
 

This past weekend my dad, my son and I spent the day hitting an estate auction and an antique/paper show, and the three generations of us were all pretty excited by our pickups. First at the estate auction, what had been billed as some old baseballs turned out to be well worth stopping by for. The cream of the crop was a 1928 Philadelphia Athletics team signed ball featuring Cobb, Speaker, Mack etc; for some reason signed on a Spalding National League ball. Then at the paper show, I met up with a fellow Carlisle Indians collector and worked out a trade that we were both happy with - I ended up with a circa 1910 Carlisle Lacrosse team photo, a Carlisle football team photo (most likely a shop team), and a Letter award for playing Lacrosse that is signed by Pop Warner. The most exciting find of the show beside that trade was a very attractive Dieges & Clust Figural Baseball Plaque dated to 1916. Overall a pretty fun day.
http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/p...islepieces.jpg
http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/p...Plaqueball.jpg

Pesky baseball
 

I posted this on the autograph forum earlier, but figured I would post as a reply to my previous post here, since I picked this ball up with the 28 A's ball.
One of the other balls that came with this Pesky ball included a 1945 dated baseball signed by various servicemen stationed at Pearl Harbor. The ball in question is a Reach Harridge model ball, with a US Navy stamping. It has 2 signatures, 1 of which is Johnny Pesky. I was curious if any recognizes the second signature? Based on its inclusion with the Pearl Harbor ball, my theory is that a Navy serviceman had Pesky sign this ball in 1945, since Pesky was also stationed at Pearl Harbor at the time. The 2nd signature might not be a player at all, but figured I would pick the brains of the auto experts over here.
Thanks in advance for any help,
Keith
http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/p...skin/pesky.jpg

1909 Pirates Team Composite
 

Was very happy when this arrived yesterday!

Beautiful piece, Greg! :)

Jersey
 

Was happy to get this off the 'Bay for a paltry sum. Has double significance for me as I am from the State College, PA. area AND it was made by the Honus Wagner Sporting Goods Company :)

Thanks for the clarification on the dates guys, is this a complete set then or are the other pieces to it? Thanks again

+1

Yesterday's antique show haul...heading back today as one dealer told me he's been holding some stuff for me and he forgot it at home. Will show a pic of that stuff later.

Recent October pickups
 

Here are 3 new pickups to show:

1) 1937 Wheaties box panel of HOF'er Ernie Lombardi. He caught Johnny Vander Meer's consecutive no-hitters in 1938

2) 1940 World Series game 5 ticket stub. This game would prove to be Vander Meer's only appearance in the October classic. Vandy pitched 3 shutout innings in relief.

3) 1972 Bob Moose Testimonial program. Bob Moose no-hit the Miracle Mets in NY on 9/20/69. He ironically died suddenly in 1976 while getting into a two car crash in OH heading to his own 29th birthday party at Bill Mazeroski's house.

1938 type 1 photo used for his RARE 1939 salutations Exhibit card
 

I picked up this wonderful image from a fellow member. Thanks Gary!

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I recently picked up a few items from Pirate Bob Moose’s estate. They include his 1971 Pirates team travel Blazer with matching tie, and a tankard commemorating the 1971 Pirates World Series Championship. Each member of the team was given a tankard. The wire photo shows Moose (left) and Bruce Kison (right) leaving Memorial Stadium shortly after game seven. In the background of the photo is Bob Prince who had chartered a helicopter to deliver Kison to his wedding which was scheduled that same afternoon. Moose served as the best man. Although it is difficult to see, if you look closely at Kison’s blazer it appears to be similar to the one I purchased. Moose is carrying his own Blazer. Obviously I cannot be certain that it is the same jacket. However, it may not be a strecth to assume so. Bob Moose died tragically on October 9, 1976 in a car accident. He was traveling to a party being held at Bill Mazeroski’s house to celebrate his 29th Birthday.

Mike,
Those Bob Moose items are unbelievable!
What a terrific pickup for your Pirates collection. Congrats! :eek:

Now I've had this photo for a couple years now, and when I saw Ben's photo pop up on Legendary's last auction, I did a double take. I knew it wasn't the same image and after looking at them now side by side for the first time, I see it's not from the same swing like I had originally thought, but it's certainly from the same time.

I brought it to Ben's attention and he said "I've seen that image before... the Lou Gehrig Comic Book!" And sure enough, a quick search on ebay confirmed it. Well, I've sold and traded most of my companion pieces but something tells me I may need to make an exception here. ;)

Thanks Ben. You doubled the value of my photo! :D



Here's my photo and Ben's...
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Mike, nice pickups and great story to go along with them.

1935 Pittsburgh Pirates Season Ticket Babe Ruth Homeruns #712, 713, 714 Baseball
 

Picked this up recently, for sale on Ebay or send me a message here, will sell for less then I have it up for.


http://www.ebay.com/itm/180999216108...84.m1555.l2649

1949 Movie Poster
 

I have always wanted an example of this 1949 poster. It features the 1948 Tribe and 11 members of the Baseball Hall of Fame. I picked this one up fairly cheaply due to a few condition issues. They really don't detract from the piece and will be covered when the poster is matted and framed.

"Rusty" Tamblyn! Riff!

"When you're a Jet... "

Pre-October but just scanned. I think it would make a nice T-shirt.

Those are just awesome! Brings back kid memories... watching those Pirate teams back then were great...I still remember the thrill of seeing them vs my Giants at Old Candlestick... Bob died much too young...

Ricky Y

This is pre-October for me also, it's 9x14 and I haven't been able to locate a scanner big enough to scan, so please excuse the watermark. See if you can pick out the 15 yr old future member of the 3000 hit club and future Hall of Famer.

Al Kaline, second from left?

Looks like Al Kaline second from left?

Greg

Yep. Here is the back of the photo.

Very nice pick up Ryan, there cannot be very many copies of that shot out there.

Great photo, Ryan!

+1

That's a good one, as long as you're only scanning flat items. Best value I've found for oversized items. My only complaint is that if you are scanning something with "depth" to it (including anything in a hard slab), it doesn't focus well. As long as your photo is flat on the glass though, it works well.

1902 Terre Haute Hottentots team photo. Measures 16 X 20 and has 8 players pictured that made it to the bigs:

Jim Hackett
Rudy Kling
Bill Popp
Bill Richardson
Larry Schlafly
Dick Scott
George Starnagle
Rube Vickers

1911 Great Bend Millers team photo. Team had 5 players that made it to the big show but is missing Farmer Weaver, so the photo only depicts 4:

Wild Bill Luhrsen
Ovid Nicholson
Rolla Mapel
George Kaiserling

1899 KU Yearbook w/ Naismith
 

Couldn't quite afford the Original Rules, but was pleased to pick up this 1899 edition of the Kansas University Yearbook. This was the first year for basketball at KU and the first year as coach for James Naismith. Also, pretty cool pictures of the baseball and football teams. As you may know, Naismith was the only KU coach to have a career losing record there.

Cards could have used Frankie's bat the last couple of nights!

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...es/frbt001.jpg

Not sure if this is the place for non-vintage football, but I just acquired this:

Who cares if its the right place, that's Awesome!

Someone isn't being paid to injure players anymore so they had to sell their ring. Sorry, I had to! BEAUTIFUL RING Michael, Congratulations! May I ask what the favorite ring in your collection is?

picked up a couple things recently:

game program, yankees white sox, july 22 1939:
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game program, white sox athletics, july 13 1939:
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stub from above game:
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covers of above programs:
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i'm not quite sure why the ticket has the july date written on it, but is clearly stamped apr 23 (which should have been a vs st louis game), but i'm told that they were aquired together, so who knows....

i'm pretty happy in any case.....

--mike.

Mike,
It probably was a game that was rescheduled due to weather issues since it has Apr. 23 printed on it. Look at a newspaper from April 23rd, 1939 and you can probably confirm this.

I hope this helps!

apr 23rd game was played that year. chi won 17-4 over st louis. still a mystery...

In football, this ring is not for everyone, but I was really thrilled to finally acquire it recently. it is 2.5 times heavier than superbowl rings from the 70's.

My favorite baseball ring is a '55 dodger player ring.

4 Homerun Game Tickets
 

Since there are not too many tickets in this collection I am trying to get all 4 homerun game tickets. The newer ones aren't real difficult but older ones obviously are. I just managed to get this Joe Adcock stub off Ebay. July 31st, 1954. I still need Lou Gehrig 6/3/32 in Phila, Chuck Klein 7/10/36 in Pitts, Rocky Colavito 6/10/59 in Balt Willie Mys 4/3061 in Mil. & Mike Schmidt 4/17/76 in Chi.

Based on the scoring in the scorecard, the game was played on July 13. The white Sox lost 12-10 after having an 8-0 lead through the first 3 innings.

www.retrosheet.org is the go to sight to figure out these types of questions.

Doug


PS - the other one looks to be from the July 28th game as noted on it's cover.

i was speaking more as to which game the ticket stub came from, and was directly referring to the april game that looks to be the day the ticket was issued. trying to determine why someone would write the "july 13" date on a ticket that was clearly for an april game?

Original Photo pick ups
 

These are my most recent original photo pick-ups: Walter Johnson 1928, Monte Stratton 1940, Hal Newhouser 1940 (rookie year), Bucky Harris wedding 1926 (she looks thrilled about that cake), Willie Mays 1957, Al Simmons 1930, Lefty Gomez 1937 (1936 World Wide Gum photo) and 1941, Lou Brock both are 1960s images the Cub photo is from member whitehse the Cardinals photos is by Emmons, and Joe Cronin and Bill Terry 1934.

Curious, does anyone know where we can find tickets? I've been looking for marlins tickets from 5-14-1998 to 5-22-1998 for about a decade it feels like.

The 5-22-1998 stub is on ebay right now...

This one arrived recently:

http://tribune-files.imagefortress.c...JPG?1303550874

Yeah!
 

I have been looking for this piece for quite a while and got quite a good deal I thought in Heritage's auction today.

http://sports.ha.com/c/item.zx?saleN...lotIdNo=255009

Nice photos Mike. Some of those look familiar because you snagged them right before me! Really like that Simmons. I got some of his photos myself but just haven't had the time to scan yet.

Ok, with showing your photos, you guys got me motivated to scan. This is some of what I've picked up over the last 2 months.

Bill Carrigan, Nick Altrock and Fred Clarke presenting a gold bat and painting to Ty Cobb 1930
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Frank Chance 1916
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Shoeless Joe 1935
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Nick Altrock 1906
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Nick Altrock and Al Schacht 1929
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Goose Goslin, with a Goose! 1934
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Goose Goslin 1935
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Yankee Stadium during 1939 World Series
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20 yr old Red Schoendienst - Pre Rookie 1943
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Continued..

Roger Peckinpaugh - 1923 - Charles Conlon photo
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John McGraw - 1929
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Dizzy Dean getting hitched - 1931
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Bill Terry looking like a gangster - 1931
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Hank Greenberg - 1934
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Hank Greenberg - Not sure of year
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Ted Williams - 1958
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Awesome photos guys!

Very nice Fazzino! I've admired that piece for a while too. IMO, you did get a very good deal. Congrats.

Great photos Ryan, I see a few you beat me to as well.

Those are some terrific items you got from the estate of Bob Moose, Mike. Damn... you've been on some kind '71 Pirates roll lately. Hope you can keep it going!

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WoW! That is a flat out beautiful piece, Greg! I would think that that is one of those things that you just never get tired of looking at it. I know I wouldn't.

Jim Palmer no-hit ticket
 

I'm happy to fill a challenging hole in my no-hit ticket collection. :)
I finally found a ticket stub to HOF Jim Palmer's no-hitter on 8/13/69 at Baltimore.
For whatever reason, this ticket has been an SOB to find.

BTW, I now have tickets to 181 no-hitters and perfect games dating back to 1901. :cool:

Miguel Montero game used bat from 2011, I photo matched him using it to hit two home-runs.

Good one, Scott. Congrats.

Brock,
While I would agree that the barrel appears to be a match, the handle shows a much different amount of pine tar applied. The in-use photo shows minimal pine tar, wheras your bat has what I would call extensive application of pine tar.

I would tend to attribute this this to Montero using this bat over an extended period of time before he cracked it. He might have even hit more homers with it than you think, given its use. Food for thought....

Thanks Doug.

BTW, locating a Palmer no-hitter ticket stub has taken me over 40 years . Go figure, as there were 16,826 in attendance that night.