June Pick-ups
 

Finally got this back from the slabbers, 30 days doesn't mean 30 days FYI, not even 30 business days, took more like 40 business days b4 they shipped, ugh.........but.....

per their registry this is the latest ticket from Ruth's playing days on record, none have been graded from the remaining 3 days Ruth played, so kinda cool.

Great article from Sports Illustrated about this game too:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vau...ne/MAG1138666/

Cool ticket Paul!

1951 Harrisburg Senators team signed photo.

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1897 Peter Jackson pin

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...ackson%201.JPG

Very nice specimen. They are often foxed or have cracking.

Paul

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June pickups
 

I just added these two PM10 pinbacks of double no-hit pitchers:

Allie Reynolds pitched 2 no-hitters in 1951. On July 12, 1951 he no-hit the Cleveland Indians in Cleveland. On September 28, 1951 he no-hit the rival Bosox at NY

Jim Bunning threw a no-hitter and perfect game. On July 20, 1958 Bunning no-hit the Bosox at Boston. After changing leagues, Bunning pitched a perfect game against the NY Mets at Shea on Fathers Day- June 21, 1964.

Scott,I like your Bunning pin!!

Not a big fan of PSA, but I like that they added the significance of the ticket stub to the slab. Congrats on the pickup.

Thanks Steve!

Thanks all.......and.......I actually put it on the submission form to include, so glad they did. Otherwise my guess is they wouldn't have put that part on.

I'm glad PSA is amenable to that kind of thing.

Brooks Lawrence was a pitching coach in the 80s for a relative of mine. Great photo!

Great photo of Brooks!

Picked up set of Awesome Red Sox/Jimmy Fund license plates, circa 2006. This one sold, but I get to keep one too. :)

Got another Rickey Henderson bat from 2001, his road to 3,000 hits. Top one is the newest addition.

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Very cool bats Nate! Loved watching Ricky play

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...ge/Zulueta.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...%20Poster.jpeg
http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...%20poster.jpeg

Awesome Dempsey/Gibbons poster!

Numbers 789 and 790 in my Baseball magazine supplements (m113 & m114) collection...

Man Doug, I thought you had them all by now...? ;)

Adam that's a very cool photo of Sugar Ray. I have been tempted to venture into boxing photos as there are some a maxing shots from that era. I love the action shots when the flash captures the sweat flying and cigar smoke in the air. Unfortunately I can barely afford my baseball photo habbit:o

Laughing. Nope Lance, it's the never ending quest.

I still need :
5 of the 1957 large sized posters (17.5 X 20)
13 of the player M113s
13 of the team M113s
44 of the player M114s with a non-DC address
10 of the player M114s with a DC address
14 of the team M114s

Those counts of course assume that everything in the catalog actually exists, and don't allow for unlisted ones (of which there are many).

I posted in the BST about my ongoing search, but have had minimal responses :
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=156561


And, here's number 791...

This fits nowhere in my collection, but he was always my favorite wrestler. I may give it to a friend of mine who is a huge wrestling fan.

Love it Doug

Tuohey and his pals arrived today, courtesy of REA

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2894/8...b4108d04_c.jpg

Doug,
Just curious, how many supplements are in the m113 & m114 collection total?

Wow, what a project!

Boxing photos can still be had at a very reasonable price considering the caliber of fighters you can find. I happen to prefer studio portraits and fighter-issued promotional photos. None of these cost me much:

HOFer Ezzard Charles:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...ge/Charles.jpg

Pre-1926 Gene Tunney promo:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...ey%20promo.jpg

George Foreman and Ken Norton doing their best "Superfly" in the 1970s:

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...LFPP20278A.jpg

1946 wire photo of Beau Jack and Danny Kapilow

http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibit...20v%20Jack.JPG

1928 National League Champion St. Louis Cardinals Train Menu
 

Odd item, couldn't resist.

The train menu for the Cards for what I assume was the train back from New York, down 2-0 to the Yankees of Ruth & Gehrig.

Perhaps Grover Cleveland Alexander or Frankie Frisch ordered the $1.50 Sirloin Steak & Eggs in hopes of getting back into the Series, which was not to be. There would be no train ride back to New York as they were swept 4 straight.

Johnny Vander Meer 1938 game used ball- NL Ford Frick
 

I picked up a nice item today for my advanced Johnny Vander Meer collection.

Here is a game used 1938 NL (Ford Frick) ball that was pitched by Vander Meer and fouled into the stands at Cincinnati Reds' Crosley Field. The patron inscribed the ball, but did not note the actual game day. The ball had been stored in a closet away from light for virtually the entire time since 1938.

BTW, the central focus of my Vander Meer collection is the year 1938, so this is a pickup that's obviously right in my wheelhouse.

Many thanks to History of the Baseball and net54's own, Brandon G. for confirming that the NL Frick ball was correct for the year in the inscription. :cool:

Good question Scott, I don't know. I think the catalog lists 695 of them. I'm at 791, but I still show myself needing 117.

I'm betting there are close to 1,000 of them.


On a separate subject, but still a June pickup, I received possibly my best ebay score ever in the mail a few minutes ago.

$13.49 for a (well) scored program from Koufax's first no-hitter.

It's great when sellers don't know what they have.

Woohoo!
Doug

Thanks Doug! Wow, what a project!
That Koufax 1st no-hitter program is a dandy for the price. Congrats!

Doug and Scott,
Both fantastic pick ups.

My newest pics of Lou.

1938 AS game with Dimaggio scoring

http://www.net54baseball.com/picture...ictureid=11565

http://www.net54baseball.com/picture...ictureid=11566

1938 Lou on Rawhide movie set.

http://www.net54baseball.com/picture...ictureid=11567

Nice pick up Paul. Beautiful shape too!

I picked up this ring at Steiner today. I was blown away by the tour and I was able to personally meet Brandon Steiner too! What a nice guy!

The whole staff was great! This World Series ring is in unusually good condition. It has a real diamond and the proper vintage markings and engravings inside the ring.

This is the last world series that Lou Gehrig played in. The following year he played in a handful of games before ending his career.

The ring belonged to an executive of the team, George Weiss, who is in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

ring
 

Michael,
Beautiful piece! Thanks for sharing!

1930 Kansas City Blues Calendar
 

Huge 1930 Kansas City Blues Goetz Beer Advertising calendar. 20"x 30" Never seen one similar.

Love the Kc calendar.

1920 Boston Americans Shareholder document
 

Thought this was a neat one, and I simply couldnt resist!

Document is an alphabetical list of stockholders for the Boston American League Baseball club dated 11/27/1920. It was put together by the Corporation Trust Company who is now known as Wolters Kluwer. There is some handwriting on the document but mostly typing... what is cool about it is that it has the names and addresses of 5 owners (Namely Hary Frazee) along with the amount of common and preferred stock they held in the team...I thought it was particularly cool as it was a year end document that was put together in the very year Ruth was sold by Frazee to the yanks...

shareholder names are as follows:
Harry H. Frazee
U.J. Herrmann
John C. Heyer
Mary E. Lampert
Hugh J. Ward

My June Original Photo Pick Ups
 

I have had a pretty good month picking up original photos for my collection. I am VERY happy to finally have an original copy of the 1949 Stengel. It has long been one of my favorite images. The others are Joe Cronin 1935, Kiki Cuyler 1929, 1925 Pirates with Traynor, Cuyler, Moor, and Carey, Goslin, and Cuyler once again. The final two are Bain photos of NY Giants Owner John Brush (1911) who is responsible for the cancellation of the 1904 World Series, and John Baxter Barbour, Jr. (1914) who was the President of the Pittsburgh Rebels of the Federal League.

1920-30 Earl Sheely game used bat
Derek Deitrich game used bat(called him up and is currently batting 3rd for Miami)

Eagles Cufflinks
 

Recently picked up these cool cufflinks to add to my Eagles collection. They are 14 K gold with diamonds on the wings and inside the football within its talons. They belonged to a former Philadelphia Eagles owner.
http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n...psab1032a6.jpg

Congrats
 

Thanks, Carlton. It is 29" tall and 20" wide. I plan to get it framed and matted as there is some damage on the bottom of the calendar that I would like to mat out. When I saw it, it was one of those "have to have it" moments.

The cufflinks are incredible!!!Do you know which owners they were?

This is literally a 'pick up'. I've been in Colorado for the last five weeks, running in the desert/mountains, and I've picked up a few arrowheads and Indian tools along the way. The other day I picked up a beautiful spear point right on the running trail, so started looking around and found a few other items. Took my brother with me the next day I found this tiny one inch long arrowhead, sitting in the dirt exactly as shown. Through a weird feature of my phone that I accidentally turned on, it took an 'inverse' pic an the same time, showing my brother and myself looking down at the find:

Thanks Steve; yes, they belonged to Leonard Tose, who owned the team from 1969 or so until the early 80's.

Scott,

Beautiful find! This is another passion of mine, although I do not get to "hunt" as much as I used too... I used to be a Land Surveyor, but for me it was like getting paid to arrowhead hunt! So you can imagine I have quite a few. I really like the small bird points - the smaller the better - They are just so much harder to find. Its really sweet when the points are laying on top of the ground just screaming "pick me up!"

I've recently started taking my son (he is starting to figure out what exactly were looking for) and its been kinda dry... Well this past Monday I came home from work and my wife said "you better go see what your son has found" - so he comes running up and said "I found an arrowhead, a big one!" - Well lets see it? I followed him to the car and he searched & searched & I searched & searched to no avail... He was so disappointed, wife said it was a really nice one over two inches long and must have dropped it at one of the parking lots they were at during the day. Needless to say, he is now hooked - so perhaps it was not a bad thing he lost it :)

Would love to see a picture of the Spear Point you found...

Beautiful shots, Mike. The Stengel is absolutely classic. The shot of the '25 Pirates is also pretty darn amazing!!

Bravo!

Graig

Thanks Graig, I have been wanting that Stengel image for a long time. I saw it twice in past Henry Yee auctions. Due to the price, I was out of the competition early on both occasions. This one was a lucky find and much more in line with my budget.

You actually are RUN-Scott! :) Nice finds. As a kid I found a partial spearhead while bird hunting in a freshly plowed field in Wisconsin. It was found many miles away from the nearest river. Must have been lost while the original owner was away from his group/tribe on a hunting trip. Only one I ever found. It is something I cherish and will always keep. Very cool Scott.

Shawn, that's too bad your son lost his arrowhead, but now you can design a trip to a site where he's very likely to find one - perhaps it will be a more special find if you do it together.

Almost every piece I find is very special - the moment of discovery is always great - but the spearpoint (or knife blade) was cool because it was the first complete blade with really good detail. I was about halfway through a miserable desert run and was a bit dehydrated, so finding this piece made the rest of it almost pleasant. I wish I had my camera so that I could have gotten a shot of it in the dirt. The trip the next day was specifically to look for arrowheads, so we were ready - other than the small black one and a rough scraper, we only found pieces. The blade is in the center of the pic. The one to the left of it is also very cool - worked all the way around and it's been heated on the back (same design as piece at center bottom). The quartz tool is also one of my favorites - there is a lot of quartz in the area, but it must be hard to work - very few tools. I found all of these in wash areas over the last 4 weeks.

All the collectors I know go to freshly-plowed fields, or drained lakes. I have always just scoured arid areas where game live, mainly because I like running in such places.

Unfortunately, my antique store baseball collectible hunting has turned up almost nothing. I found a display of three RPPC's from about 1910 of minor league teams from the Southeast, but they were badly creased and the seller wanted $275. I googled the rosters for all three teams for 1908-12 and there was nothing special.

Scott,

Nice haul! Its funny, but here in Georgia, quartz points are the most prominent... It's really special when you find a Flint / Chert point.

My wife & I used to live in Zion National park and while I did find a few points (in the park) it was the outlying areas (outside the park) that would really produce. We have a friend who lives in Kanab, Utah (where allot of the original Lone Ranger was filmed - I have even been to the spot where Silver & the Ranger ride up on the cliff "Hi-Ho, Silver! Away!") and he & I would load up. Tons of beautiful stuff on his land including pottery pieces. Plus my first obsidian point!

One of my most insane finds - you have probably been to an old mom & pop restaurant or an old country store and seen the displays of arrowheads glued to a piece of ply-wood, usually in some kind of crazy pattern... Well one day surveying in Tennessee I was walking down the road locating the edge of pavement when I came up on a piece of wood laying in the grass - looked like the backing out of a cheap picture frame probably 1' x 2' - well when I flipped it over, to my surprise it was covered in arrowheads, little tools and even human teeth! Some of the artifacts had fallen off so I spent a fair amount of time searching in the grass and found several more. Then I walked farther down the road and found two more boards!!!! I can only guess that some old man had them in a box in the back of his pick-up and they blew out while driving down the road?

Have you found any pottery pieces?

That is a very strange find.

I did find a nice quartz arrowhead in Georgia. I was at a triathlon - as we left the parking lot to head down a trail to the start of the race, right where there was a small wash where the parking lot met the trail, it was just lying there. Most of the arrowheads I have found have been along trails I had been running, when I took a short break to rest - makes me wonder how much stuff is out there, but I run in some pretty weird places.

Hey Guys,
I just received 3 original Jackie Robinson 4x5 negatives that I purchased. The images were taken by Barney Stein who was the Dodgers' official photographer for 20 years. The one with him on the bus was from 1954 the other 2 were from 1955.

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Very nice photos Ryan.
Great Pickups.

Vandy and Lefty Gomez- 1938 All Star game winning and losing pitchers
 

I was happy to add this Type I photo of Johnny Vander Meer and Lefty Gomez who were the NL and AL starting pitchers in the 1938 All Star game at Cincinnati.

Vandy got the win and Lefty Gomez took the loss.

Very excited to add a copy of one of my favorite Gehrig pics. Yes, it's cropped, but it doesn't matter to me. I got it for a great price and the most important part of the pic is still there.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...LGwithbats.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...withbatsbk.jpg

That's a good one Mark. Any original photos with Lou are becoming very hard to find. It's also nice that it's still got Greene's stamp on the back.

Nice pickup Mark! Congrats! :)

Thanks guys.
Lou pictures are still out there, but they are getting pricier.


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I've been on a negative kick lately. Since I got a scanner that can scan them I can't stop myself. Here's a couple I recently picked up:

Here are 2 of Joe DiMaggio from 1936. I really haven't begun to research what is going on in the images yet but the only thing I have to go on is the title when I purchased them was "Joe Dimaggio reading telegram about World Series". The only thing I can think of is he is receiving his check with his winnings from the WS? If anyone has any good ideas they would be appreciated.
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This one is Hal Newhouser from 1947

love that Hal Newhauser. Is it a Burke?

In my never-ending quest for esoteric baseball photos, I recently picked up this one of King (or Kingfish) Levinsky, Jewish fish monger turned boxer of the late 1920's and 1930's who apparently tried out for (or more likely just worked out with) the Cincinnati Reds on March 8, 1935. I'm assuming this was just a fun interlude between bouts as he had fought 4 days before in Tampa (where the Reds training camp was located), and was back in the ring again on the 27th in Dallas.

How's that for obscure? I thought it was neat and worth sharing anyway.

Lance,
DEFINITELY obscure! Congrats! ;)

Mike - I was thinking the same thing when I purchased it. It definitely looks like his style. The listing I bought it from didn't mention Burke and the envelope the neg was in doesn't either. Plus Burke passed away in 1948 and this is September of 1947 so I don't know how far up until his death he was still shooting.

Ryan, What are the dimensions of the negative, and are there any letters/numbers written along one of the edges that we can't see in the scan? Even if it was not shot by Burke, it could have been shot by George Brace. It's often hard to distinguish between the two, though as you say, that late in Burke's career, George Brace may have been taking more of the photos. (And FWIW, Burke had a heart attack in 1948, which ended his photography career, but didn't actually pass until 1951.)

Either way though, whether Burke or Brace, if it was shot by either of them it should carry a code written on the edge of the negative of "1454-A4" with "1454" being the player number code they used for Newhouser, "A" indicating American League, and "4" being the Detroit Tigers. They used these codes to indicate a certain player/team combination, but not a unique negative, so there could be (and probably are) a number of different shots of Newhouser that carry the same coding.

Example from a period print:

Hi Lance - The neg is 4x5. I do have several Burke negs that are 5x7. I'm not sure if that is the size he always used?
Also, if you look in the upper left corner of the neg, what looks like a smudge is actually "41" scratched in there. But there aren't any other markings.

duke snider bat
 

Hi i picked up this duke snider bat and was hoping someone could give me some info on it? I have seen these college bats before but always with the school name under the players name which this one does not have that. Any info would be great thank you.

Nice Snider bat. Much rarer version of a college bat, but a college bat nonetheless.
Matt

Another recent pick-up, more for what else is in the photo besides the subject. It shows Al Zarilla ca. 1953 showing off his "hobby of making lamps and ashtrays out of bats and baseballs." Anyone ever run across one of these? I thought the photo was just as interesting for the other pictured pieces of memorabilia pictured that are popular nowadays, and was delighted to spot what looks to be a George Burke standee of Zarilla in his mid-to-late-40's Browns uniform sitting on the table to his right, something I overlooked when I first spied the photo. Lots to see in this one :cool:

Ruth Rookie -- Very Rare Type 1 Photo
 

I'd like to see other Ruth rookie type 1 (original news service) photos if people have them. I know that they are very scarce. Here is mine: http://www.psacard.com/DNACert/I04937

It looks a lot like the post card seen here: http://www.robertedwardauctions.com/auction/2012/14.

Attached is the back of the photo where you can see the photography stamp and caption, indicating that the photo was taken ot September 30th, the day that the Red Sox took the American League. This is a cool link to a very simular photo that ran in the paper a day later on October 1, 1915. If you look closely under the photo you will see a copywrite line from the International Press: http://www.rarenewspapers.com/view/587997

Cool stuff.

ethan_ready@hotmail.com

Lance that is a very fun photo to look at. Although I try to stick to photos of members of the HOF I will occasionally purchase similar photos that are amusing and or interesting. I especially like photos of Nick Altrock and AL Schact for that very reason.

These pick ups are not rare or pre-war. However, I am very pleased to finally add examples of them to my collection. The 1970's Hank Aaron chalkware plaque measures 9'"X12" and was difficult to find in mint condition and in the original box. This one meets both of those criteria so I am thrilled. The Movie poster has been on my want list for a very long time. I was finally able to purchase one that was within my budget.

Picked up this 1949 wire photo with Stengel, Wheat, Pfeffer, Chief Meyers, Marquard, and Nap Rucker.

Cool photo, Kenny! Congrats!

Thanks Scott, I liked it.

1930 Kansas City Blues Calendar
 

I posted this a couple of weeks ago, but just got it back from the framer. I am very pleased with the results.