December pickups
 

Might as well start this month. Bought in Nov, obviously, but just arrived. Nice 40's Bob Kennedy gamer. Bought from Probstein, so now I'm worried that I got shilled, but I absolutely love the bat.

Ken

Nice bat Ken -- that's a time period where the wood and the labeling really have a nice look.

Greg

I agree. I love these vintage bats, although the flame-burned early-80's display well, too.
Regards,
Ken

I almost bid on a few of his bats last week but looked at the bidding history on each item and said the hell with it.

But anyways, very nice bat!

This was an inside job (Net54).

1946 East West Negro League All Star team (West Squad).

Rob M.

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The Big Bear had quite a run for the Tribe from 1951 through '54.

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I think early on the seller -- or someone like him -- was bidding; low feedback, they had 100% bids with probstein, and they put in dozens of bids at $2 increments. But in the end it appears I went head-to-head with another bat guy.

Not pre-War, but a cool little "training" item for the kids. Love the box graphics.

Nice pick-up on the Negro League photo, Rob. I almost pulled the trigger on that one as well..........

That is a great and very underrated game Brian. I have one in my collection and love it.

That 1946 East West Negro League All Star team photo is beautiful.

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1993-95 Dave Winfield game used Cooper bat

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This thing isn't old/valuable, but I think is cool. Will be for sale soon. Appears to be in an MLB case. half inc video tape of the 49WS. Anybody have any info on it?

2004 Adrian Beltre game worn Dodgers jersey

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Scott- your video of the 1949 World Series is from MLB Productions. They began selling tapes in the early 1980s for the World Series from 1943-forward. Their early catalogs list the tapes at $29.99 which was huge in those days!

They started adding team highlight videos they had in storage dating back to the 1960s but they were very eradic as to what they could come up with. Those were issued mostly in blue cases with the MLB logo. Some went for as much as $49.99. They went to colorful paper caes as early as 1982.

Doak Ewing of Rare Sports Films did a much better job of "harvesting" old highlight teams from the clubs especially the Braves back into the 1940s. His are cleaned up and nice while the MLB Production early films were a little spotty.

MLB teamed up with Scotch and issued a great series of team histories beginning in 1987 and that kicked off the baseball video explosion that was probably in response to the amazing success of NFL Films.

The early videos are not holding up well, they really deteriorate with time, I keep mine in a climate controlled environment but who knows. At this time I have over 775 baseball videos, DVDs and even more football with the proliferation of college highlight films.

Just picked up a documentary on Disco Night in Cleveland!

By the way the toughest baseball films for me to find are minor league histories and highlight films. If anybody has any and can share the info ?I would appreciate it, I can add it to my want list and bibliography.

Mike, thanks for the information. I found my expert:)

I think the Disco (Demolition) Night you're referring to was in Chicago at a White Sox game. The Indians lay claim to the 10-Cent Beer Night fiasco.

Rob- You are 100 percent correct. I think the DJ's name was Rob Dahl???

I remember the incident and have seen clips over the years but this should be fun to watch. We are expecting 2-3 days of ce this weekend so that will be a good time to catch up on films if the power stays on!

Rob- I know there was a documentary put out in the Cleveland area a few years ago by one of the native american groups protesting the team name. If you ever see any info on a DVD please let me know.

That is not a call for support just an addition to my collection!

Picked up a few Native American postcards..one baseball and one Lacrosse.

I got this one cheap, probably because of the writing on the front, but to me that writing is invaluable.
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Steve Dahl, who later teamed up with Gary Meyer (sp?) in Chicago. Loved their show back in the day.

VERY neat, Dan! Any idea what timeframe those are from?

Right around 1910 for each of them.

Technically, this is a late November pickup. I knew the bread existed, but I had never seen a bag for it.

Alan

4 type 1 photos added to collection
 

1) Matty 1911 Bain-Fresh image I can't find anywhere even in Library of Congress.

http://i947.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps0d70210c.jpg


2) Well known Thorpe by Bain

http://i947.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps02f15607.jpg


3) RARE 1913 Yankees Team photo. First year they used the Yankee name and it is a LARGE 8X10

http://i947.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps6e22991b.jpg

4) DUPE POST(SORRY-I am just SOOOO HAPPY..:)) of my 1918 RED SOX TEAM PHOTO with blown up BABE.

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Amazing pickups Ben!

Thank you sir.. no 1927 yanks photos but I did pickup the GAME 4 WS clincher ticket stub. :)

Good grief, Ben, you are on a tear!

Ben,
Wow.
Slow day, Huh. I guess there weren't any good pictures available so you had to settle for these instead. It's such a shame.:rolleyes:

Congrats. Great photos.

5 Ryan Dempster game used bats that he brought over to Tx from his time in Chicago.

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[QUOTE=Forever Young;1213611]1) Matty 1911 Bain-Fresh image I can't find anywhere even in Library of Congress.

http://i947.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps0d70210c.jpg


Ben,
Awesome image of Matty. C'mon! Wow!

Wow
 

Phenomenal Ben, as always!

My 1920's New York Yankee Type 1 Photo Collection
 

Haven't made any recent posts on the pickup thread, but finally got all my photos together and thought I would post a photo of my 1920's New York Yankee Type 1 Photo Collection to date. Consists of primarily Babe Ruth & Lou Gehrig related photos and majority are from 1927. Most appealing part for me is obviously the amazing content, but every photo in my collection is a LARGE format photo, 8x10 or very close to it. Very happy with what I have been able to assemble up to this point!

Bryan - very cool
 

Can u post a bigger shot of the one in the middle, looks like the crowd on the field.

What is the caption on that one?

Thanks Paul!

Here is a link to my collection:

http://sportscollectorsdaily.ning.com/profile/Bryan

Just click on it to view my photos. I have high quality scans of the front and reverse. The photo in the middle is just after the Yankees won the 1927 World Series with the fans gathering and celebrating on the field as they exited the stadium. Pretty cool shot that you would never see done these days!

My Joe chair from original owner who had footstool custom made to match. I drove 2860 miles over 51 hours to pick it up! 48 hours of driving with 3 hours of sleep! Good times :)

Great Chair!

Michael, you're nuts! Sweet man cave chair!

Damn.. Where from where? I forget most of the world doesn't have a foot of snow...cool item!

Great photos Bryan !

Thanks guys! I'm pretty excited about getting it. I drove from Tulsa OK to outside NY city last weekend to get it. I got everything from people staring as they passed me to getting thumbs from a middle aged couple to a younger girl taking a cell phone pic coming up to a stop light.

Picked up another addition to my Federal League collection. This one only tangentially related. A bulletin from Ban Johnson to the AL club owners, referencing 1915 contracts with the ten-day release provision eliminated. The provision was omitted after several courts held that it rendered MLB's standard player contract unenforceable the year before in cases brought by the Federal League.

Will be for sale soon: Kinda cool Wilson Glove tag with tips from four stars incl Nellie and TEDDY BALLGAME on how to take care of your gloves. Kiddies, READ UP AND LEARN;)

Great chair Michael -- I hope it didn't rain during your drive!

Greg

A couple of photos
 

1956 Roberto Clemente photo used for his Topps card 8 x 10
1916 Red Sox taken by George Bain 5 x 7 (This will be as close as I get to a Ruth rookie)

1916 Park Edition Baseball Magazine Ty Cobb
 

Baseball Magazine of Cobb came with a press photo of Cobb and his family in street clothes

Hans Wagner Salesman Samples
 

Added this as the companion piece to my label.

GREAT month so far, Keep em coming:)

Greg:
Beautiful and elegant Wagner piece.... love the depiction of early equipment.

Bob:
Amazing photos... The Clemente is just epic, and the Bain Red Sox speaks for itself. Great stuff!


Here's a cool early Bagatelle Game I picked up, circa 1888. From the Cooper collection, it's believed to be the first ever Baseball-themed Pinball Game...

Nice Bob! You got your ruth red sox photo:) That Clemente is the BOMB.

Game
 

Mark,
That is an amazing pinball game Mark, I love the display pieces and that is about as good as it gets! If you ever want to move that, please let me know

Thanks Bob, and yes... a nearly impossible game, let alone in this condition. It even retains 3 of the original wood balls.

We'll see what the future holds... If I somehow miraculously win "that other thing we spoke about", I will be in Emergency Selling Mode. I wouldn't hold my breath on that happening, but you never know ;)

The God of Batting
 

You are killing me with that Clemente image!

Here is the most recent addition to my increasingly eclectic collection. Although I dabble in Japanese baseball memorabilia I didn’t have an original photo from the Nippon Professional Baseball League. I saw this 1947 photo on eBay and fell in love with the photo’s composition without having any idea who the subject of the photo was. I googled his name (Tetsuharu Kawakami) and found that he was known as The God of Batting in Japan and is a member of their Hall of Fame. I contacted Robert Klevens of www.prestigecollectibles.com . He had this early 1950s Autographed Small shikishi by Tetsuharu Kawakami. Apparently autographed shikishis from this period are quite scarce. In addition to his name at left, Kawakami wrote "Tokyo Giants Team" in the center in Japanese. At right, he wrote the kanji for "Endeavor" signed with a traditional brush pen. If you read the link below by Robert Whiting you will learn how appropriate the use of the “Endeavor” kanji was by Kawakami. I hope to frame the photo and shikishi board together. By the way if you haven’t read Whiting’s book You Gotta Have Wa do so it is a great read.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2.../#.Up1Wu8u9KSM

That is really cool... I always thought collecting Japanese and Cuban past greats would be fun but I just can't collect everything. Really nice Mike.

Thanks Ben, that is great compliment coming from you. I only wish I had your collecting focus, knowledge, and resources.:D

Mark,
Beautiful early game! Congrats on this pickup. :)

Awesome Clemente, Bob!

Mike,

BEAUTIFUL photo of Kawakami. Pretty perfectly composed, nice light, cool content - you did quite well.

Bravo!

Graig

Congrats
 

Very nice photo, Mike, and I for one really appreciate your eclectic tastes. Anything you might be lacking in resources you seem to make up for in diligence and resourcefulness. Every time you snag one of these nice photos and say "I found it on eBay" I'm thinking to myself "Why didn't I see that? Is there some back room of eBay filled with such wonderment that I have somehow overlooked?" Anyway, another great find (especially with the shikishi to go with it), and I look forward to seeing what you unearth next :cool:

If I had unlimited resources it would be scary. I pick my battles now and got into this photo thing earlier than most. Luckily I was able to network, Educate myself and zero in on what I wanted to accomplish years ago. I was exactly where you were at 5 to 7 years ago. I, by no means, have crazy resources..just able to move things around and focus. You are on your way to building a word class collection with seemingly modest means, a great eye and many man hours. You certainly remind me of the "good old days". Great photos can still had but graduating to differt levels is inevitable my friend. :) don't stop while you're ahead says me! Haha!

An old time guy went to the game, pasted his tickets inside, marked who played, scored on the roster page, and even cut out articles from paper and pasted them in some spots, for the upcoming game.

Just love this kinda cool stuff. WHA All star program from My homestate of Hartford. :)

Picked this up at a local auction this morning. Jim Leyritz G/U bat. Same bat sold at a Heritage Auction in 2006.

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1910 Oversized Cubbie:D

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Mark, great acquisition on the Wachter's Parlor Base Ball. Just for accuracy's sake, it's more reliably ascribed to 1890-91,
and possibly predated by Nash Manufacturing's circa 1889 Base-Ball And Bagatelle. Not to take a single thing away from it --
it's a beauty, probably in the best condition of any of the few surviving examples of Wachter's.

Well, Tanks for Nuttin, Butch :mad: (anybody remember that irritating girlfriend in Caddyshack?)

I don't want it anymore. I was under the impression this was the oldest one. In his book, Dr. Cooper has Wachter's listed as being from 1888 and the far less attractive Nash Game from 1889. Are you saying Cooper is mistaken about this??? Can we just call it a tie between Wachter and Nash for oldest?

Seriously, I care lots more about its displayability and rarity than the exact date of manufacture. But appreciate the additional info. Interesting stuff :)

Jeez, sorry, Mark! We shoulda kept our mouths shut (or our fingers off the keyboard) -- it's a great piece no matter what.

Mark Cooper will readily admit there are errors in his 1994 volume -- it was a pioneering work with almost no prior sources
or available documentation on which to rely, so there was was a lot of guesstimation involved in putting a date to many pieces.
Over time, much has been corrected and many blanks filled in by collectors and members at our Baseball Games forum,
and a great deal of that new information is thanks to the ferocious research of Hall of Fame Senior Curator Tom Shieber,
who did an incredible amount of digging to get the details right for the Hall's 2008 exhibition of Dr Cooper's collection.
The patent for Wachter's was granted in March 1891, and the earliest advertisements so far found for it appear in October 1890.
The patent for the Nash Base-Ball And Bagatelle was granted in September 1889, but we haven't yet run across
any advertising for it.

That said, there's often a substantial gap between the granting of a patent and the actual production of a game -- sometimes
a couple of years, in a few instances decades. Advertisements are often a more reliable indicator than patent or copyright dates
of when a game was actually on the market. Without more documentation on the Nash game, there's no overwhelming reason
to think Wachter's didn't hit the market first and that you do in fact have a scarce example of the oldest baseball-themed
pinball/bagatelle game made.

Wow- that's some great history. Thanks for all of the background info! I am truly amazed and impressed that you are able to document it in such meticulous detail... great stuff.

Of course I was just kidding about being disappointed. It's fascinating to study and collect these relics from Baseball's infancy, and you guys are providing a great service to our community :)

Mike,
Incredible Cubs pennant

Hi again, Mark, thanks very much for the kind words! We really were concerned we'd thrown a wet blanket over your Wachter's
(creepy as that might sound) when we'd only wanted to get some more precise info out there for ya.

We'll add, in fact, for your edification, that Wachter was Henry Wachter, who designed and patented the game,
which was produced by the Columbus Engraving Co [Columbus, Ohio] under the "Columbus Parlor Base Ball Co" rubric
(all that info solely due to the amazing research of Tom Shieber).

By the way, Yahoo has recently all but crippled our forum, but we're transcribing the entirety of its nine-plus years
of research and discussion to a new host at a new location, hopefully ready and open for business by Christmas.
Our main site (linked in our sig) remains in place (but sorely in need of updating).

Love the site!

1895 baseball puzzle
 

Just got this delivered today. Bought it off Ebay. This is my second one I have bought. From the Thompson Novelty company in 1895 a baseball dexterity game called "The baseball puzzle and teacher".

Hey Butch what do you think of this one?

Got this today
 

1903 Pirates Supplement with a VERY young Honus Wagner :D

bravo!

Eight 2013 Lance Berkman game used bats:

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Always forget one...

Pudge Rodriguez game used Rangers bat