May pickups
 

I just received this scorebook from the Walter Johnson Memorial unveiling in 1947. The scorebook has some terrific content on WaJo's career in baseball.

This is a nice compliment to a ticket from the same game that I bought a few years ago...

Baseball Trophy Cup
 

Picked up this beauty on eBay, it is kind of hard to see but pitcher is etched into the side. I believe this is from 1902 and made by Meridan. The inscription reads "Presented to Edwin Werk by the Anti-Knocking Club"

Any help on this would be appreciated.

"Any help on this would be appreciated..."

Bob:
The only "help" I can offer would be to take it off your hands.... though I doubt that would really be appreciated ;)

Congrats on the gorgeous acquisition!

Nice pitcher. It reminds me of Indiana Jones when the bad guy "Chose....Poorly"

Ha ha, the holy baseball grail or is it the holy grail of baseball?

A Few More Photos
 

Frankie Frisch and Dashing Dazzy Vance 1934 World Series

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"Ducky" Medwick1935

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Pepper Martin "chawing" down

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Nice shoot'n there Bob...nice trophy congrats!

Had to pick up this WWII photo. It's Luke Sewell batting during a USO trip in Burma in 1945. It matches perfectly with the ball I have from this trip that was signed by Luke!

Ken

Sweet, Ken! Perfect compliment to the ball...

My second signed postcard to go with the Ruth I already have. Thought this was cool even though the conditions is rougher than I normally like. I'll have it certified once I get it but it has 100% money back guarantee with it. Just in case.

FWIW, as far as the RPPC itself, all looks correct for it being an original produced by George Burke. Quite a bit tougher to find them in the 3-1/2"x5-1/2" size with pre-printed postcard back than his usual 4"x6" size. (The opposite is true for his successor, George Brace, who produced RPPC's in abundance).

Thanks for the info.

I have no idea what size this is actually. I saw another one on eBay that the crop looks a bit different but that really means nothing on overall size. I just knew it was a Burke on an AZO 1926-40's RPPC. Just thought it was cool and figured it was from his playing days. As for the signature I have no idea if its real as it looks totally different than most of the signatures I've seen from him.

2004-08 Pudge Rodriguez game used bat
2001 Rickey Henderson game used bat

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Nate, how many bats do you have? Are you a hoarder? :p

Bats are addicting (or addictive?). I purchased my first vintage one and before I knew it, there were ten leaning against the wall in the corner. Then there were fifteen. Then I sold all but one to protect myself.

(In that last sentence there should be a comma after "one", but I liked the accidental double entendra.)

I have close to 800 bats, and you better believe it's an addiction! At least they're mostly vintage.

Another HOF snapshot for my collection! Very excited to add this!

Al Kaline June 18, 1960 Father & Son Game
Maybe Al Kaline son?

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Bill russell pre-rookie photo
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1920's D&M glove
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Teddy
 

Beautiful Ted Brad! I saw this one at the Shriner's show a few months back and almost grabbed it... Great image with a super nice signature... Congratulations on a wonderful addition to your collection!

Photo
 

A very nice photo

SWEET! Very nice, Bob!

Wow! What's the size on that beauty Bob?

Thanks Chris, that is one of the great things about this, it is 8 x 10

For Sure! Now find me a Reds one;)

Vander Meer Holy Grail pickup now off the list
 

I finally was able to cross one of my holy grail items off the list last week. :)
Here is a scored game used scorebook from Johnny Vander Meer's 2nd consecutive no-hitter on June 15, 1938 at Ebbets Field.

Vandy's back-to-back no hitters are considered to be one of the most unassailable records in baseball.

Great pick up Scott!! How long have you been looking for one?

For between 10-15 years.

Great pickup Scott. Nice to cross something like that off your list.

I added another Kansas World Tour item to my collection. The neat thing is this ball park is still there and being used.

Wow Wow Wow.
Congrats Scott. Do you have the first one as well?

Thanks Clint and Mark.
I do not have a scored program from Vandy's 1st no-hitter, Mark.
I'm still looking. I know of at least one or two in the hobby. I saw one of them up close on display at the Reds Museum in Cincinnati earlier this year....

Honus Wagner Cigar Band Proof
 

This came today, Ex-Dreier Collection

That's fantastic Scott, congrats.

Doug

Congratulations Scott! That is an awesome pickup.

Thanks Doug and Jack!

No-Hiitter pitchers thru July 22, 1920
 

Here's something you should enjoy, Scott.
I picked up a few Mid-Week pictorials with nice baseball content a couple of weekends ago in an antique shop. This was among them. It is dated July 22, 1920.

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Nice! Thanks for posting pictures.

Mickey Mantle pick-ups
 

Picked up these Mickey Mantle photos this week and the article two weeks ago.

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This next thing is ugly...I don't know what the guy was thinking when he framed it, but I'm glad he saved it.

Dated April 16, 1951 from the Newark (NJ) Star-Ledger. It reads in part: Mickey Mantle, sensational New York Yankee rookie,
celebrated his promotion to the varsity yesterday by banging out a home run and three singles.

It was an exhibition game against the Dodgers at Ebbets Field, but it was his first game as a major leaguer, in a major league stadium.

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I don't even consider myself a bat collector and I have accumulated about 50 of them. Most are game used from the local minor league team 1947-present.

Very nice postcard, Clint! Congrats!

Picked up a hoard of stuff from one single garage sale yesterday...about 800-1000 1952-59 baseball cards...overall in excellent to mint condition. Super Bowl 1 and 3 programs, 1948 Army v Navy Program, 1933 Nebraska v Oklahoma football program, other misc programs...a shoebox full of 1960-70 Topps football, basketball and baseball cards....and about 100 snapshot photos from the 1980s of Kansas City Royals games. My brother found the sale and texted me to hit an ATM and get my butt over to the sale he was at ASAP. :D

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Wow! What a haul!!

That's amazing Dan! You might want to share this on the card side of the board too -- card collectors dream of a find like this!

Greg

Flock on top
 

When's the last time any of you saw the Dodgers referred to as "the flock" (as in Robins)?
Terrific historical content in that paper but agreed that the frame job is sorely lacking.

Gamer
 

Went to a flea market today and actually found something! It's been awhile coming. A 1965-69 Jim Hickman gamer. 34.5 inches in length---33.4 oz.---Model is a T115.

why don't I ever find anything cool like that stuff? First lot prob was way too much, Hickman bat I woulda grabbed

Super haul Dan. I love finds like that...well, reading about them. I am only just a little bit more happy for you than I am jealous of you. Your brother is the man.

Cincinnati Redlegs Uniform
 

Just picked this up last night; 1959 Willard Schmidt road jersey with 1958 Smoky Burgess pants. This is the last style of Redlegs vest I needed (1956-1966).

Still looking for a 1955 home or road Cincinnati jersey with either style patch (square or contour) and have hundreds of flannels and jackets (all teams) available to trade for one.

Dave Grob
DaveGrob1@aol.com

Congrats Dave! :)

From Heritage Auction.

Very nice Dave -- love the old flannels!

Greg

As a pin collector, this is one of my favorite pickups in years -- a 1922-23 Kolb's wall-hanging advertising piece. It's a companion piece to the Kolb's pin set. 7 inches wide. Just got it today.

Nice pickup, Greg! It's in great shape too!

Awesome piece Greg! I was wondering who ended up with that beauty!

First Federal League Item
 

My only REA win this year. This is my first non autographed piece of memorabilia to add to my collection and its provided me with a new collecting focus of Federal League related items.

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Notated as "baseball at the Gunnery" circa 1865. It's difficult to see from my scan, but the CdV shows a pitcher in the center and a batter on the far right.

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Flea market find, Joe Dimaggio mitt. This has to be one of his earliest. Sorry for the bad picture.

yankee ballantine display
 

Just got off ebay 1954 yankees ballantine display plaque to go with my yankee silver tray commemorating 5 consecutive world series. good shape not warped as these are normally found. A little elbow grease and 409 cleaner cleaned off all the stains.

Nice Kevin!

I just completed a trade with fellow board member Randall Hahn.
Here is a ticket stub from HOF'er Rube Waddell's record setting 1904 season in which he struck out 349 batters. Rube was the winning pitcher in the game played on June 25, 1904 at Philadelphia. The A's bested the Washington Senators 6-3.

Waddell owned the major league record for single season strikeouts until Sandy Koufax passed him with 382K's in 1965. Nolan Ryan since set the modern standard of 383K's in 1973.

Thanks Randall! ;) :)

Disclaimer: I don't own this RPPC of Rube and Matty, but I love the image!

Awesome piece, Scott. And that postcard is unreeeaalll.

Graig

not sports, forgive me Leon:), just LOVE this. ICONIC image everyone knows. Not sure when I saw it in the old crap frame how old. Then, saw this when sliding off frame backing. So, that makes it 50 plus at least;)

IMO, pretty cool, photo has very light AP Stamping. prob a 60s souvenir, but I love it.:)

Much cooler than you described!!!

Agreed. It couldn't have been out for long. I really do love it, and what it means to all of us..

1993-97 Wade Boggs game used Yankees bat.

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early Phila tickets
 

I've recently picked up some similar Philadelphia Athletics tickets and comparing the writing on it with Scott's, they appears to be from the same source. I've seen other Athletics and Phillies tickets with similar writing from various sellers on Ebay and other auction sites and was wondering if anyone had any information about their origin. Was a big cache of Philadelphia tickets recently found or have these been circulating for a while? I'm just curious how these things managed to survive. Thanks - Ed

Of course, all six were not--as the affixed label mistakenly states--KIA. Ira Hayes, John Bradley, and Rene Gagnon survived the war.

Here's a FDC from my collection that was signed by them postwar (most likely at the dedication of the USMC memorial at Arlington Cemetery):

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Hi Ed,
Actually, I can help.
These tickets originated from a large collection of early Philadelphia Athletics and Philadelphia Phillies tickets of games that were attended by one Philadelphia fan. This collection first entered the hobby in the early 1990's and were purchased by George Kennigsberg (sp?) who at the time owned and operated the Monterey Bay Sports Museum in Northern California.

All of these tickets had the year and score written on the front in pencil which was later overwritten with vintage steel-tipped black fountain pen by the patron.

It's interesting to note that many teams did not issue tickets with dates (year) making it challenging to determine exact vintage. The other thing which is noteworthy about this collection was that the patron carefully pasted these into a scrapbook preserving their condition. All of the tickets were expertly removed from the scrapbook. Some have lined paper remnants, while others are fairly free of paper.

Overall, great early baseball collectibles. I do recall seeing a couple of these tickets from early Babe Ruth pitched games, although he was not the winner in either game. I regret not buying these, FWIW...

I hope this helps.

Great information, Scott. Exactly what I was looking for. There is some glue residue on some of them so I guessed they were taken from a scrapbook. Thanks again - Ed

well, the owner should have done his research. At least it dates it. Nice FDC too for sure.

Hi Ed,
I'm not sure if you did the research to determine what happened in each of the games that your tickets were from?

The second ticket from the top is of particular note.

On 9/25/09 the A's and Cleveland played a doubleheader. In the 1st game, HOF Eddie Plank was the winning pitcher (shutout). The second game featured a terrific pitchers duel between HOF Addie Joss and HOF Chief Bender. Bender and the A's prevailed, shutting out CLE 3-0.

Neat ticket! :cool:

Great cdv, Gary! Is the photographer/location of studio identified on the back? I always hope so when I encounter an early photo.

Charles

Thanks! I do have some accounts and the boxscores from each of the games. In the clipping I have about that 1909 doubleheader it has Bender beating Joss 5-0 (with CLE making 6 errors) in the first game and Morgan beating Falkenberg 3-0 in the second game. I'll try to attach it and hope it's readable.

In the other games:
5/2/1908, the A's scored two runs on Boston errors in the 3rd, Dygert with the win, Winters, the loss.
8/20/10 Chief Bender beats Irv Young
5/30/11 Harry Krause shuts out Lew Brockett and the Highlanders.
9/6/13 Bob Shawkey beats Fred Anderson, Collins and Baker score 3 runs each and Tris Speaker goes 3 for 4.

Ed,
Looks like you are on it.
FYI, when you posted the photo of your tickets, I was curious what happened in each of the games. 3-0 score was a typo. I meant to say 5-0.

BTW, originating of the same Philadelphia collection I own a win ticket stub for each of these early HOF pitchers:

Addie Joss- 1909 (LP Chief Bender- Game 1) Game 2- Cy Young LP
Eddie Plank
Christy Mathewson-1910 (Win # 242)- vs. Phillies
Rube Marquard- 1912 vs. Phillies
Rube Waddell- 1904 vs. Wash

I picked these up at different times over the last 20 years...

Great stuff!

Thanks, Charles. The photographer is E R Smith from E Hampton Ma.

I attended the Cubs/ Yankees game Wednesday afternoon at Wrigley. There's a table & showcase set up inside the park with game used stuff, signed memorabilia by Banks, Williams, Jenkins etc... They also sell old line up cards that the are taped up in the dug out. I noticed one set off to the side, it was the Cubs vs Yankees from Yankee Stadium from April 6th, asked the price and bought it. There's only one for each dugout. I asked about the lineup cards from the games played at Wrigley (2), they're going to auction starting at $500 I was told.

1944 Marines Baseball Photo Pearl Harbor Hodges?
 

Picked up this photo of the Marine baseball team at Pearl Harbor in 1944. I know Gil Hodges was stationed there in that time frame, and the player in the back row, 2nd from left looks like him. Any thoughts?

Great photo, but that's not Gil -- way too short for one thing.

Greg

+1 This marine is too small in stature to be Gil Hodges.