October Autogragh Pick Up Thread
 

2 fresh Tony Oliva autographs. This is the first time I have ever stood in line to get an autograph. Tony was very pleasant and instantly recognized the SGA card and asked how I got it and then asked about the Custom Rookie refractor. Being my first time and the fact that I had spent way more time talking to him than everybody else I skipped the photo with him. Now I wish I would have taken the extra 30 seconds for the photo.

A pair that arrived today.

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I got this at the end of last month, but just got it into my display. For a WWII collector, John Andre is quite the story. He was actually stationed in Pearl Harbor when the Japanese started bombing. He was injured and received a Purple Heart! Off the top of my head, I don't know of any other MLB players who were in PH that day, let alone got injured.

Nice pickup Ken!

Just added these two thanks to Jim Stinson :)

Closing in on 200.

got this autograph from a live auction on here for 6 bucks from mintacular, I figured if it wasn't real then it'd only be 6 bucks ( it matches some of the later certs I've seen from Stan). it was on a little piece of what looked like vanilla folder. so I decided to make a card for it.

The card I made is 5x4 inches and the auto is in a flimsy top loader cut to size. I then colorized the photo from 1941 and stuck it in a 1941 play ball design, Made the back and added details of where I got it from so I wouldn't forget. the card is rigid and feels like a card, just larger.

this is my second Musial autograph, the other being on a ball I got ttm years ago from Mr. Musial.

it fits perfectly in a 5x7 top loader


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Edit* i just noticed the typo on the back lol oh well

Just go back from psa. Rookie Aaron signature

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Great Rookie Aaron!

Excited to add this card to my 1957 set. Solly Drake is a very difficult autograph to attain. After he got done playing baseball he became a pastor in LA and basically left the game behind him. Doesn’t respond to autograph requests in the mail and has never done a public or private signing.


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A couple more that arrived the past two days. A signed RC I have been wanting to add, and as close to a playing day's issue as I'll get for a Hall of Famer.

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Thank you

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1936 Milwaukee & Kansas City team signed album page
 

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Like earlywynnfan, I also received this item last month. Just haven't had time to post it until now. Nothing earth shattering, and the pencil signatures are a tad on the light side. But pleased none the less.

Bought it mainly for the McNaughton signature, but all of the former Detroit Tigers are a nice bonus.

Great pick-ups Charlie! Nice bold Wahoo autograph that seem to be coming more scarce these days. I droll over some of the stuff Jim has for sale.

Curiosity got the best of me and I took a peek under this Zack Wheat postcard that was glued into a scrapbook I picked up over the weekend and it's signed "Buck Wheat". Anyone seen another instance of Wheat signing with his nickname?

Dan,
That Wheat signed RPPC is incredible. Very cool!

Dan that's amazing, and no, I have not seen him sign that way before.

Love the Wheat autograph. Have heard of the nickname but have never seen him sign that way .

Dan

The postcard is sweet, but next time you want to peek under something in a scrapbook let me help you so the item doesn't get damaged :)

Yeah...I probably should have taken a bit more time, but whatever glue was used I'm just glad it was only two small spots because it's like cement.

Vandy and Basketball HOF'er Benny Borgmann
 

I just picked up this sweet circa 1938 vintage signed photo of Johnny Vander Meer and Basketball HOF'er Benny Borgmann. Vandy and Borgmann both hailed from the same area in NJ and apparently knew each other quite well.

This photo originated from the personal estate of Benny Borgmann who starred in professional basketball and also played for many years as a baseball middle infielder and manager in the minor leagues.

Borgmann was also a pro basketball player and original Celtic, leading the American Basketball League in scoring 4 times (1926-1927, 1928-1929, 1929-1930, 1930-1931). He was elected to the Naismith Hall of Fame in 1961 Borgmann passed away in November, 1978.

Scott another great pickup.I enjoy watching you build your collection!

Dan, here are a few letters I have of Zach Wheat where he signed Buck. They were sent to his girlfriend Daisy Forsman who he married. In the last letter he talks about the Brooklyn Club playing an exhibition game in Newark N J. He hurt his ankle that spring and didn't play.

Wow, those are awesome! Thanks Kenny!

Thanks for sharing the Wheat letters .

Hi Dan!

Are the other player photos autographed on the back too?

The Al Burch has something written on it, but doesn't look like he signed it with his name. The anonymous player has nothing on the back of the card that I can tell.

Vander Meer
 

That photo is very cool in itself, but such a nice autograph to add just makes it even better!

Wheat had gorgeous penmanship!

Vander Meer
 

Thanks Steve & Mark! :)

A few recent pickups:

Vincent Richards - Was the most successful tennis player in a single Olympics with two gold medals and one silver medal in 1924. Unless mixed doubles is reintroduced this record will not be broken (Sorry Williams sisters). He also won 4 US National championships, one Wimbledon and one French Open all in doubles.

Jim Bausch - 1932 gold medal in the decathlon.

Philip Noel-Baker - the only person to win an Olympic medal (1920 1500m silver) and a Nobel Prize (1959 Peace).

Paavo Nurmi - one of the greatest long distance runners of all time. He won 9 gold medals and 3 silver medals mostly in the 5,000 m 10,000 m and cross country. This came with a group of identified U.S. track athletes listed as an unknown signature. A difficult signature to recognize if you have never seen it. Signed in 1940 in New York.

Just got thru the the mail
 

Receive this from HOF'er Mr. Gallatin TTM last Saturday. Probably some of the last signatures he did. I am appreciative to have received them. RIP Harry

Picked up five baseball last night signed by internet sensation Domingo Ayala.

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newbies
 

Added Three new signed books in last two days. very cool assortment, Prob be for sale on here soon :)

1. Jimmy Carter.

2. Legendary author of this Book, Jaws, the Deep , Island and more. the late Peter Benchley

3. Super nice Mark Bavaro.

Keep an eye out for the sale soon prob:o

Mike Burke signature
 

My latest pickup; a Mike Burke letter and signature. He ran the Yankees in the CBS years, and I think he was briefly a minority owner with Steinbrenner. He was also a counter-insurgent spy fighting the Nazis on D-Day in WWII, hung out regularly with Ernest Hemingway, and ran the Ringling Brothers Circus.
I think he is a pretty tough signature. Also, not particularly popular among Yankees fans, I think.

That was mine till I recently sold it at a CT show. ;)

Nice pick up Sean. His wife was a North and I have never heard a good thing about one of them.:D

At a CT show? Lol. Scott, I bought it from you right here on Net54! :)

Ben - Yeah, I heard those Norths are sketchy. Hehehehe...

just in
 

Just got these 2 Shaq's TTM yesterday.

1. Your use of currency as a TTM medium is interesting. Any particular reason why?

2. I couldn't tell you based on the signature, but there is speculation that Shaq's father and other family members have been ghost signing his TTM mail for the past couple of years. I do know most of the Shaq submissions in the past few bulk subs I have been a part of were labeled questionable. You never know though..

I choose the currency because it is inexpensive and different. there are so many diff types and I just think it looks cool. I would be open to listening to others who have submitted Shaq TTM's and came back questionable.

wow. serious creeping scenility.:eek::p

Just picked up this book signed by U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers. (The American spy exchangee in "Bridge of Spies.")

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Started on a historiography about Powers a couple semesters ago but couldn't fish out a story that already hadn't been told so went a different direction. Great pick up David, thanks for sharing.

Charles "Cy" Rigler-

Purchased this prior to the HOF finalist list coming out as a rider, probably the next umpire to be elected to the HOF. Credited for being the first umpire to use hand signals and yelling strike calls, not to mention umpiring the first All Star Game and 10 World Series. Purchased from a fellow board member.

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Great Rigler autograph. A scarce signature and a great addition to your impressive collection as well as a good gamble on a future HOFer.

Picked up this great Franklin Pierce letter signed in 1845...

October Autogragh Pick Up Thread
 

Been a while, small upgrade until I can get a '33 Goudey.

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Brent-

One of the best Ott auto'd card I've seen. Gorgeous!

Neither is perfect, but glad to add two more to the collection
Ken

Sweet Mack!

Thank you! Love how bold the signature is.


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Three recent purchases. All of which will be available shorty.

April 1951 Vin Scully GPC

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Interesting Burleigh Grimes signed commemorative plate

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The single best Babe Dahlgren single signed ball I have ever seen. Snow white ball and full name.

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Tom C

Unlike most of what I buy, this one will NOT be available for sale.

Rube Marquard's copy of The Glory Of Their Times signed by Larry Ritter.

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Tom C

Another signed book I lucked out finding. Pretty cool IMO. May be for sale soon:)

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I just picked up this Claude Berry. Interesting that he says he caught the game for the Seals when they played the longest game on the West Coast against the Oaks, Oaks win 1 to 0. From what I can find, that game was on June 4th, 1916, and he wasn't with either club then. Am I looking at the right game? Anybody know something I don't? I'm not really a big autograph collector, but I thought it was a cool addition to my PCL collection.

Handful of pickups from here, there, and everywhere:

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The Variety of stuff people get is fantastic :)

From a few google queries I did, appears that 24 inning game was June 8, 1909, and Berry was on SF then.

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On June 8, at Oakland’s Freeman Park, Henley pitched the longest shutout in PCL history, besting Jimmy Wiggs 1-0 in 24 innings.

Ah, thanks! I was looking at the game that was part of a double header that ended up going 28 innings between the two games. One also ended 1-0, except with Oaks winning. So it was Henley that he was trying to write on this card. It looked like he wrote Hemming, and that was really messing me up.

October pick up
 

I was very happy to pick up my first 2 vintage playing day Cobb sigs today at the post office. From the research I have done, it appears that the letter and cut were obtained between 1905-1915 (with an educated guess, leaning closer to circa 1910-1914). The manager of the hotel listed on the stationary worked at the Brunswick from the mid-1890's until 1914 when he retired, and passed away in 1915. On the PSA site, the full name cobb sig compares favorably to the 1912 exemplar. I will most likely keep the cut for myself, and sell the letter to another collector to help finance the purchase.

I have enjoyed digging into the history both of Cobb and the Brunswick Hotel in the process (A little did you know...In the early 20's when Mickey Cochrane was still at Boston U., he worked across the street from the Brunswick cleaning dishes, and would see the Yankees and other major leaguers sitting on the Brunswick hotel steps. In the book The Hall, he was quoted as saying,"See those lucky stiffs on the Brunswick steps?...some day I am going to sit over there and look over here and watch other guys washing cups and saucers, knives, and forks. Yes, sir. I have made up my mind I am going to be a big leaguer myself."

Those Cobbs are absolutely exquisite.

Tom C

I think it says '24 inning game', not Henley or Hemming (though the 4 does look like an H somewhat).

Glad I was able to provide some small assistance.

Even better! I thought it said G Hemming. You really can read 1909!

Been a good month, Just added a really nice James Lavender and Hippo Vaughn for my 1916 Cubs autograph set. Even more importantly, I just bought oneof the nicest space items Ive ever seen. a Gemini litho signed by 13 ofthe 16 Gemini astronauts including Neil Armstrong, Ed White, Gus Grissom, John Young, Charles Conrad, etc. 6 moonwalkers and 2/3rds of the Apollo 1 crew that we re killed. I'm going to had Richard Gordon to it next week at Space Rendezvous and hopefully get James McDivitt at space fest in June. This was featured on Pawn Stars and Rick got a hell of a deal for it. I did nearly as good

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Great find
 

I really like that Hippo Vaughn! Nice pick up!

Absolutely beautiful pieces. Congratulations on the pick ups.

A Circa 1964 John Lennon Autograph
 

Very happy to pick this up!!!

You got that sir? CONGRATS. Awesome piece

For sale soon: The Merry MEX:)

My near complete Panini on the record card set autographed. Im just missing the Carl and the passions card and only missing Ricky Fataar as I have all the other Beach Boys. Some came out kinda sloppy, I probably should have left it at one autograph per card. oh well
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That astronauts piece is cool

Mike

Astronaut autographed photo
 

The astronaut piece looks like the one on Pawn Stars, the episode with the Senator's chair.

It's one and the same and I got it for nearly as good of a deal :)