January Pickups
 

I couldn't resist the opportunity to start the first memorabilia pickup thread of the new year! I picked up this original photo in the most recent Henry Yee auction. I placed a bid knowing that I wouldn't get it and was pleasantly surprised to learn I won it.:)

Great photo! Congrats

Happy New Year everyone!
 

Visiting friends and family this past week in Vancouver BC and stopped into a large used bookstore downtown today on my way to the airport - pleased to have found this 1932 Portland Beavers PCL pennant winners "program". Filled with player photos and bios.

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Catcher figural business card holder
 

Picked up this neat little catcher figural business card holder that uses the same catcher figure that my trophy topper uses.


Patrick

Picked this up a little while ago but just got it. I enjoy having Ott and Hubbell on the same panel

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Koufax batting
 

Very large photo 11" x 17" that looks far more impressive in person

Very nice

Bob,
That's a great and very unusual photo of Sandy batting.
I never realized that Sandy swung the bat from the right side and he actually looks like he knows what he's doing. ;)
Thanks for sharing!

This baby was #2 on my Holy Grail of pinbacks and I finally found one! This ends an at least two month drought of not finding anything. I guess that's what keeps us going.

Cool pinback, Rob! Congrats!

Rob you are a liar! I know what that is, that's Timmy's guitar pick : )

Ya damn groupie!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86D8B8iwzdM

That is pure awesomeness! I will be sharing!

Clemente
 

That's a VERY COOL photo. I really like the photo's of how low budget they went back in the day when it came to an award ceremony.

Giants Pin
 

Now that is NICE pin... No wonder it was one of your Holy Grail items. Congrats!

January oddball Vander Meer pickups
 

I finally was able to add two neat 1939 oddball Vander Meer items to my collection:

The back panel of a 1939 Huskies Cereal that features Johnny Vander Meer on how to pitch and "develop Winning Form on the mound". :)
Vander Meer's "Double No-Hit" success allowed him to add some promotional endorsements in the off season including one with Huskies Cereal.

A neat vintage Harvard Brewing Co. poster that features Vandy amongst other current events from the 1938 season in the east coast. These were called "Harvard Brews Picture News" and originated from Lowell, Mass. Dimensions of the poster are 19" x 23".

Tho not specifically a baseball piece, kinda cool in that the man has a Baseball connection.
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1896 Morgan Buckley pin (maybe for sale soon;))

Scott and Scott - great stuff!! Scott Garner's ability to keep finding Vander Meer stuff never ceases to amaze me!

Thanks Rob! ;) :)

Another Large Piece
 

I am quickly running out of room, this is 30" x 40"

It's not a terrible problem to have. :D

True Rob, very true :)

It can be
 

I wanted to move into my first house (city boy) containing no windows and a stairway so I could hang a few things. My wife chose one with all windows and no stairway. I have over 200 hanging pieces and 10+ showcases. My wife hates me.......

January additions
 

I picked up these cool 1965 Milwaukee Braves promo bats for my Joe Torre collection.
I also bought this Joe DiMaggio photo from the Mears auction, thinking I was getting a vintage 1934-36 photo of him in the PCL. What I got was this RIDICULOUS poster sized photo of Joe D.
I have no idea where I am going to put it.

You could use the RIDICULOUS poster to wrap around the beautiful ED Mathews bat to help protect it during shipping. Expensive packing material but for a good cause.:D;)

I added the Ed Mathews bat to my collection. Thanks Sean.:)

I can't say this is a pick up but I saw one of these on ebay, an original I assume (http://www.ebay.com/itm/Country-Stor...4AAOSwmrlUtLaU). I decided to make my own with a twist. I made mine into a storage box for my flats. Looks like the original box but turn it around and it has 5 pull out drawers. Tip Tops are my favorite cards so I think it's pretty neat.

NICE JOB, looks really cool:)

1908 lithograph titled 'Three Men on Base' by Edward Penfield. This image originally was in the Colliers Weekly from April 26, 1902. Six years later it was made available by Colliers although I don't know the exact purpose. In 1911, it would also serve as the cover for the Book of Baseball.

The second item is a Daily Graphic woodcut from 1873 showing a very young Cap Anson. I believe this is the earliest woodcut of Anson but could be wrong.

Congrats
 

Like!

Lelands
 

I picked this up last night in Lelands but was outbid on several others that I would have preferred to have

1982 Rick Ownbey Mets game used alternate batting practice jersey, these are extremely hard to find, I've been looking for one for 20 years. was very happy to pay $100.

Picked up thus autographed Juan Marichal poster. Anybody have any info about it?

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Picked up this banner from Brett's Hall of Fame induction. These flew Downtown in KC and are very hard to find. Three feet wide by four and a half feet long. Sorry about the crappy picture. George has always been a very big supporter of ALS. Its a neat picture of him and Gehrig together.

Just a little thing, but IMO cool. 1962 Photo of Jackie w some kids playing a board game

Picked up some boxing cards this past weekend. First cards purchase, the hunt is what is most exciting for me. Happy to be aboard.

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Was very close to bidding on that...great pick-up

Like the Anson woodcut, George. I had that one at one time, the black and white version though, not colorized. Mine was in really rough shape though.......

Scott nice Jackie photo and that is a great Ruth photo as well Joey.

Thanks Phil! This one was clearly colorized at a much later date.

1911 NYC trolley transfer with Giants advertising:

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And- can't say I collect much Federal League (or Jacklitsch), but I really like the clarity of this image + sweater, socks, etc.:

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A couple of pick ups from this month:

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Niiiiice additions Randall! I love the pin:)

+1 Randall !

BEAUTIFUL Photo sir. Congrats!!:)

19th century baseball
 

Nice early heavy stitched 1890s figure 8 baseball

Gorgeous Ball also. Man, I love these pickup threads;)

That is one loooong ribbon! How long is it?

Picked up a variation of the Giants 1964 calendar. I still have some holes to fill but don't ever plan on forking out what the 1958's go for. Well.....never say never.

Thanks buddy

Added this pin today. I think of it as a Pirates pin because that is where Earl spent most of his career.


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Hi Mike,
FYI, I own this pinback as well because of Earl Hamilton's no-hitter connection.
I believe if you do your research on Hamilton you will find that he owned a minor league baseball team after his playing career if I remember correctly, thus the inscription on the pinback.

Great info Scott, and I'm sure that's what the pin is "about". I noticed he played one year for my Tigers as well. I like the obscure oddball nature of it:D:D

Nice calendar, Rob. What makes the 1958 so expensive? First year in San Fran.?

Calendars
 

"Really" like the '64 calendar variation pickup and thanks for sharing the other years as well. I'd love to have some of the older O's calendars (if there even is some?!?); would make for a cool display. Do you have a pic of the '58? Also, I would be curious as well as the going price of the '58 if you can locate one.

One question; how do you even know that these calendars are out there as well as knowing there are variations?

My buddy sent a picture of his 1958 (flatten that thing out, already!!!). He paid $450 for it. To my knowledge, it is the only one to hang "diagonally" and not be orange and white. Mack-Newman or Nadel-Newman put these out from 1958-1970. I think my buddy has almost the complete run. We only know of variations when one pops up.

I guess this is kinda half Card and half memorabilia. :) Not in the best shape, but LOVE This. Hoping to keep it for now.

That's nice Scott!!

yeah, Full boxes sure aren't common. thanks. btw, you interested in my Reese Rookie Wheaties panel? message me if u r for a discount:)

Well, it is not DiMaggio or Torre...
 

But at least it is a guy named Joe!

Joe Girardi game used bat from his days with the Rockies.

Not sure what the tape is at the bottom, looks like band-aid bandage wrap. Maybe this was his BP bat? Not sure if you can have that on your bat in a game.

Allie Reynolds game ball from the day of his 2nd no-hitter in 1951
 

Here is a neat recent pickup.
This is a game ball from the doubleheader played on 9/28/1951 at NYY.

In the first game of the D/H, Yankee's hurler "Superchief" Allie Reynolds pitched his way into the record books by throwing his second career no-hitter against the Boston Red Sox. At this point in history, only Johnny Vander Meer had accomplished this feat. 64 years later there still are only 6 pitchers in major league history to complete this feat: Vandy, Allie Reynolds, Virgil Trucks, Nolan Ryan, Roy Halladay and Max Scherzer.

This is actually a foul ball that was retrieved by a fan in the 2nd game of the 9/28/51 D/H off the bat of the visiting Red Sox's Charlie Maxwell. Of note, in the second game, Yankee's Joe DiMaggio homered for the final time in his HOF career with the Bronx Bombers.The patron, sensing the history of the D/H, had Allie Reynolds sign the ball and he added the following additional notations to complete the provenance for the ball.
I couldn't resist the temptation to add this ball to my no-hit pitcher collection.
While the ball was not retrieved from the actual no-hit game, it's definitely about as close as you could get for a vintage game ball. :)

Extra Innings:
Allie Reynolds pitched 13 total seasons for the Cleveland Indians and NY Yankees. He had a win loss record of 182-107 and career ERA of 3.30.
During his 9 year run with the Yankees he was absolute money.
In the World Series he was 7-2 in the games that he got a decision in the 15 games that he appeared in. In the 1949 WS he had an ERA of 0.00; in 1950 he had a WS ERA of 0.79.
Although he was never inducted into the HOF he was a fan favorite, including many that lobbied hard for his inclusion into the HOF.

1933 Eagles Ticket
 

I was excited to add this 1933 Eagles ticket to my collection today.

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Hi Scott,

Quick question about the '67 pin back -- have you found background info linking it to Allie Reynolds?

Greg

Hi Greg,
Happy New Year!
The person that sold this to me on eBay a few years ago indicated that the pin originated from a HOF vote in '67 for Allie Reynolds.
At the time I didn't question it because this was at the point that Allie Reynolds received his highest percentage vote in his quest to enter the HOF.

This HOF excerpt is from Wikipedia on Allie Reynolds:

Baseball Hall of Fame candidacy

"When Reynolds was eligible for election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers' Association of America, his highest vote percentage was 33.6% in the 1968 balloting, short of the 75 percent required for election.[21] That year, he finished ahead of future Hall of Famers Arky Vaughan, Pee Wee Reese, Phil Rizzuto, George Kell, Hal Newhouser, Bob Lemon, and Bobby Doerr.

Reynolds was named as one of the ten former players that began their careers before 1943 to be considered by the Hall of Fame's Veterans Committee for induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2009.[40] He received eight votes, one shy of the nine votes required for election.[21] Reynolds was on the new Golden Era Committee ballot in 2011 for 2012, (replaced the Veterans Committee)[21] receiving fewer than three votes (12 votes are required for election to the Hall of Fame).[41] The Committee meets and votes every three years on ten candidates selected from the 1947 to 1972 era. He was not a candidate in 2014 (none were elected by the committee).

Rob Neyer, in evaluating Reynolds' candidacy, believes Reynolds was "probably as good" as Jesse Haines, Lefty Gomez and Waite Hoyt, who have all been inducted into the Hall of Fame. However, he added that "they’re all marginals."[21] Adapting Bill James' sabermetric statistic known as win shares, Dr. Michael Hoban, a professor emeritus of mathematics at City University of New York, found that Reynolds falls short of his threshold for induction, and scored lower than Haines and Gomez.[21]"

Thanks Scott -- HOF voting has always been tough to figure.

I saw that pin back once and assumed it referred to NY Giants coach Allie Sherman -- good to know it's actually a baseball pin.


Greg

Added some WWII service team jerseys in the last few months. The dark one is denim blue with grey letters, looks awesome in person.

Ken

Cant' find a non sport pickup. but like this, some of it cut off scanner. George Harrison/Ravi Shankar 1974 Tour program. HARE KRISNA (Maybe for sale soon)

So, this calendar had just been on ebay. My fellow Giants collecting buddy really wanted it so I stayed away and he got it for minimum ($30). The seller puts another one up and I, of course, come in third when the second one goes for $93 two weeks later.

Just like Leo said (sort of) -- Nice guys finish third!

Greg

Picked up a presentational watch given to Willie Upshaw by the Blue Jays. On the back it is engraved "Willie Upshaw 10 Years". I am not sure if it was given to him for 10 years of service or to celebrate 10 years of the Blue Jays being in MLB.

Could only find one other at auction given to Hector Torres who played for the Jays in 1977 and was a manager in their minors system in 85-86, which would have been the Blue Jays 10th season.

http://www.legendaryauctions.com/mob...sentation_watc

If any body has any info, I would appreciate it.

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bf3 premium
 

Just picked up another 1936-8 BF3 premium pennant.

Very nice! Congrats!

Cleveland Stadium Banner
 

Although it's from the other end of the state from my beloved Cincinnati, just a wonderful display piece.

Dave Grob

Wow...

+1 ... Awesome

Finally (!!) got a 1968 Blues vintage bobblehead - the more rare gold version at that. Still need the blue sweater version, though.

Who is that player, or is it just a facsimile?