May Pickups
 

We can't go another month without an official pickup thread! Here is an interesting framed 1909 print/poem that I picked up. It has a small version of a more common Kline print combined with a "baseball-ized" version of a popular poem from the time. Anyone else come across this before?


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1875 silver trophy ball from Franklin Co NY. Donated by Father Ryan to the Athletic BBC of Brush's Mills NY on August 6, 1875 to commemorate the O'Connell centenary. O'Connell was a well known champion of Irish Catholics, I believe.
The scan is poor, but the ball is nice.

Awesome trophy ball Gary!

Yeah, the scan makes it look like a trailer ball hitch. :p

Someday I'll get rid of my flip phone and take some real pictures!

Don't do it! :D

Stoked to add another Jackie Robinson Story photo.
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My Awesome May pickup
 

I got this awesome bat from the mailman yesterday.

I don't often acquire the really old stuff; this might be one of my all-time favorite pickups. I am very excited to put this in the baseball room.

Picked up a few more St. Paul Saints bats...

Pinky Hargrave, who was on their 1920 team with his brother Bubbles Hargrave:

Two more 1930s St. Paul Saints, Clyde Beck and Phil Todt:

Is that the Todt bat I sold you, or you find another one?

Picked up this photo from 1919 featuring an African American baseball team facing a white baseball team.

Picked up this Zach Wheat photo. Thanks Jeff.

19th Century Cabinet Card.....
 

I picked this cabinet card up last week. The mask is pre-weld and it looks like there's a pair of gloves on the ground, one which is 'fingerless'. I'm guessing 1890-ish? Let me know if you think different. Thanks.......Matt

The one glove is a fingertip and the other is a fingerless glove I would say the image is 1880s to 1890

Great old Kren bat. Nice pickup !

1972 Mets road jersey, worn by Pitcher Danny Frisella, first year of double knit.

Dodgers
 

Schaffer Beer advertisement. This is a very condition sensitive piece and one of the nicest I have ever seen. None of the heads are missing or bent. Even the back is intact.

I always love seeing those. Such a cool item.

Agreed. Great condition, Bob.

That is by far the nicest Schaffer I've ever seen.

Agreed. It is incredible.

Just got these nice photos from Bicem. Thanks Jeff!

• 1918 Rube Marquard Type I Photograph (6.5" x 8.5") Culver Pictures Inc. Stamp
• 1934 Lefty Gomez Type I Photograph (6.5" x 8.5") WM C. Greene Stamp / Property Of The Sporting News
• 1940 Charlie Gehringer Type I Photograph (6" x 8") Philadelphia Enquirer Stamp

Thought these were pretty cool. Picked them up today. The ones on the ends are cast iron banks and the Ruth in the middle is a door stop.

A recent 1971 Pirate addition to my collection

Great pickup Mike. That will go great with your Pirates collection.

Very nice, Mike! :cool:

Very nice, Mike. It's gotta be great to find something new that fits your one year focus.

BTW - I have a snipe set for something I've sought for 25 years. :cool:

Thanks Rob and good luck with your item!

I managed to get the early NY Giants ticket lot in the recent REA auction, this era NYG being my main focus it was great to add 5 tix at once...hard enough doing it one at a time. But the gem of the lot, not really remarked upon it the lot description, is this stub from July 19, 1902...NY vs the Phillies at the Polo Grounds. This year/month was a watershed moment for baseball culminating in John McGraw leaving Baltimore in the AL and signing to be manager/player with the NL Giants. This game, July 19th, was his first as manager of the Giants. Coming with him from Baltimore were Joe McGinnity, Roger Bresnahan, Dan McGann, and Jack Cronin. On the 19th McGraw played shortstop, McGinnity pitched, Bresnahan caught, and McGann was at 1b...all playing their first games as Giants. If you had asked me what early NYG ticket I'd most like to have, this would have been it but I'd never have believed it even a remote possibility. But here it is. Remarkable that it's a printed-date ticket as well.

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Awesome pickup Ray! As a Matty and early Giants collector, I love it. Nice!!

Thanks Paul!

Wow! So tough to find a dated ticket from that era let alone one with significance!

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Such a beauty ticket. I had to check the box score to see if Luther "Dummy" Taylor pitched that game but didn't see any game played on July 19, 1902.

https://www.baseball-reference.com/t...e-scores.shtml

Game got postponed?

How much did it cost you? I would love to obtain Taylor's game played tickets.

Best,
Danny

Hey Danny,

The game was played on the 19th as scheduled. Joe McGinnity lost to the Phillies 3-4 in his first start in a Giants uniform.

Good luck (sincerely!) finding a ticket from a Taylor pitched game. Pre-1910 regular season tickets are tough enough, and finding one dated and 100% attributable to a specific game/pitcher/event is generally impossible. But this 1902 stub proves the odd impossible thing does turn up, so...

Remarkable find, Ray! Congrats to you on this great addition to your collection. Very cool! :cool:

Here's a boxscore from that game. Bottom right of the page. I love the comments, " The new manager and the Baltimore recruits"!

http://library.la84.org/SportsLibrar.../SL3919008.pdf

Thanks Scott!...

...and thanks for the SL link, Paul. Most news accounts had the crowd at the Polo Grounds at numbers above 10,000. The game was a huge deal in NY. 1902 was a pretty interesting year in baseball, with the events leading up to July 19th reshaping and defining the leagues going forward, setting the stage for an AL team in New York, etc.

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I'd love to see (buy) more Chase notes if anyone has one.

Hey Jeff,

very cool note!
Great pick up, congrats.

Nice Prince Hal.

Thanks, guys!

Bringing it to Oklahoma, home of the Cherokee Nation

Love it! Just keep it safe during storm season! :D

Awesome, Michael. What a special piece. Congrats.

Already had one of each of these, which I pretty much had to pay through the nose for. These were much more reasonable.

Anyone know if any other AAGPBL teams had buttons such as these? I am thinking these harken to the two years that the Colleens and Sallies toured together as development teams for the league...either that or it is just a coincidence that it happens to be these two teams that the buttons exist for.

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Thanks guys! I'll put it on the mental checklist of things to grab when I head to the tornado shelter;)

Beautiful piece! What's the size?

Thanks Rob the piece itself measure 11.5" by 19.5" and the image bears a strong resemblance to this Spalding piece

Bostons vs Chicagos
 

Very happy to add this to my 19th century game collection!

Great pick up Kris!
I've always loved that game.

Agree.... Very attractive Game.

But I have never understood how the ball would make its way down to the bottom portion. It seems like the wood "wall" would create a barrier that would stop the ball from reaching its final destination towards the bottom.

Am I seeing it wrong?

Cardinals 1954 Scorecard
 

Ever since I saw one, I thought these scorecards were the most attractive ever made. I snagged this one. It's actually signed lightly in ballpoint by Musial on the glove (upside down) and is also from a game against the Braves where rookie Hank Aaron hit his final homerun of the season. (#13)

Thanks guys! Mark, great question. It’s not a “wall” but rather painted wooden panels placed over the track. So the ball diappears behind the panel briefly, then comes back out going the opposite direction on the next lower level. Hopefully you can see from this photo.

That is so cool, Kris...

Thanks for posting the additional pic, and congrats on acquiring that awesome game. I imagine it must be in the top 5% (or better) of those that managed to survive. It's a stunner!

Spectacular pick-up, Kris!
Our BaseballGames Forum will have more questions for you that only "games guys" would care about...

If you can believe it, I've been looking for this pin for 25 years. The guy on ebay had TWO!

REA Pickup
 

This is a neat little game with the original string and ball. I figured that there cannot be too many of these out there.

Picked up another Zach Wheat photo. Thanks Jeff.

That Cards scorecard is cool.

Congrats Rob is there a matching Fred Lynn? Bob that game is awesome. It's the first I have seen.

Like a companion piece, eh? :mad:

Sweet, sweet acquisition, Bob. You're right, it's the first example we've seen in over ten years,
just the third or fourth in more than twice that long.

The last one I saw was in Mastro's personal collection (subsequently auctioned off by Legendary). I suppose this could easily be the same one, given the scarcity. Such a beautiful piece with amazing graphics. And the condition is insane... a minor miracle that the Ball and String are still in tact!

The only other example I've seen was beat to hell, from a Clean Sweep Auction (I believe). Great pickup!

Finally picked up something baseball-related (last one was the painting in my avatar, I think) This is a large 1800's albumen photo of a baseball game at Wildwood Park, St. Paul, Minnesota. It has a linen backing rather than board.

Since I have already grabbed a posting spot, below it are a couple of 1967 Seattle concert posters - the raised paint on board type, that I found yesterday in an antique store. The first one is black light and was done by John Moehring who was well-known for that sort of thing. They were sort of important (1st Seattle Trips Festival), so these are images from the internet, not of my actual posters. They are both featured in a book about Seattle Concert posters from 1966-68 - knowing nothing about posters, I frantically researched them at the antique store, prior to purchasing....such moments would probably be a good thread topic. I can remember involving Leon in a tobacco tin call, Shelley regarding a rookie-era Ted Williams autograph, and another buddy got a call about an ambrotype of a ship captain. All moments of massive persperation.

Scott,

I guess you weren't 'Pushin too hard' to get those posters authenticated!!!

Oh look, there's Charlie Manson! ^^^^

That's good. I figured it was part of one of the band's lyrics, but had to google it. I am embarrassed to admit that I haven't heard of any of the bands.

The Seeds were a pretty big psychedelic band though "Pushin' too hard" was their only hit. Their album is quite collectible and has been reissued in the 180 gram vinyl. The rest of the bands appear to be much smaller local bands, only one other name seemed even mildly familiar.

No google needed for me to pick up what Michael was putting down. :cool:

1954 Cardinals Scorecard
 

Hi Randall
I definitely agree with you ...This Cardinals scorecard in 1954 is one of the nicest in baseball. I also like the 1962 Cubs with all the NL hats as a runner up..
Hope you are doing well..
Phil

Photo Pick-ups
 

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I'm not big photo guy but occasionally I come across ones that hit the gotta have it level...Remarkably I picked up the two above the same weekend couple weeks ago...I found the Potato Bug II photo at the Grass Valley Old West antiques show...then I found the Indian Motorcycle Glendale Run photo in a mall in Roseville CA...

I'm usually not interested in photos that aren't "from the period"...i..e. produced/processed the same era it was taken...but I liked the motorcycle pano so much I got it anyway. The inscription below the riders says "Indian Motorcycle Run, Glendale CA June 14th 1931..."When I first saw it I was taken back...but it didn't look period and I dismissed it and walked away...walking thru the store it kept gnawing at me and I went back for another look...I'm always on the lookout for exceptional vintage motorcycle photos and I had to admit it would have to be one of the greatest motorcycle photos I'd ever seen...and I'm a big So. Cal fan...Southern California is a place you can ride your bike all year long...

I started examining it closer and got the feeling it wasn't from the period...but wasn't a recent knock off either...I could see some slight wrinkling/creases and soiling in the white border....which made me feel a little better that it wasn't a $39.95 eBay pop out...

I got the feeling it was an older repop...maybe from the 70's or 80's...I did a google image search for it and couldn't find one...or on eBay...So I started seriously considering it....I knew who the dealer was but not very well...However, I have a good friend with a booth in the mall who sort of knows everybody and everything going on...who I figured would likely know the score on it...So I gave him a call...sure enough he knew the story...the dealer that was selling it bought it from a collector in the area...and that it had been in his bathroom...and it was the only thing he could buy from the guy...is what he said...

That intel...along with the slight soiling and creasing put me at ease enough to pull the trigger...I'm not crazy about the white border above and below...but I guess I'll leave it be for now...

The Potato Bug II is a whole-nother story....Someone wrote in what looks like recent ink on the back of the frame "Putter King II"...I sort of know the editor of WoodyBoater.com...which is a community just like Net54baseball.com except it's all about wooden boats and that world...all they discuss is wooden boats and all the aspects....great site...So I send photos to Matt the editor and he immediately posted a feature on my photo to see if anyone could supply any info about the boat...

I should stop right here and explain...any photos of speed boats from about pre 1930 are very rare...and the older the rarer....way more rare than baseball, football, and boxing for instance...and I'm always on the lookout for them...So there I was browsing around a cowboy antique show and blam...The dealer who I know a little and have seen around the antique shows the last 30 years, sells very good and interesting antique photos...His prices are typically not too expensive and not too cheap either...However...I think he had $95.00 on my photo...and I got it for $85.00...which in relation to how tough speedboat photos are...you get the picture...

http://www.woodyboater.com/blog/2018...know-j-morgan/
So anyway...someone on WoodyBoater.com was able to I.D. the boat as Potato Bug II...see link above...

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Carlton - Have you read “Boys on the Boat”? Seems right up your alley.

Picked this up at an estate sale today, napkin collage which included one from Joe DiMaggio’s restaurant.Attachment 317491

Recent pickup of vintage Harridge auto. Brings my total of hof autos to 202.

Picked up this pendant, not gold, says HIT USA on back. 1969 Mets World Champions. If anyone has any info on this I would certainly appreciate it.

May 13, 1915 Nashville Banner sports page
No mention of the Federal League
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Giants patches
 

Picked these up this week. Curious if anyone knows more about them (e.g., distribution, brand).

A few scans from the Heritage lot I won. All from 1931 US Tour of Japan, all signed.

I thought that lot was awesome, congrats on winning it Jeff! I am also really happy to see that it was sold as a lot, I love it when stuff like that stays together.