You have one day and two 1888 Morgan's......
 

If you could go back in time to any date 1888-1945 and purchase anything sports related within the value of two dollars(Morgan's), when and what would you buy?

I would buy a ticket to a ball game at 1927 Yankee Stadium in which I knew Ruth and Gehrig both hit homers. Being in that electric atmosphere in the original Yankee Stadium on a warm summer day.....I swear to God I would drink that in and savor every freaking moment!!

I assume I would have to buy a bleacher seat but what a better place to enjoy a game but with the real baseball fans in the cheap seats.

Jeez, you probably could have picked up a couple full boxes of Goudey's for a couple bucks.

Yes! Much respect for choosing the experience over the possession. Great choice in my opinion.

I'd bribe a worker at American Lithography for an uncut sheet

20 packs of Drum cigarettes, please.

I'd go to a baseball game in St. Louis in 1904 at Robinson Field and have Jake Beckley sign a baseball. He's a hometown boy and HOF'er.

With out a doubt I would get the best seats available for the double header played on September 28 1941. Would go to the second game if that is all my $2 would get me.

How could anybody pass up seeing the greatest hitter of all time go 6 for 8 to finish the season batting 406. To me this is one of the greatest stories in baseball.

Would be awesome to see Ted play in person. Thanks for sharing. Marines don't sit one out. Semper Fi

I would travel back to July 23, 1910, and purchase the closest seat to third base that I could find for the Detroit Tigers v. New York Highlanders game - a meaningless regular season game. I would then view the play that led to baseball’s most famous photograph with my own eyes.

Or 40 packs of Victory's.

I was thinking more of a physical thing but even the ticket stub would be a good investment at 2 bucks. Nice answer...

Thought long and hard and settled on Owens taking the podium at the '36 Olympics in Berlin for the big fat f*+!k you to Hitler.

Runner ups:
Johnson taking down Jeffries

Ali v Frazier I at Madison Square Gardens.(don't think I could do it for $2

Merkle's boner

This was my answer. Try to snag a few sheets with Wagner & Plank.

I'm like Leon, I was thinking of a physical card or collectible. I don't know how you would pick the "where and when" of finding a particular collectible. I guess you could say the summer of 1910 or 1911 in some bigger city like New York and hang out at a tobacco shop. But that wouldn't necessarily mean you would find anything great. Although you could probably get some great tobacco advertising. Maybe you should drop in on Honus Wagner at his house and see if he got those tobacco card samples. You could tell him you'd be willing to give him $2 for all he had. Or maybe you decide to go to North Carolina and search for some Ty Cobb tobacco tins with the Ty Cobb cards. If you were in Philadelphia you should be able to find some E cards. If they come with penny candy you could have 200 cards for your $2. Would they charge tax back then? I don't know. Or, if you jump to Babe Ruth's debut year, you could go to Boston, buy a baseball, and have Ruth sign it. He'd be a rookie, so he'll be eager to sign since he would be unknown. Be sure to have him add the year he's signing and maybe "Redsox". That would be pretty sweet. Those were some I came up with.

I think I mentioned this in another thread, but by 1945 Uncle Jimmy should have already amassed a fine collection. Not sure how much $2 would buy, but then, just meeting him might be worth the price of admission.

Unfortunately you couldn't get into Johnson/Jeffries either. The nosebleeds were 10 bucks.

Even in 1892 the Sullivan Championship fight ticket was $15!

Yes, two bucks might have been too limiting. Maybe a late round admission...

There are plenty of great options to consider. Assuming I had the time I wonder if 2 bucks would have been enough to send off for a complete set of 1915 cracker jack cards. Or maybe track down a Babe Ruth rookie, then see if you could get him to sign it.

Yeah, it's amazing what high profile Heavyweights made compared to athletes in other sports at the time. Dempsey probably made more in a couple fights during his championship reign then Babe Ruth made during his entire career.

Ahhh, I mean, you probably could have just snuck in at some point (doubt security was very tight), and then bought a truckload of souvenirs on the streets of Reno with the two bucks burning a hole in your pocket.

Set up inside a tobacco shop in New York in 1911 and advertise you’re buying all base ball player picture cards for a $.10 a piece. Soon as word gets around you’d have kids beating down your door. Bound to find everything from 1880’s on.

You'd be out of dough after buying just 20 cards. Offer a penny instead.

I'd go to a Giants game in the middle of the 1908 season and catch Fred Merkle before or after a game, to suggest he always touch second base when a teammate hits an apparent game-winning single.

Lol. Good thinking. You never know what effect it would have downstream.

That’s one of those scenarios where you come back to the present and suddenly all the signs are in Russian and the Chicago Mishkas have 29 championship banners hanging at Stolichnaya Field.

The Merkle game suggestion is great!
I’d love to attend the Merkle makeup game though - that must have been crazy to see.

Artifact alternative: November 13, 1893, Newport, KY. Use the $2 for bribes or other chicanery to get away with the Dauvray Cup, recovering the trophy and explaining its disappearance in a single shot.

If I could travel back to 1913 I'd put the two bucks down on Donerail to win the Kentucky Derby at 91-1 odds.

I'd purchase a bunch of Old Mill cigarette packs from 1910 when the series 8 came out in hopes of getting a Joe Jackson Rookie. Also some Drum and Uzit packs plus a Ty Cobb tobacco Tin .

John P

LOL, when's the time portal close up in this scenario.............and then, what's your weight return limit?

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Might as well pick up some Just So Tobacco and get Cy and Buck cards....

You do realize that your $2.00 bet would only yield a $182.00 profit, right? I would rather spend the $2.00 on cigarette packs. Let’s assume you only obtain common cards. Just one great shaped T206 common card would exceed your $182.00 profit, and cover your particular scenario’s opportunity cost. The remaining commons are then pure profit.

However, let’s assume you obtain just one great shaped hall-of-farmer card...

I don’t see any scenario that buying that racing ticket is a better idea than cigarette packs. To each his own.

I guess that assumes you're coming back. But $182 in 1913 was like having $4,700 today.

October 1st 1932, Wrigley Field bleacher seat, game 3. Babe Ruth's called shot.

Ticket stub is valuable. And if I can bring a camera to capture that moment it would be priceless.

Not to mention the experience of being there.

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Hate to burst your bubble, but the moment is on moving film. There was no called shot. It is a myth. He was just waiving at the Cubs’ dugout and pitcher. However, seeing the Babe hit a bomb is
a solid choice.

As a Yankee fan, we do not believe that version of events. Haha. The film is inconclusive.

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I assumed he meant, he'd put the bet down, and then he'd have $182 bucks to spend in 1913, instead of 2 bucks.

Exactly. I could have had quite a day.

Many ways to play this, but would pick 1888, Detroit, MI in September. I'd buy one pack of Old Judge (with the baseball card notice on outside) and one pack of Creole cigarettes to study the contents. The Old Judge pack could very well have Fb style cards and Creole should have Newsboys League cards. I'd then continue buying packs until full $2.00 was consumed (20 packs) with a likely bias on the OJs. The 1888 Fb OJ cards feature so many rarities, Detroit and otherwise. Would be hoping for rare Western Association players or McGreachery or Anson in Uniform and so many others. If the OJs were of the Fa style I'd jump to the SF Hess Creoles. While in Detroit I'd certainly visit Tomlinson Studio and Recreation Park.

C'mon, that's akin to saying there is no Santa and we know there is!!

1916 sporting new ! As many issues as I can get that have a certain young pitcher from Boston

I'd go to Coney Island in the summer of 1888. I'd hire 3 10-year-old boys to bring me back as many cigarette cards as they could beg off the smokers for 50 cents each for the day. Whichever boy brought me the most by the end of the day would get an extra 50 cents.

+1

Very original thinking

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I'd purchase several tickets to the final game of the 1945 season at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis.

I'll take the first ticket and give the rest to as many kids as I could talk into sitting in the left-field stands and retrieve the grand-slam ball hit by Hank Greenberg in the 9th Inning to win the game 6-3.

Attendance for this one was only 5,582 so there would be plenty of room to roam around and grab it.

Technically, the Tigers had clinched the day before against the Indians, but this was a better game to watch.

I would also get to see Virgil Trucks start and give way to Hal Newhouser, who would get the victory, in the sixth.

Former Yankee pitcher George Pipgras was the home-plate ump and the Browns' Pete Gray batted once and scored a run in this wonderful ending to the season.


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Take in Christy Mathewson's
 

last ball game in 1916 vs Mordecai Brown for 50 cents, then take the other $1.50 to the bank to trade in for 6 of those new-fangled 1916 Standing Liberty Quarters.

I might find King Kelly and his White Sox pals at the pub (after watching them play of course), introduce myself by buying a round, and then see where the night took us.

I'd go back to the start of the 1919 World Series in Cincinnati. I'd live off one of the dollars (I wonder what a 1919 hot dog would taste like?), and bet the other one of the Reds to win Game 1. The odds were 5 to 1 for the White Sox, which would pay me enough to make some more bets, and ultimately make a living off it (Hello Indians in '20, and Giants in '21!). I'd have enough pocket change pick up a few thousand T206s in nice shape, which were probably close to worthless at the time. I'd have to wait a while for gum cards to be invented, but I'd have a glorious time getting in on the ground floor of the Roaring '20s.

Perhaps a bleacher seat to watch a shaky 'Old Pete' Grover Alexander shuffle in from the bullpen and strike out the Yankees' murderers row to save the 1926 World Series for the Cardinals. That was a baseball moment.

I'd buy as many Darby Chocolates as I could with the Cobb/Crawford combination.