[perezfan]

Thanks Rob, Marc, Mike and Greg...

Regarding the sticks.... I agree with Hank that they are surprisingly few and far between. You'd think a lot more would have survived along with the pennants. Like Rob, I have saved a few though...

In the '40s-50s, many of them came with a red or green bamboo cane that had a curved handle. In the '60s, they pretty much exclusively used a plain dowel rod. I imagine the dowel rod was far quicker/easier to insert because it is smooth... it must have been annoying to slide the bamboo cane into the spine, as it would inevitably get caught in there more than a few times.

Can't even remember the last time I went to a game and saw vendors marching up and down the aisles with hoards of pennants and other souvenirs. It's now relegated to food and drinks, but the memories remain!