[CarltonHendricks]

Here’s my first pickups for October…Went to the Alameda Point show yesterday…I got the 1880’s baseball cap below…I initially saw it at the National last summer…I made an offer but the seller wasn’t ready to sell since he got it there at the National…Fortunatly the seller lives here in the bay area and sets up at the Monthly Alameda show…Last Alameda he shot me a price and I put down $300.00 to hold it and paid the balance yesterday…It's a very rare example of cap and kind of completes my collection of basic styles..I have the pillbox, boater, small bill Harvard cap, and now this striped one...which is the only one I've ever seen for sale...No makers tag but I got coaching from John Gennantonio and he gave it his stamp of approval as a style that was used for multiple sports as well as baseball...as seen by the 1886 Princeton baseball team photo under it


Photographed at 2011 National


Photographed at 2011 National







The seller also had a pair of 1890ish two tone Spalding baseball cleats…I didn’t plan on it but I couldn’t leave without’um!...







Also got a 20” x 14” photo of a boy taking a photo of boys topping a bat at home plate sand lot style..I alreday cross pollunated threads on this interesting photo earlier today, link below.
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=142270



Plus got an interesting little 1924 team photo of the Tucson High School girls basketball team (Tucson AZ)….The names of the players are written by hand in ink on each player…along with the name of the coach…A few weeks ago I bought a girls basketball poster with a large illustration of a girl player for the 1929 Oakland Ca YWCA vs San Francisco YWCA…so this kind of goes along with it…





Now I need to lay low…spending money like a drunken sailor lately!