Ticket Stubs - 1908 Braves, 1910 Red Sox, '09 Cobb 2 hits, '27 Gehrig/Ruth - eBay 8/8

[scooter729]

Hi - I have a few nice old ticket stubs ending tonight on eBay. Includes:

- 1910 Boston Braves
- 1911 Boston Red Sox
- 1909 Tigers / Highlanders (Yankees) - Cobb 2 hit game
- 1927 Yankees / Tigers - Gehrig with 2 doubles, Ruth with 2 walks and an RBI, and Lazzeri with a grand slam, and more!

See the listings here - thanks for looking!

[doug.goodman]

Those are cool tickets, but I'm curious how the dates are determined by the opinion sellers.

As an example, in 1909 the Highlanders had two games scheduled prior to Sept 25 that happened after Sept 25 :

Aug 2 game was postponed to Sept 29
Aug 4 game was postponed to Oct 1

It seems like that would make the ticket that they dated as the first game on Sept 25 (originally the Sept 24 game) actually be a ticket for the first game on Sept 23 (originally the Sept 22 game).

Maybe the tickets just rolled over as the games were played? Seems like that would make it complicated for a person with a book of tickets to gift tickets to a future game to their friends. But, I wasn't around in 1909, so I don't know.

Still really cool tickets,
Doug

[scooter729]

Thanks Doug - great question. I own a bunch of season ticket booklets from the era. My understanding is each one would end up being applied to the next home game.

Say for example, the opening homestand of the season was April 1, 2 and 3. If they played on April 1, then the April 2 game was rained out until June, ticket #2 would be used for the April 3 game, and the re-scheduled game in June would use whatever ticket was in order at that time. So it would catch up over the season, but might not align with the original plan.

For us 100+ years later, I'm guessing we only have the ability to view it in retrospect, and count the home games and align the home game number to a schedule of final game results.

Some of these stubs mention specific dates, like this 1913 Red Sox one I have. This obviously makes it much easier to determine - I just wish all of the booklets did this at the time!

[doug.goodman]

See that makes some sort of sense (besides the part about gifting tickets in advance), although the game #67 Tigers stub from 1927 would then be for the Senators game two days before the Yankees game. I have counted three times and the Yankees game keeps coming up as game #68.