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I am something of a serial thrift store picker, but only rarely do I find anything baseball related. Today, much to my surprise, I spotted three baseballs, all intriguing for their own reasons, and well worth the 96 cents each I was charged (if for no other reason than to have some quality balls to play catch with).
First, I found a William D. White National League ball with an unidentified signature on it. It feels familiar to me, but I just can't figure out who it is. Any help with an ID would be much appreciated! Second, I found what appear to be two collegiate game balls. Both are ID'd as being college balls, and both contain inscriptions (unfortunately not very attractive) - "FSU April 25, 1992" and "5/1/92 Texas". Google results show that Miami played FSU on April 25, 1992, so I am assuming the former owner was a player on that team. I couldn't find a Texas or Miami schedule to verify. If anyone has any interest in the collegiate baseballs, let me know -- I'd love to trade them for something similarly interesting but not necessarily valuable (my main interest is 40's-50's Brooklyn Dodgers/NY Giants), or failing that give them away to a good home. |
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Looks like Andre Dawson
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Albie Pearson?!?
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Bob's right. It's Dawson
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Thanks gents -- the Hawk, not bad! Knew I'd seen it somewhere. I'm definitely happy to add a HOF'er for $0.96.
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Those two college baseballs came from a Miami (Fla) player.. They beat Florida State, 5-4, on April 25, 1992 and beat Texas 6-1 on May 1, 1992. Probably not much in value unless something big happened in that game.. The best thing going for you is it a Texas home baseball when they were still in the SWAC. It's probably worth more to the particular player that owned these because of personal value though. I still have my first college hit against Virginia Tech sitting on my desk in my den.
EDIT: I did some more research, something that might add a little more value to your baseballs is the fact 1992 was Ron Fraser's last year as coach at Miami after 30 years-- compiling 1,271 wins, 2 national championships (1982, 1985), and 12 CWS appearances including 1992. Last edited by mschwade; 08-22-2011 at 07:28 AM. |
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Thanks for the info! Do you mind sharing where you found it? I'd love to see a box score or something to do a little more digging.
I didn't figure these would be very valuable from a money perspective -- and it seems that whoever owned them decided they weren't worth keeping around for sentimental reasons, though they could have been the victim of an overzealous parent or spouse. Had I been talented enough to play college ball, I'm sure I'd have a collection of all my moments as well. Heck, I've still got some little league/high school home run balls floating around somewhere! If anyone is interested in these, please let me know -- like I said, I'd appreciate a nominal trade item if that works out, but mostly I just want them to go somewhere they'd be appreciated. Quote:
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Matt Last edited by mschwade; 08-22-2011 at 01:49 PM. |
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Good pickup on the Dawson. Is it a National or American League Ball, or a Major League Ball? Up until several years ago, there were seperate National and American League Baseballs, each with the signature of the appropriate league commissioner. Later they went to one single MLB ball for both leagues.
BTW, Dawson lives in Miami, so that all fits together with the Miami game balls. |
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Thanks again Matt.
Tom - it is an NL ball (William White). Fits the time frame. There's only one question left -- if the guy played at Miami, and could have even got the Dawson ball in Miami ... how the hell did these things end up in a thrift store in Northern Virginia?! |
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Or the guy moved back in with his parents after college, his parents finally get him out of the house some time later, and mom drags all his stuff that he left behind down to Goodwill.
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This does confuse me a little. I was always under the impression that the
"Championship" ball was only used at the College World Series. I have a collection of same going back many years. Did college teams use the "Championship" labeled ball during regular season games? I thought they used "Conference" balls (i.e. Southwest Conference, Big 8 Conference etc.) balls during the regular season. Pure speculation but was this a leftover from the prior year CWS used by Miami in a regular season game?
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