April 2011 Pick Up Thread

[baseball tourist]

Thought I'd get a jump on April 1st. Foolish?

Picked up a two paper items referencing base ball in Toronto. One is an envelope addressed to "Manager Toronto Base Ball Club, International League" post stamped Aug, 1889. I assume that this would be intended for the Toronto Canucks, the team that pre-dated the Maple Leafs.

Second item, also from 1889, is a post card announcing the "Annual Dinner of the Financial and Legal Base Ball Club" of Toronto. At first I thought these were a pair but the postcard is also stamped and dated for Jan of 1889. Don't know anything about this team.

Nice early Toronto items.... And best of all, cheap! (listed in the stamp section of EBay)

[perezfan]

It's been forever since I've added a new Reds Pennant to the collection. Here is an elegant 1930s version from Mears, that I was happy to pick up...

[novakjr]

1859 Harper's Weekly Hoboken "Elysian Fields" Cricket/Baseball woodcut. It's not in the best of shape, but I'm still pretty excited.

[slidekellyslide]

Picked up two photos of Les Bell...manager of the Lincoln A's in 1952.

[Big Dave]

Being as it is only the first day of April, I guess people pick up things before this thread starts and just post whenever. That how it works?

[baseball tourist]

Wow. The pick-up regulators are out today! I guess it is a major crime to post an item in a thread that you got a day before, huh? It seems to be something not worth complaining/commenting about.....oh, here I go wasting more time and space.

[mr2686]

I'm sorry, I know I should have submitted this back in the November thread, but I wanted to make sure it got fully authenticated by multiple sources before I made a fool of myself on the board. First off, this is not something I would have normally done, but because everyone makes so much fun of CC, I decided to go over there and pick a few "really bad" examples to discuss. While I was over there, I saw a "very nice" Ruth/Gehrig ball that was too good to be true (and of course, it had a bid of $250 with a few days to go). Knowing it couldn't be good, but wanting to play a prank on my buddy, I bid $400 and won it. When it arrived, I started looking at it and felt that if it was a fake, it was one of the best that I had seen. With PSA being just up the road, I took a full series of pictures of it and drove it up to them myself. The next thing I'm going to tell you just about floored me...it came back as authentic. Now, I know there has been some debate about some of the 3rd party authenticators, and just to play safe, and armed with PSA's authentication, I had my insurance company write it in to my policy and then I submitted it to JSA...and yes, it came back as authentic as well. By now I had now doubts, but I wanted to check with one other person...a person on this board who is VERY respected. I sent him as many pictures as possible...all angles and close ups. He told me that he would have to see the ball in person, but based on the pictures and the info provided that it indeed looked good to him.
My poor buddy doesn't even know what he might have got by mistake.
I'm not sure what to do next. I would love to keep this in my collection but I think I would get too much at auction. I think I'll have to sleep on this awhile

[slidekellyslide]

I'm guessing since Big Dave just registered a few days ago that he's just asking how the pickup thread works.

BTW Chris, nice pickup on that Toronto baseball ticket/envelope...I once found a Nebraska Indians envelope with a nice cache in the stamp section...there was no mention of baseball at all as the owner didn't know what the envelope represented.

[slidekellyslide]

Wow Mike! Can we see pics of the Ruth/Gehrig ball?

[scmavl]

Mike, that's quite a find! Post a picture if you can!

[slidekellyslide]

I'm feeling really stupid right now because I've got a feeling that I've been had here.... April Fools right?

[sycks22]

I'm pretty excited about my Walter Johnson auto hand written letter with his own letterhead. I've never seen a letter of his with his letterhead on it.

[ruth-gehrig]

I just picked these up today. 2 Programs and 1 scorecard. Not sure why one is orange and the other is red. Both are in incredible condition!! They've been stored in a file cabinet for quite some time. Color is just as bright as when new!! Original owner's mother worked at the Denver Bears(Tiger affiliate)stadium in 1961. Coming from a broken home with little positive male influence she brought him to the stadium one day because she wanted to show him something. That "something" was getting introduced to the players practicing on the field. How cool it must have been! The Pittsburg Pirates played the Denver Bears as a preseason game or exhibition game. 26 signatures that I count including Bob Lemon, Vernon Law, Robin Roberts, Dick Groat...and yes including a big beautiful blue inked Roberto Clemente. I'm looking to sell it so it may soon appear in the BST forum

[baseball tourist]

Picked up and old one. I assume that it may be late 19th century, but perhaps a more knowledgable bat collector would place it older? The seller indicated thy it may be from the 1870's-'80's. 30.5 inches with great patina/use, flattened end and a mushroom knob/handle.

The modern gamer is a JP Arencibia, Jays bat from 2010 ( also picked up today) for size comparison).

[jrog007]

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[murphusa]

Ebay win last week 1924 Souix City Team

[edtiques]

Here's my newest pick up,an 1879 Wright and Ditson Scorecard/Advertisement:

[Shoeless Moe]

Originally Posted by murphusa

Ebay win last week 1924 Souix City Team

Great picture Murph! Hey I have Swede Risberg book at home and he mentioned after his banishment days playing against the Sioux City Team on a fairly regular basis I believe.

[doug.goodman]

Hi guys -

I didn't want to clutter the memorabilia section with multiple posts, so I though this would be a good place...


I was the high bidder and after I receive them, will be looking to unload any that are NOT scored. According to Lew, his 80 year old consigner thinks that's about half of them.

Email me at doug.goodman@earthlink.net if you are interested in 1 or all.

I collect scored scorecards / programs from all eras, leaning towards the Dodgers, and any "interesting" games.

Thanx,
Doug

[baseball tourist]

Picked up the 1927 trophy and vintage helmet this week. Had the broadside for a while. Want to move it from the poster frame to a proper frame. Should make a nice display.

[Scott Garner]

Unbelievable!!

I had the tremendous good fortune to make a GREAT pickup today that I'm really excited about. I unearthed the only known extant ticket stub and scorecard to Chicago White Sox HOF great Ted Lyons' no-hitter that he pitched against the Red Sox at historic Fenway Park on August 21, 1926.

The patron that attended Lyon's big game was a local and he scored this game as well as several others at Fenway during the 1926-1927era. Additionally, there are some Hyde Park (Mass) High School baseball games scored in the scorebook.

What makes this extra special for me is that I'll be able to supply retrosheet.org with a copy of the play by play to the game so they can add it to their great database of scored games. It's always been a goal of mine to try to return the favor to retrosheet. It's been such a wonderful resource and tool that I've used extensively through the years. This is the 1st time that I've ever been able to find a scoresheet to a historic game that they can use.

I'm a happy camper!

[slidekellyslide]

Congratulations Scott!! That's a great addition to your collection.

[mr2686]

Congrats Scott! Well done my friend! How in the world did you come across this one? You must be going door to door asking if anyone has any no-hit tickets they don't want.

[CarltonHendricks]

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

Unbelievable!!

I had the tremendous good fortune to make a GREAT pickup today that I'm really excited about. I unearthed the only known extant ticket stub and scorecard to Chicago White Sox HOF great Ted Lyons' no-hitter that he pitched against the Red Sox at historic Fenway Park on August 21, 1926.

The patron that attended Lyon's big game was a local and he scored this game as well as several others at Fenway during the 1926-1927era. Additionally, there are some Hyde Park (Mass) High School baseball games scored in the scorebook.

What makes this extra special for me is that I'll be able to supply retrosheet.org with a copy of the play by play to the game so they can add it to their great database of scored games. It's always been a goal of mine to try to return the favor to retrosheet. It's been such a wonderful resource and tool that I've used extensively through the years. This is the 1st time that I've ever been able to find a scoresheet to a historic game that they can use.

I'm a happy camper!

Scott...Congrats nice P/U...and I like your giving back/contributing to retrosheet...Can you tell us how it all came about?....were you walking down the street and saw a garage sale sign?

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by CarltonHendricks

Scott...Congrats nice P/U...and I like your giving back/contributing to retrosheet...Can you tell us how it all came about?....were you walking down the street and saw a garage sale sign?

Hi Carlton, Mike and Dan,
Thanks for the nice words guys. OK, you asked for the back story, so here it is:
Some of you know that I have been a collector of no-hit games for many years (2011 is my 39th year of collecting this theme). To say I have an incredible network of great collector friends would be a gross understatement...

As far as today's discovery goes, the Ted Lyons ticket and scorebook was actually discovered by a friend of a friend based out of Massachusetts. He visited a antique store in a suburb of Boston this morning and spotted the ticket and scorebook in a glass case.

This collector asked the antique dealer if he had any other baseball tickets and memorabilia to which the dealer responded that he did, and only last weekend a gentleman walked into his store with quite a few vintage Red Sox baseball tickets (over 200) that came from one family's collection from over 80 years. My friend Tony Swann (the ultimate Carlton Fisk collector) purchased these as this is something that he collects. If you want to blow your mind, look at his cool website carltonfisk.com!!

Long story short, thanks to the iPhone, the collector visiting the antique store sent the photos over to my friend, who in turn forwarded them to me.
We negotiated a bit on the price and 5 minutes later, there you go, I add the Ted Lyons no-hitter stub and scorebook to my collection. BTW, I now own tickets to over 168 no-hitters dating back to 1910.

Excuse me for the shameless plug, but I am always looking for tickets to vintage no-hitter games that I can add to my personal collection. Please let me know if you have anything that you feel would help another fellow die-hard collector.

Good collecting,
Scott

[CarltonHendricks]

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

Hi Carlton, Mike and Dan,
Thanks for the nice words guys. OK, you asked for the back story, so here it is:
Some of you know that I have been a collector of no-hit games for many years (2011 is my 39th year of collecting this theme). To say I have an incredible network of great collector friends would be a gross understatement...

As far as today's discovery goes, the Ted Lyons ticket and scorebook was actually discovered by a friend of a friend based out of Massachusetts. He visited a antique store in a suburb of Boston this morning and spotted the ticket and scorebook in a glass case.

This collector asked the antique dealer if he had any other baseball tickets and memorabilia to which the dealer responded that he did, and only last weekend a gentleman walked into his store with quite a few vintage Red Sox baseball tickets (over 200) that came from one family's collection from over 80 years. My friend Tony Swann (the ultimate Carlton Fisk collector) purchased these as this is something that he collects. If you want to blow your mind, look at his cool website carltonfisk.com!!

Long story short, thanks to the iPhone, the collector visiting the antique store sent the photos over to my friend, who in turn forwarded them to me.
We negotiated a bit on the price and 5 minutes later, there you go, I add the Ted Lyons no-hitter stub and scorebook to my collection. BTW, I now own tickets to over 168 no-hitters dating back to 1910.

Excuse me for the shameless plug, but I am always looking for tickets to vintage no-hitter games that I can add to my personal collection. Please let me know if you have anything that you feel would help another fellow die-hard collector.

Good collecting,
Scott

Nice story....I noticed the Iphone assisted...These smart phones are really something....now with the capability to send photos on the spot it opens up possibilties....the other day I was at a fea market in Roseville Ca and saw a Heinie Groh bottle bat for $1,200.00...I took photos and sent them to my friend Chris Galbreath in Tennessee... but it was retail....said he sold one for about that..I just got the phone so it was my first time sending photos on the spot...my old phone's camera and system was too clunky to do mess with.

You can set your phone to send photos right to facebook, photobucket, or someones email address or phone number...I suppose Leon could have an app made that would allow us to upload from our phones straight to
Net54Baseball.com...

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

Unbelievable!!

I had the tremendous good fortune to make a GREAT pickup today that I'm really excited about. I unearthed the only known extant ticket stub and scorecard to Chicago White Sox HOF great Ted Lyons' no-hitter that he pitched against the Red Sox at historic Fenway Park on August 21, 1926.

The patron that attended Lyon's big game was a local and he scored this game as well as several others at Fenway during the 1926-1927era. Additionally, there are some Hyde Park (Mass) High School baseball games scored in the scorebook.

What makes this extra special for me is that I'll be able to supply retrosheet.org with a copy of the play by play to the game so they can add it to their great database of scored games. It's always been a goal of mine to try to return the favor to retrosheet. It's been such a wonderful resource and tool that I've used extensively through the years. This is the 1st time that I've ever been able to find a scoresheet to a historic game that they can use.

I'm a happy camper!

As a follow up to my earlier post, I just received the Ted Lyons no-hitter and scorebook in today's mail. The scorebook itself is truly remarkable piece. It is a hardbound Spalding Official Base Ball Score Book which is beautifully scored in fountain pen and pencil. For 85 years old the scorebook is in exceptional condition!!

To my surprise, in addition to the Lyons no-hitter, there are some other really neat games in the Score Book. The 15 year old patron scored the 1926 Fenway Opening Day game that was played on 4/13/26. The Red Sox hosted the Ruth/Gehrig led 1926 Bronx Bombers. In this game, Yanks HOF'er Tony Lazzeri makes his major league debut and also records his first hit and scores his first run.

Other games that were scored included a game vs. the Philadelphia A's in which HOF greats Ty Cobb, Jimmy Foxx and Eddie Collins all appear. Way too cool! Prior to this find, no play by play existed for ANY of the games scored in this book. Retrosheet.org can now knock off 10 new games from 1926 and 1927.

What a fun pickup!!

[mjkm90]

A big thank you to Matt for allowing me to purchase his Hartford batter figural that had been painted by what appears to be the same little artist who painted my Chicago pitcher. It cleaned up very nicely and completes my set. As you can see in this photo, the pitcher has already begun to darken and I expect the same with the batter.

[MGHPro]

Mike.
Looks great. Enjoy it.
Matt

[Chris Counts]

Here's a 1949 San Diego Padres (PCL) signed ball I recently acquired. The eBay seller listed most of the signatures, but somehow he missed both Minnie Minoso and Luke Easter in the description, so I got it for a song. Bucky Harris, Max West and Jimmy Reese also signed it. Since I'm a Minoso collector, I was thrilled to pick this up ...

http://imageevent.com/ccmcnutt

http://minnieminoso.blogspot.com

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Minnie...36821566381801