With 42 coming out lets see your Jackie and integration related item

[Jason19th]

With 42 set to come out next week I want to show a couple of items related to Jackie and baseball integration. I would love to what other members have along these lines. These may not be the most valuable item for a monetary sense, I would argue that they may be some of the most important baseball artifacts from a historical stand point

1. Cover of the first issue of Our Sports magazine. This was a short lived (5 issue) publication put out by Jackie while he was still an active player. Can you imagine a player today publishing such a controversial mag during his career

2. Interior editors comment from 1 above

3. 1903 Scorecard Harvard v Brown. Notable because with fairly little fanfare Harvard fielded a black short stop (William Matthews) who not only stared on the diamond but also became one of the first black attorneys general

4. 1907 Postcard from an integrated Wisconsin semi-pro team featuring George Wilson who had stared with the Page Fence Giants in the 1890's and played on a team with Honus Wagner as the color line was finally barring blacks from the minors in the 1890's

5. Photo of Larry Doby (who I would ague went through just as much as Jackie but gets little of the recognition-- few remember that he came up just a couple of months after Jackie and he did it with no minor league time

6. Petition to have blacks admitted to the majors. I would guess that few of the people who signed this knew that the organization had ties to the Communist party

[springpin]

The blog after my next one will feature the Robinson pins. I have acquired a few since I did the book.

[jsage]

I will be listing a vintage 1947 Jackie Robinson Pennant on EBay later this week.
Jerry Sage
jssage24@yahoo.com

[Leon]

a circa 1948 baseball blotter card that just about says it all..

[Forever Young]

I can't wait to see the movie. Below are some Type 1 photos from my collection as well as an autograph.

[71buc]

A few photos

[khkco4bls]

Pin display. signed Clemente model on the tape. 2 of the rarest Jackie pins, and a pencil Jackie sig. from an autograph leather book.

[Jasonxmay]

I'm excited to see the movie. I have signed rookie cards of every HOFer who debuted after 1933, but this one is one of my favorites.

[CharleyBrown]

Some incredible items in this thread! I don't have much on the memorabilia side, but I never miss a chance to show off these:

[skooter]

Had my son-in-law, who does custom framing, frame this for me so it could be removed whenever I want to look at it's contents. One of my favorite pieces.

[GKreindler]

God, I love this thread.

Really great stuff, everyone.

Graig

[rcp1936]

Originally Posted by Jasonxmay

I'm excited to see the movie. I have signed rookie cards of every HOFer who debuted after 1933, but this one is one of my favorites.

That is a pretty impressive collection