Philly Show this weekend>>>

[aelefson]

Hi-

I have heard about this show for years, but had never gotten a chance to go until this one. I know the show has lost a lot of dealers, but I had a great time overall. I was most surprised by how few people I saw walking through the show and I was there from 9am until about 2pm on Saturday. I expected that to be the busiest time. It seemed pretty empty to me but that could also be the open layout.

The main reason I had a great time was the items I purchased. I purchased a nice 1905 Philadelphia with Bender, Plank, and Waddell that I will use to upgrade my Plank item in my HOF collection (currently an E91 with the name trimmed off). I also purchased a really cool photograph of Walter Johnson (is he with Ray Schalk?), and an 1889 London Illustrated baseball woodcut with images of Cap Anson and other hall of famers.

The fourth item I purchased is probably one of my favorite items in my collection now. It is an 1868 copyright (1871 written inside) Henry Chadwick scorebook produced by Peck and Snyder. It has several games scored for a team called the Actives. They were from Dubuque and played other teams in Dubuque. I checked all of the pages and there are no early career hall of famers that I am aware of (although on one of the last pages there is an A Spaulding (the middle letter could be a G but I am not sure). I doubt it is the famous Spalding as he was playing in Boston then.

This fits my collection both for early baseball ephemera and it will serve as my Henry Chadwick item in my HOF collection. I am very excited to own this book. I will post pictures of the book and woodcut later, but here are scans of the postcard, Walter Johnson photo, and a scan of the cover of the Chadwick book (might be rebound?).

Alan