November Pick Up Thread

[perezfan]

Originally Posted by ooo-ribay

I just picked this up. The best part was I was able to delete four ebay searches. Because these are sometimes missing one of the nameplates, I had searches for "cepeda+pen, sun valley+cepeda, sun valley+baseball and sun valley+pen." The Sun Valley Dairy was in Bernal Heights, not far from Candlestick. The Mays is hard to find. The Cepeda is non-existent. I believe these were given out to retailers/distributors. While not exactly rivaling the quality of a Spalding trophy, there is a bit of detail in these, including the correct numbers on Mays' and Cepeda's backs. It came from Mike Sadek's kid. Mike was a backup catcher for the Giants in 1973 and from 1975-81. Over his career, Mike averaged 48 games pers year, 9 RBIs, .6 HR and a .226 BA. Not exactly HOF numbers. More known for his pranks, here's a picture of Mike with a case of Miller High Life, maybe after he hit one of his homeruns. He was also Robert DeNiro's body double in an awful movie (which I love) called "The Fan."

My little statue is missing its pen. If anyone has one of these old skinny pens lying around, please PM me.

edit: I have a buddy who is a Giants collector and lifelong fan, like me. I call him "Rainman" because he has an uncanny ability to remember every season and every game of his youth. You could ask him "who did the Giants open against in 1964?" and he'd tell you the team and the winning pitcher. Rainman remembers the Sadek picture as being taken after his first major league HR.

Great pic, and congrats on an impossible find!

If I had the right pen, I'd send it to you Rob... But here's perhaps the next best option. I believe the original pens were Ivory colored, to match the holder portion (not stark white). These are waaaay tougher to find than you'd think, but I found one on eBay that might work well (and won't set you back much money).

This was by far the best example I could locate in the half hour I had available...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/19605322195...Cclp%3A4429486

Hope it works for you and congrats again!