1970s baseball pinbacks

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Originally Posted by hcv123

It exists with and without a signature. I believe same for the Mays, but I am not positive.

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[Mark70Z]

Posted for Clint (ksfarmboy)

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[MK]

Are there other “black box” pins with the team name missing?

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by MK

Are there other “black box” pins with the team name missing?

The only ones I ran across searching for them on the web were a handful of Fred Lynn and Jim Rice pins with some B&W and at least one of both of them on the pin together, none of them had BOSTON or RED SOX printed on them so I decided not to add them to the checklist. They would have to be 1975 at the earliest.

[Cliff Bowman]

I was watching King Of The Hill on YouTube, a documentary about Fergie Jenkins and the 1972 Cubs, when I noticed on one of the videos to the right a screen shot of Steve Blass that caught my eye. It was a documentary about the 1971 Pirates and the screen shot was obviously from the studio setting that these 1971 pins used. I figured I would watch the whole thing to see if they used any other photos from the studio setting and sure enough I spotted three more, Bill Mazeroski, Bob Robertson, and Vic Davalillo. Apparently many of the Pirates posed for these photos but the only one known made into a pin is Roberto Clemente.

[ooo-ribay]

Very cool find, Eagle Eye!

[MK]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

I was watching King Of The Hill on YouTube, a documentary about Fergie Jenkins and the 1972 Cubs, when I noticed on one of the videos to the right a screen shot of Steve Blass that caught my eye. It was a documentary about the 1971 Pirates and the screen shot was obviously from the studio setting that these 1971 pins used. I figured I would watch the whole thing to see if they used any other photos from the studio setting and sure enough I spotted three more, Bill Mazeroski, Bob Robertson, and Vic Davalillo. Apparently many of the Pirates posed for these photos but the only one known made into a pin is Roberto Clemente.

Do you think someone used the photos without the photographer’s permission and was ordered to stop mid production?

[ksfarmboy]

Great find Cliff!

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Originally Posted by MK

Do you think someone used the photos without the photographer’s permission and was ordered to stop mid production?

I think that is entirely possibe.

Or not.