Sept 2011 Pick-up thread

[BrandonG]

Originally Posted by Deadball

Brandon,

What makes you think this ball is from 1913? Do you have any more information on the person who saved it?

Well the older gentlemen I bought it from said it belonged to his Dad who was given the 2 baseballs at a game when he was a kid. I cannot obviously be certain that the baseballs were locked in the chest since that day, but the guy said that he's had the chest forever and that's where the 2 balls have sat until he opened one about 25 years ago, putting the open one on a shelf and leaving the sealed box in the chest. And obviously this particular model Ban Johnson ball was used from the 1912-1924 range so that nails down a timeframe. I went to this guys house to get the baseballs, he isn't a collector, didn't know anything about baseball, just happen to have them from his dad.