Your favorite Item In Your Collection

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Posted By: Clint

I believe tha Halper sale had a photo of Christy holding this game.

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Posted By: Joe_G.

Paul, very cool cabinet. Dan is correct in that Sam Thompson would go on to play for the DAC but not for a decade or so after that photo. I'd love to hear what members are listed as playing for the team in 1890. Also, are you able to tell what studio took that photo?

And here is one of my favorite Detroit memorabilia items.



Best Regards,
Joe Gonsowski

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Posted By: paulstratton

Joe,

Here's a list of the players. No Sam Thompson. I have no idea who the photographer was for this cabinet...any idea who it might be?

W.C. Crowley ss
C.T. Miller 3b (capt)
W.A. Chope lf
Jos. Walsh C
Geo. Jerome lf
W.S. Walker c
G.P. Codd p
West Avery mascot
B.F. Gudey cf
C.Clippert Jr. cf
W.H. Reidy rf
F.W. Monahan 2b
W.H. Ducharme 1b
C.K. Foster rf
J.J. Marker cf

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Posted By: John Harrell

Rob,

That's a great shot of a bunting bat you posted. I posted one of mine about a week or so ago. Do you have other 19th century bats?

John

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Posted By: Denny Walsh

Is that an Old Baby's Crib made into a some sort of coffee table? Or...?
I think that's really cool lookin' as a display case!

Life's Grand,
Denny Walsh

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Posted By: Max Weder

Denny

I've probably posted that image 10 times on net54, and you're the first person who has correctly identified the furniture as an old baby's crib. It's a cool piece to store the gloves, and the glass top for the pennant was my spouse's idea

Max

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Posted By: Tom Boblitt

1984 Louisville Stoneware statue of Pete Browning made for 100th anniversary of first bat made for Browning. About 12 inches or so tall with real wooden bat. Very tough to find. Have seen 2 of them and I own both of them. Sure more exist but haven't seen them. Anyone?

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Posted By: leon

If you ever want to get a very unfair advantage trade *(your way) on the Mello Mint wrapper let me know....I am sure I have some stuff in my top shelf personal collection you would have an interest in....take care and thanks for sharing....very cool Toy Town display piece too

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

That is a very cool Mello-Mint wrapper. I had no idea the gum was sold in sticks similar the the Wrigley brands.

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Posted By: Wesley

Richard, Cool items. Do you have the rubber Toy Town stamper to go along with the Toy Town box?

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Posted By: Richard

Leon - I'll contact you when my 19th cent interests turn to 4 base hits

I believe that this wrapper is one of only two known.

As for the toy town stamp, i have been looking for the actual stamper for about 2 years now without success. I have located a stamper from a later generation game, but the original one (from the 1st gen game above) alludes me.

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Posted By: jim

Just back from framing; the Eastern League has my Buffalo team players and was actaully produced in Buffalo. The Velvet Black Sox is the twin to the Piedmont Black Sox premium I have.

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

That Eastern League composite is superb Jim. You took a better picture of it than REA did for their auction. It looked like it was faded but I can see by your photo that it is not.

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Posted By: jim

Hi Dan, it truly is clear and sharp, except for the thumb hole through the lower right player. Will enjoy viewing it on the wall. I am an avid card collector, more so than memorabilia, but most of the cards are buried whereas pieces like this I get to see all the time. Wish I had more walls.

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Posted By: jim

Just came in mail today. Scan in ebay was small so I was just bidding on needing the piece. Seeing the piece up close shows Satchel Paige sitting next to Bob Feller; Larry Doby in the upper row also. A nice surprise.

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Posted By: David Atkatz

My pride and joy,a 1927 Yankees signed, game-used baseball:



Yankee Stadium opening day program:



A pretty nice Ruth ball:

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Beautiful items David. Thanks for sharing them.

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Posted By: David Atkatz

Thought I'd show a few more. As you can see, i collect New York Yankee material, with an emphasis on the years 1903-1927.

Possibly the only extant scorecard from Jack Chesbro's wild-pitch pennant losing game, October 10, 1904:





Hilltop Park/Highlanders fold-out postcard from 1907:



Ticket stub (actually personal invitation rain check) from first game at Yankee Stadium:



Ticket stub from "Lou gehrig Appreciation Day, July 4, 1939:

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Great stuff David. I've never seen that Hilltop foldout postcard...How long have you been collecting?

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Posted By: David Atkatz

Thanks Dan. I grew up in the Bronx--pretty close to Yankee Stadium--and would hang out at the players' entrance (mid-60s) for autographs. Around 1965 I became interested in the 1920s Yankees, and obtained my first Ruth and Gehrig autographs in 1966. Collecting stopped when I went away to college in 1968, then graduate school, jobs (I'm a physics professor), marriage, children, etc.
Took it up again--seriously--in 1990, and with eBay's assistance I buy and sell a bit to support the habit.

How about you?

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

I started with cards when I was a kid in the late 1970s - sold off my whole collection (with the exception of my Old Judge cards) around 1990 when I was in college. Around 1997 I discovered ebay and started collecting the T206 set and with that I got interested in all the ephemera surrounding the game and it's been pretty much non-stop collecting since then. My major focus is photographs and Nebraska related baseball items like the Nebraska Indians.

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Posted By: Clint

David, great stuff, would love to see more.

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Posted By: Bruce Babcock

Great Ruth ball, David.

Most of my collection is cards but this coin bank is one of my favorite memorabilia pieces.

The only auto balls I have are single signed balls of Aaron, Mathews & Spahn plus a team ball of the 57 WS champ Milwaukee Braves, including Bob "Hurricane" Hazle.

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Posted By: Greg Theberge

There's just waaaaaaaaaaaay too much Yankee stuff being posted here!

Only kidding (sort of). Nice stuff.

Just to add balance to these new additions, here's another favorite when He played for the GOOD GUYS (c. 1918-1919)

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Posted By: Joe K.

Hi Greg- How do you know that is c. 1918-1919? Nice Hat!

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Posted By: Greg Theberge

Hi Joe,

A collector friend that I purchased this from had shown it to Josh Evans at Lelands. Based on the Red Hat band, they dated it from the Red Sox years. To be honest, I don't know how you can really pinpoint it to a specific date. Lelands also had another hat band (sans hat)like this which they called Red Sox years.

Speaking of Sox....It's looking VERY ugly tonight.

Greg