July 2012 Pick-ups

[repsher]

Nice photos 71buc, especially like the Huggins and Klu.

Like the Reach guides Mark. I didn't realize they came hard bound.

[repsher]

Just got my lateset package. It's got what is now my Bill Terry collection, Joe Dimaggio touching homeplate after hitting the only HR in the 1939 All-Star game, Lefty Grove, Pee Wee Reese, Travis Jackson and Cecil Travis. I've tried to keep my collection to mostly only Hall of Famers but I feel if Cecil Travis hadn't given up nearly 4 years to the military, during WWII, he would have had a good shot at the Hall.

I've now added some of the best photos to my collection in the past 2 weeks. I've also got another package on the way, with what will be called my Dizzy Dean collection. I'm going broke but if there is one thing I've learned about this hobby is you have to drink when the well is full.

Ryan

[71buc]

Ryan,
Nice Photos, you beat me to the Reese and the Dimaggio. It's good to know that this is a shared illness.

[repsher]

Originally Posted by 71buc

Ryan,
Nice Photos, you beat me to the Reese and the Dimaggio. It's good to know that this is a shared illness.

Thanks. Have you tried to remove the inventory/certificate sticker on any of these photos? You can see I attempted to with the Cecil Travis and it didn't go too well. They put the sticker in the worst place sometimes.

[71buc]

Originally Posted by repsher

Thanks. Have you tried to remove the inventory/certificate sticker on any of these photos? You can see I attempted to with the Cecil Travis and it didn't go too well. They put the sticker in the worst place sometimes.

I leave those stickers on the photo as I consider it to be the modern equivalent of stamping.

[perezfan]

Murray Olderman was one of the truly great sports cartoonists from the 1950s - 1990s. His work was always top-tier, in what is quickly/sadly becoming a lost art (due largely to the demise of the newspaper/print industry).

Anyway, there is a nice gathering of Olderman's work currently available on ebay, for a song. Below are a few of the examples I recently picked up... and plenty of others are still available.

[scmavl]

Originally Posted by perezfan

Murray Olderman was one of the truly great sports cartoonists from the 1950s - 1990s. His work was always top-tier, in what is quickly/sadly becoming a lost art (due largely to the demise of the newspaper/print industry).

Anyway, there is a nice gathering of Olderman's work currently available on ebay, for a song. Below are a few of the examples I recently picked up... and plenty of others are still available.

Thanks for the heads up on the Olderman art. I picked up a Branch Rickey as well.