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[ramram]

From Harry Wright's personal 1883 scorebook - Old Hoss Radbourne's July 25th no hitter against Cleveland. The ninth recorded no hitter in Major League history.

Rob M.

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[GoldenAge50s]

Just saw your post.

The main thing I recall from that final day was the massive media coverage from all over the world. They closed off several sections of seating just to have a place for the media to set up. ----and then it was over in about 10 minutes or so as Pawtucket scored in it's first atbat! There was chaos on the field as the media descended to interview players & head for the locker rooms!

National columnist & author Dan Barry of the NY Times previously worked under my sister at the Providence Journal before going to NY. He wrote this book on the historic 33 inning game this past yr. and it's now a nice companion piece to my Press Pass from that game.

Showing the cover & real nice personal inscription page:

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by ramram

From Harry Wright's personal 1883 scorebook - Old Hoss Radbourne's July 25th no hitter against Cleveland. The ninth recorded no hitter in Major League history.

Rob M.

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Very nice, Rob! Do you own this scoresheet/scorebook?
That's an awesome piece!

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by ramram

From Harry Wright's personal 1883 scorebook - Old Hoss Radbourne's July 25th no hitter against Cleveland. The ninth recorded no hitter in Major League history.

Rob M.

Attachment 71200

Wow.

[Scott Garner]

Thanks, Jimmy! As Jimmy stated, this thread is definitely in my wheelhouse.

Here are some of my all-time favorite tickets and scorebooks in my personal collection:

1) Ticket stubs from the last game of HOF'ers Sandy Koufax's 382 K Cy Young season in 1965 and Nolan Ryan's ML record 383 K season in 1973.

Koufax still holds the NL and lefty hurler record for a single season, although (future HOF'er) Randy Johnson got close a couple of times.

Nolan Ryan is a collecting focus of mine and I am biased, but IMHO I believe that his 383 K record is more impressive because he did it in the AL during the 1st year of the DH era (1973). In 1973 American League pitchers didn't have the luxury of padding their strikeout totals by pitching to other hurlers.

Note: Had a rainout in KC not washed out one of Nolan's starts in September, he might have possibly struck out 390-400 batters in 1973. Additionally, he was scheduled to pitch the final game in Anaheim in 1973, but still managed to break Koufax's record in spite of pulling a hamstring in the 383 K game. I was actually at this game and saw Ryan set the ML record.

2) Scorebooks/programs from Sandy's 382 K game and Nolan's ML record 383 K game

3) Dated parking pass from Ryan's 383 K game

[ramram]

Scott/Doug -

Yes, i've collected quite a number of scorebooks and this is my favorite. I just wish I owned the Kalamazoo Bats card of Manager Harry Wright where he is holding one of these scorebooks.

Rob

[mr2686]

Whitey Ford breaks Ruth's 43-year-old record for consecutive scoreless innings in the World Series.

[mcgwirecom]

First game Mickey Mantle wore #7

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by mcgwirecom

First game Mickey Mantle wore #7

Randall,
That's a awesome ticket! Hang on to it!