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[ramram]

Thought I'd share an interesting recent find. I picked up this Spalding Basketball scorebook recently. It has several college games from the NY area as well as a few Pro games. This book was apparently the official book used for those games. The Pro games were at Madison Square Garden and included the NY Knicks, Washington Caps, Rochester Royals and Minneapolis Lakers (with George Mikan). However, it also included some of the games from the 1949 NIT games at the Garden. The really interesting game, as it turns out, is the game between Kentucky and Loyola of Chicago. This is the game that Alex Groza, Ralph Beard and Dale Barnstable fixed with some bookies to shave points. Kentucky went on to lose this game and finished the season 29-2. Two years later when it came to light, Beard and Groza were arrested and also banned for life from the NBA, thus ending the careers of two of the greatest players of their era. Anyway, I thought it was pretty neat that this was the official scorebook that captured that infamous game.

Rob M.

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[Scott Garner]

Here is a scan of a rare ticket stub to the historic 1912 World Series game 8 deciding game which won the series for the Boston Red Sox, their 1st at Fenway Park, 100 years ago.

The starting pitchers in this game featured the Red Sox Smoky Joe Wood (34 wins in the regular season + 3 in the World Series in 1912) vs. the Giants' HOF'er Christy Mathewson. Smoky Joe and the Red Sox win game 8 with a final score of 3-2. The Sox win the series 4 games to 3 (one game was called because of darkness in a tie).

The lucky patron noted the final score and the teams on the verso of the ticket stub.

Enjoy!

[YankeeFan]

Awesome 1912 WS ticket Scott!


Here's my scored program to the last Dodgers game in Brooklyn

[mcgwirecom]

Minoso becomes oldest player to get a hit, and plays in 5 decades...

[71buc]

This probably won’t ever be considered as a historic event. However it was a record setting feat and entertaining nonetheless. July 22, 1926 in a stunt at Mitchell Field in New York, Ruth, a private in the National Guard, caught a baseball that was dropped from a bi-plane. The plane was at an altitude of 250 feet and traveling at about 100 miles-per-hour. The record was reported in the October 2, 1926 National Police Gazette. Below are that issue and the original photo depicted on page five.

The Babes record stood until 1939 when it was broken by Cleveland catcher Joe Sprinz. Sprinz caught a ball dropped from a blimp hovering 800 feet overhead. His new record required five attempts. On the fifth attempt, the ball crashed into his glove at an estimated 154 mph. It slammed his glove hand into his face with such force that he broke his upper jaw in twelve places, fractured five of his teeth, and was rendered unconscious. He also dropped the ball.

[thekingofclout]

What a terrific display those two Ruth pieces will make, Mike!

Here's a vintage original photo of the Iron Man as he gets ready to play in his 2,000 consecutive game.

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[thekingofclout]

July 4, 1939

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