Hyee-auction winnings

[ethicsprof]

great photos! congrats.
i picked up a couple of burke's from the 30's: Olson and Wasem(boston and boston).
all the best,
barry

[Forever Young]

Originally Posted by ethicsprof

great photos! congrats.
i picked up a couple of burke's from the 30's: Olson and Wasem(boston and boston).
all the best,
barry

Those are great Barry! Do you just collect Boston stuff?

[cwazzy]

I won the '30s Pepper Martin. Nothing huge but I loved the unusual pose on it. And for $40 it's hard to go wrong on it.

[Forever Young]

Originally Posted by cwazzy

I won the '30s Pepper Martin. Nothing huge but I loved the unusual pose on it. And for $40 it's hard to go wrong on it.

Tough to go wrong with 40 bucks! Very cool and congrats!

[r2678]

I picked up the lot with two Ken Hubbs photos.

[Lordstan]

Nothing for me this time.
Congrats to everyone on their pick ups.

[glchen]

I won the 1927 Yankees team photo, which cost me an arm and a leg, but is obviously an important Ruth and Yankees team photo. This one looks to be in really great condition, and I've discovered that I'm much pickier on condition for photos than I am for cards.

[Lordstan]

Gary,
I think you did very well.
Most of the 27 Yanks team photos I have seen sold or offered have been above $3k. I expected it to go for a much higher amount.
Congrats on a great pick up.

Best,
Mark

[Frozen in Time]

Two that I won in Henry's latest auction.

The top image is an early (circa 1952 -based on the negative number), vintage and original United Press photo. An absolutely perfect and unimprovable Type 1 portrait of a baby-faced, youthful Mickey.

The bottom image is a Type 1, 1956 United Press photo that illustrates the extraordinary balance and power of Mantle's RH swing as he crushes the ball for HR #46. I love this image. Note the contrast between his small waist and massive back as he completes his compact and powerful swing sending the ball 410 feet into the left-field seats. An interesting side note (from Mark Gallagher's book "Explosion") is that Mickey made an error in the first inning allowing 4 unearned runs to score. He did make up for it though with the 410 foot blast, a run-building hit and by singling home the winning run in the ninth.

Have not been on the forum for a while and would like to extend my best for a Very Happy Holiday Season to everyone (especially to some of my friends that I have interacted with over the last year - Jimmy, Graig, Ben, Mark and Leon).

Cheers,

Craig

[mybestbretts]

Great buys everyone. As usual I picked up the 2 George Bretts