January 2013 pickups

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by BrockJacob

Scored this enormous 18' x 3' heavy canvas banner reading "Baseball Tonight" in painted red letters. The seller (from Mass.) claims the fella they got it from stated it was used at Fenway in the 40's. It's a possibility I guess but, who knows?

Brock,
The font of the banner looks to be 1940's, or possibly earlier in my mind. Either way, it's a pretty terrific banner. Congrats!

[mjkm90]

Extremely cool piece Brock...buuuuuut...how are you going to display it? I'm not poo pooing it at all. I love pieces like that, but I don't pull the trigger because I don't know what to do with them.

[BrockJacob]

Originally Posted by mjkm90

Extremely cool piece Brock...buuuuuut...how are you going to display it? I'm not poo pooing it at all. I love pieces like that, but I don't pull the trigger because I don't know what to do with them.

I'm not really sure what to do with it either Mike. I certainly don't have 18 foot of available wall space to hang this thing. So for the time being it will just be rolled and stored away. Hopefully sometime in the near future I have a baseball room big enough to display it properly. And if I find myself sick of seeing it just laying around gathering dust, I'll part ways with it and hopefully make a dollar or two off it

[BrockJacob]

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

Brock,
The font of the banner looks to be 1940's, or possibly earlier in my mind. Either way, it's a pretty terrific banner. Congrats!

Thanks Scott.
Being that the says "Tonight", whatever venue it hung outside of must of had light. I know all the big league stadiums, sans Wrigley, had lights by the late 1940's. I can only assume that many of the smaller venues that hosted minor league and semi-pro games would of had lights by that time as well. I think 40's-50's is about the right time frame.

[sayhey24]

Brock -- If you have a garage, would it fit on a wall out there?
I have a locker from Sportsmans Park that I keep out there because it won't fit in my house.

Greg

[BrockJacob]

Unfortunately the garage is already too crammed with junk to find room for this thing.

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by BrockJacob

Thanks Scott.
Being that the says "Tonight", whatever venue it hung outside of must of had light. I know all the big league stadiums, sans Wrigley, had lights by the late 1940's. I can only assume that many of the smaller venues that hosted minor league and semi-pro games would of had lights by that time as well. I think 40's-50's is about the right time frame.

Brock,
June 13th, 1947 was the first night game at Fenway Park, FWIW. Minor league parks and negro league games were played under the lights more than a decade earlier....