January 2013 pickups

[yanks12025]

Bought this lot of bats, mostly minor league players. 65 of them

[BigJJ]

Originally Posted by yanks12025

Bought this lot of bats, mostly minor league players. 65 of them

The next time my wife is not nice, this is exactly what I'm going to do.

[jpop43]

This here marks my first vintage glove pick up of 2013. Many thanks to a friend who saw fit to part with it.

www.dugouttreasures.com

[sicollector1954]

Nice Glove! Someday, I would like to find one of those.
For me--I was lucky enough today to pick up this little baseball stamped with the word Midget on it..had some damage on the backside (small rip and insides exposed) to the "canvas" like material. It's smaller than an official ball and much lighter. I am thinking the early 1930's but am no ball expert so any help dating it would be appreciated.
Was signed as photo shows--not perfect but vintage ink and the only sig on the ball..was in a hope chest of an 87 year old woman who had just passed away recently for the last 50 plus years and I believe it belonged originally to her husband who has passed away several years earlier...There were a few other New York/sports items as well but no family members left to tie anything altogether.
Oh, if only this little ball could talk!

[yanks12025]

Cool glove

[Scott Garner]

I also love the crescent glove Jonathan. Great pickup!

Not prewar, but I did pick up this terrific original 8 x 10 1989 action photo of Nolan Ryan that originated from The Sporting News Archive.
Not only do I love all of the key elements of the photo, but it also features the 1989 Ryan game used glove that I own in my personal collection. My glove came directly from Nolan Ryan and I have shown it previously on net54 in a thread where we showed favorite items in our collections. I also have a pair of game used Nike spikes from Ryan's 1989 season (one year style) that he is wearing in this photo as well.

In 1989 Nolan Ryan struck out HOF Rickey Henderson for his 5,000th career strikeout in August, became the oldest player to be the winning pitcher in the All Star Game at age 42, pitched two 1-hitters and became the first player to strike out 300 in a season for the 6th time, besting his own record (now tied with future HOF Randy Johnson).

[parker1b2]

Pickuped a book signed by the Clown Prince of Baseball Al Schacht personalized to Band Leader and piano player Vincent Lopez off of Ebay.

Second, my father gave me from cleaning out his attic. It was my grandfather's glove and is a Western's G1330, any other info on this such as approx dat etc. would be appreciated.

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[Runscott]

This just arrived today:

[BigJJ]

Great photo. That is one tough looking group. First one reminds me of a certain actor, name I forget.

[Runscott]

Thanks. It sort of reminded me of this one that I used to own - wish I had kept it:

[Runscott]

That is one beautiful glove!

[slidekellyslide]

Picked up this trophy at the antique show yesterday...it was given by Red Grange and the Palace Theatre to the most popular player in Johnsbury, VT...presumably a player on the Johnsbury Academy team. It measures 16.5" tall. And of course I can't find anything in Google about it.

[GrayGhost]

Vintage Trade card/advertisement. Cross collectible. I love this: