August Pick Ups

[stone193]

I've been waiting for this game for some time. It usually goes for way more than I usually budget - usually in the 400 or more range. This one went for $201 - a good price IMO. The cards have been used but in very nice shape and the box is Vg-Ex.

It's has 52 game cards with 3 additional cards and an instruction booklet.

The cards measure about 2.5 X 3.5 inches.

I include this game in my collection - though it's not a "baseball" game as such but encompasses sports figures - most notably to many "the Babe" - and also includes American pop culture icons like FDR, Eisenhower and numerous movie heavy hitters like Clark Gable and Gary Cooper.

I also found that the total - 55 card - set is on the Registry.

Each card includes a black and white photo of the card's main subject at the top left - and is paired with an illustration of a related subject at the bottom right. E.g. if there's a Gable photo and a Cooper illustration - then there's a paired Cooper photo and Gable illustration card.

Also, there's a card of Sgt. Edwin A. Rowlands - the world's foremost autograph collector at the time. The card mentions he has a collection numbering over 3,000 pieces insured for 12K - a righteous amount for that time. He was also instrumental in helping Leister to get this game off the ground and into production.

The Checklist:

1- Grace Moore
1 - Lily Pons
1A - H.V. Kaltenborn
1A - Lowell Thomas
2 - Jack Dempsey
2 - Joe Louis
2A - John C. Thomas
2A - Lauritz Melchoir
3 - Kate Smith
3 - Dinah Shore
3A - Clark Gable
3A - Gary Cooper
4 - Bob Hope
4 - Jack Benny
4A - Frank Sinatra
4A - Bing Crosby
5 - Claudette Colbert
5 - Dorothy Lamour
5A - Irving Berlin
5A - Jerome Kern
6 - Arturo Toscanini
6 - Walter Damrosch
6A - Paul Whiteman
6A - Kay Kyser
7 - Byron Nelson
7 - Walter Hagen
7A - Bernie Bierman
7A - Knute Rockne
8 - Irvin S. Cobb
8 - Robert Benchley
8A - Franklin D. Roosevelt
8A - Thomas E. Dewey
9 - Douglas MacArthur
9 - Dwight David Eisenhower
9A - Babe Ruth
9A - Joe DiMaggio
10 - Red Grange
10 - Tom Harmon
10A - Don Budge
10A - Bill Tilden
11 - Fanny Brice
11 - Joan Davis
11A - Katharine Cornell
11A - Helen Hayes
12 - Ernie Pyle
12 - Westbrook Pegler
12A - William Green
12A - John L. Lewis
13 - Ted Husing
13 - Bill Stern
13A - Roy Rogers
13A - Gene Autry

I haven't gone over the instructions yet - but the game is "four" games in one and thus, each card is filled with a good deal of information for playing the various games.