October pickups

[lefty147]

My wife and I got back from a week long trip to the Clearwater, Fl area and took a side trip to purchase a pretty large collection of bats, gloves, uniforms and photos. Spent our 25th anniversary day doing it. 95% of the bats are 1940's and earlier. Mike

[ramram]

Just added this guy to my scorebook collection. It contains all of the 1915 World Series games between the Red Sox and Phillies. Most importantly it has 20 year old Babe Ruth's first World Series appearance. The Red Sox were pretty loaded that year, winning the World Series 4 games to 1, so Ruth only had one appearance in the Series - batting as a pinch hitter in the ninth inning of game one in the Sox only loss. The Phillies won this game 3-1 with Grover Cleveland Alexander out dueling Ernie Shore.

This scorebook was likely either kept by a Philadelphia reporter or a team official. In addition to the scorekeeping, there are notes regarding the attendance as well as the gate receipts. It also has several of the Phillies pre-season games from Florida prior to the 1917 season.

Rob M.

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[Lordstan]

I have been looking for one of these for a while. I see them up on ebay about 1 per year, but always seem to either forget or just miss out pulling the trigger.

1933 Black's Annual

[johnmh71]

Originally Posted by ramram

Just added this guy to my scorebook collection. It contains all of the 1915 World Series games between the Red Sox and Phillies. Most importantly it has 20 year old Babe Ruth's first World Series appearance. The Red Sox were pretty loaded that year, winning the World Series 4 games to 1, so Ruth only had one appearance in the Series - batting as a pinch hitter in the ninth inning of game one in the Sox only loss. The Phillies won this game 3-1 with Grover Cleveland Alexander out dueling Ernie Shore.

This scorebook was likely either kept by a Philadelphia reporter or a team official. In addition to the scorekeeping, there are notes regarding the attendance as well as the gate receipts. It also has several of the Phillies pre-season games from Florida prior to the 1917 season.

Rob M.

Rob:

As an avid Red Sox collector, I find this to be an awesome item. Most likely it was someone that worked for the Phillies. Where did you find it?

John

[ramram]

Originally Posted by johnmh71

Rob:

As an avid Red Sox collector, I find this to be an awesome item. Most likely it was someone that worked for the Phillies. Where did you find it?

John

Hey John,

I picked it up from another collector who previously had it for a decade or two.

Rob M.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by ramram

Hey John,

I picked it up from another collector who previously had it for a decade or two.

Rob M.

Great pickups Rob!

[johnmh71]

Originally Posted by ramram

Hey John,

I picked it up from another collector who previously had it for a decade or two.

Rob M.

Well you definitely scored a nice pickup. Congratulations.

[baseball tourist]

Originally Posted by lefty147

My wife and I got back from a week long trip to the Clearwater, Fl area and took a side trip to purchase a pretty large collection of bats, gloves, uniforms and photos. Spent our 25th anniversary day doing it. 95% of the bats are 1940's and earlier. Mike

Awesome group Mike! Pls let me know if you are coin to move any of the bats and/or uniforms. Chris

[sayhey24]

Yes Mike, that could be one of the biggest and best hauls we've ever had here on a pickup thread!

Greg

[lefty147]

Originally Posted by baseball tourist

Awesome group Mike! Pls let me know if you are coin to move any of the bats and/or uniforms. Chris

I am very slowly going through them and getting pictures. Mike

[Scott Garner]

I recently picked up this 1939 vintage Johnny Vander Meer Black's Annual.
These have to be fairly scarce because I've never come across one of them.

[ramram]

Just picked this up. It's from a photo album that contained a team photo that had been cut to make a photo collage. I believe this is the 1934 Cleveland Red Sox of the Negro National League.

Rob M.

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[murphusa]

I don't remember the rules about this sort of thing showing an auction before it is over but this is a nice looking item

good luck to the winning bidder

http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-Antique...item338619bf76

[yanks12025]

Originally Posted by murphusa

I don't remember the rules about this sort of thing showing an auction before it is over but this is a nice looking item

good luck to the winning bidder

http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-Antique...item338619bf76

Is it even real?

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by murphusa

I don't remember the rules about this sort of thing showing an auction before it is over but this is a nice looking item

There are no rules.

Potential buyers, who have already seen the auction, hate it.

Potential buyers, who would have missed the auction, love it.

Sellers love it.

[tjb1952tjb]

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

I recently picked up this 1939 vintage Johnny Vander Meer Black's Annual.
These have to be fairly scarce because I've never come across one of them.

Same photo used for Vandy's 1941 Play Ball card:

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by tjb1952tjb

Same photo used for Vandy's 1941 Play Ball card:

Hi Tim,
You are indeed correct!

[vintagesportflips]

Scott,
You obviously didn't do anything wrong, but I wanted to let you know before you paid the invoice, and then had to go through an ordeal to get a refund. The auction house really should have had a test run with liveauctioneers before selling such an expensive sports collection. Mark, here is a link to the auction:
http://www.liveauctioneers.com/catal...antiques/page1