Let's see your RMY Auction wins!

[perezfan]

This one...

[perezfan]

Check this out...

http://www.google.com/imgres?sa=X&bi...9,r:3,s:0,i:90

The Feller video starts at the :48 second mark. He did indeed give the motorcycle at least a 10 foot head start.

Also check out the crude (and obviously fake) Feller autograph on the Baseball at the very end. Looks just like a "Coach's Corner Special".

[bobfreedman]

Wolterse - I love the Three Fingers picture, especially that you can read "Federal League" on the ball.

Ben - I was in on the Koufax for a while, if you ever decide to part with it.... Very nice pickups overall.

I forgot to add this DiMaggio rookie that i won as well:

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by perezfan

Check this out...

http://www.google.com/imgres?sa=X&bi...9,r:3,s:0,i:90

The Feller video starts at the :48 second mark. He did indeed give the motorcycle at least a 10 foot head start.

Also check out the crude (and obviously fake) Feller autograph on the Baseball at the very end. Looks just like a "Coach's Corner Special".

Awesome! Thanks for the link, Mark. You can also see Feller destroy the Sky Screen Chronograph contraption with his 6th pitch on YouTube. Very cool!

[npa589]

The "Three-Finger" Brown picture is incredible...somehow I missed that one in this incredible auction.

These are my first photo purchases, and also my first post on this side of the board. Incredible photos all!

Here are my wins, all Cubs-focused, so, in other words, the photos all have a context of failure within them, and I love it. Not too much to find on the contrary...
Anyone got any Cubs photos with 1907-1908 WS in mind?

[perezfan]

Scott:
Thanks for the great info and background on radar technology.

Nate:
I love the photo with the Tiger Mascot Batting. Is there any indication as to whether this is the 1935 or '45 World Series?

Here's one for you... Early 1908 version of the Cubs' Mascot (not from Rhys' auction, and not mine). I just thought you might like to see it

[npa589]

I love that photo! I believe I've seen it before. Boy, they've come a long way with mascot creation. That looks like a beaver!

Anyway, the mascot picture is from the 1935 Series. The photo was taken at Navin Field in Detroit, and the Cubs mascot is in the background, crouched down - waiting for his turn.

[cwazzy]

Won these and one other that I will not post as it is an embarrassing pickup for my stepmother. LOL

[drcy]

I glanced though the catalog after the auction ended (after, all I was semi-conscious in the hospital during the auction) and noticed some of the high speed 'Edgerton' photos. In case anyone picked one up, Harold Edgerton is one of the most famous and important photographers in 20th century history. He was an M.I.T. electical engineering professor who invented ultra high speed photography. You know, those iconic images of a bullet piercing a playing card, a hummingbird wings in mid flap-- those are Edgerton's photos. Many to most of his photos were shot in his M.I.T. lab. His photos are ranked as both advanced scientific experiments and collectible works of art, and original examples are rare on the market.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by drcy

I glanced though the catalog after the auction ended (after, all I was semi-conscious in the hospital during the auction) and noticed some of the high speed 'Edgerton' photos. In case anyone picked one up, Harold Edgerton is one of the most famous and important photographers in 20th century history. He was an M.I.T. electical engineering professor who invented ultra high speed photography. You know, those iconic images of a bullet piercing a playing card, a hummingbird wings in mid flap-- those are Edgerton's photos. Many to most of his photos were shot in his M.I.T. lab. His photos are ranked as both advanced scientific experiments and collectible works of art, and original examples are rare on the market.

Damnit - I thought that was just feverish babble

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by drcy

I glanced though the catalog after the auction ended (after, all I was semi-conscious in the hospital during the auction) and noticed some of the high speed 'Edgerton' photos. In case anyone picked one up, Harold Edgerton is one of the most famous and important photographers in 20th century history. He was an M.I.T. electical engineering professor who invented ultra high speed photography. You know, those iconic images of a bullet piercing a playing card, a hummingbird wings in mid flap-- those are Edgerton's photos. Many to most of his photos were shot in his M.I.T. lab. His photos are ranked as both advanced scientific experiments and collectible works of art, and original examples are rare on the market.

And he's a Nebraska native...there is a museum in his hometown of Aurora, Nebraska that is pretty cool.

http://www.edgerton.org/

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by perezfan

This one...

Mark,

I own a different photo and ticket of this same speed test that occurred on 8/20/46 at Washington Senators depicted here.

The slug on my photo says that:
"The Army Ordinance Dept. brought it's Sky Screen Chronograph to Griffith Stadium in Washington August 20 (1946)to clock the speed of Bob Feller's fireball. The Chronograph, consisting of three boxes-- two containing photo electric cells, and the third, high speed computing mechanisms-- developed by the Army Ordinance Dept. to time the velocity of shells in the battlefield, and can do it accurately to 1/100,000th of a second"
Feller's fastball speed was confirmed to be 98.6 MPH.

Although radar was first invented in the mid-to-late 1930's it was crude.
It wasn't until many years later that it was refined enough to be used to effectively measure the speed of a fastball.

Ironically, on August 20th, 1974 (the 20th anniversary of Feller's speed test in Washington DC), aerospace company Rockwell International in Anaheim, CA used their refined version of the radar technology to effectively measure the speed of Nolan Ryan's fastball at Anaheim Stadium. Ryan's speed was clocked at 100.9 MPH which is still listed as the fastest pitch ever recorded in The Guinness Book of Sports Records. It's important to note that the way that Nolan was recorded uses a different standard of measurement than today's radar guns. Nolan was measured as his fastball passed through a beam at home plate.

It's my understanding that today's radar measurement is recorded 10 ft. after a pitch leaves a pitchers hand. FWIW, by today's measurement standard Nolan's heater on Aug. 20, 1974 would be 110.9 MPH and Feller would be about 108.9 MPH from his 1946 measurement...