Cleveland World Series press pins

[perezfan]

Great stuff, Rob.... beautiful grouping and great accomplishment.

It's interesting to note that only the very first and last Pins fail to feature Chief Wahoo. Otherwise, his mug makes it onto each and every Pin.

Also (with the understanding that few besides me would care) I find it interesting that the other version of Cheif Wahoo (pictured below) was never used. I thought that this even less politically correct version was thier primary Mascot from the mid 1940s to early '50s. Side by side comparison below...

[Rob D.]

Hi Keith,

Thanks for resurrecting this thread and for the kind words. I enjoyed looking at your site.

You're 100 percent correct that I got some of the phantoms from Bob. I vividly remember about 6-7 years ago the Saturday morning I got up and saw that they had just been listed on eBay. I didn't know what to think because I'd never seen them before. He only had one of the '54s listed, and after I spoke with him on the phone, he mentioned the other one. I was pretty happy he sold me all the Indians he had. Just a case of fortunate timing on my part.

I still haven't added a celluloid 1920 Cleveland World Series press pin to my collection (haven't even seen one come up for auction). This past spring I was lucky to find sort of a "placeholder," which is shown below. Though it's not a press pin, it is celluloid, it's from Cleveland and from 1920. Three out of four isn't bad, I suppose.

Again, thanks for the nice comments.

Rob