What is your best memorabilia pickup you added to your collection in 2013?

[Bugsy]

1. Fan-Taz advertising sign
2. 1910 All Star fan
3. 1919 White Sox program and stub
4. 1940s St. Paul Saints game worn jersey

[CarltonHendricks]

Originally Posted by Bugsy

1. Fan-Taz advertising sign
2. 1910 All Star fan
3. 1919 White Sox program and stub
4. 1940s St. Paul Saints game worn jersey

I've never seen that Fan Taz sign....looks like reverse painted glass....great piece...what are the dimensions?

[bobfreedman]

Cy Young Bain Photo
1916 Red Sox bain Photo
1910 Christy Mathewson 17" x 12" Presentation Photo

[perezfan]

Bob:
Great photos... More like Incredible!

Chris:
The Green All Stars Fan is so rare/so cool. Where did you track that one down? I've been looking for a decade or so, but this one just never turns up!

Congrats to all on some wonderful acquisitions!

[Scott Garner]

My congrats as well. Lots of terrific pick ups, guys!

Here are my 5 favorite memorabilia pickups in 2013:

1) Johnny Vander Meer circa 1938 pennant- Many thanks to net54's Chris Gamble

2) HOF Nolan Ryan major league debut full, unused ticket 9/11/66
This game marked the beginning of the amazing 27 year career of "The Ryan Express".
In his debut Nolan struck out his first 3 batters of 5,714K's, a record that is undoubtedly a "master lock" due to the specialized pitching of today.
For the record, Atlanta Braves pitcher Pat Jarvis was Nolan's 1st career K.

Tickets to Nolan's debut game are very scarce; full tickets are impossible to find.
This one is actually one of two known to exist and, IMHO, it's condition is the best of the two. It took me 40 years of collecting to find mine. Mission accomplished!

3) A terrific original photo of Vander Meer from his storied 1938 season with Crosley Field as the backdrop. Many thanks to net54's Rhys Yeakley for finding this one for me.

4) An original 1938 All Star print of Vander Meer and Feller.
Beyond scarce and it's condition is unbelievable for being 75 years old. A "picker" discovered two of these in an office building in OH that had been untouched for 35 years. The photo that immediately follows is the note that came with the prints that were sent to the former mayor of Defiance, OH.

5) 4 original snapshots from Johnny Vander Meer's historic 2nd consecutive no-hitter in 1938- The first Night Game at Ebbetts Field!
Definitely a holy grail for my collection!

[slidekellyslide]

Made some significant pickups this year in my Lincoln Chiefs collection...An away jersey, a slug of game used bats...and not pictured, but I also picked up 6 or 7 team signed Chiefs baseballs.

[kdixon]

Here are a few of mine.

[matty39]

1. buffalo federal league program
2. alexander bf2 premium
3. red infield b18
4. ainsmith cravat 1913

[Bugsy]

Originally Posted by perezfan

Bob:
Great photos... More like Incredible!

Chris:
The Green All Stars Fan is so rare/so cool. Where did you track that one down? I've been looking for a decade or so, but this one just never turns up!

Congrats to all on some wonderful acquisitions!

Thanks! Yeah, the green fan is a really tough one. This one came via Love of the Game, but I know there are a few out there. Legendary sold one several years ago and I saw one at the National in Baltimore (I can't remember the asking price, but it seem well over market price).

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by Bugsy

1. Fan-Taz advertising sign
2. 1910 All Star fan
3. 1919 White Sox program and stub
4. 1940s St. Paul Saints game worn jersey

Chris, that Fan-Taz sign is very cool...now you need to add the pinback and the syrup dispenser!

[3-2-count]

I have two:

1. Original Sweet Caporal large wooden shipping crate.





2. Circa 1907-09 original 1st generation 8 x 10 photograph showing a contest between the Tigers and Red Sox at Huntington Ave Grounds.
(The way a game should be viewed when attending)

[slidekellyslide]

Could you imagine a screaming foul ball in a game like that??

[3-2-count]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

Could you imagine a screaming foul ball in a game like that??

YIKES!!!! Look out!!!!

[khkco4bls]

Green bay cigar box, clarkson cigar box, and cochrane 12A Reach top of the line catchers glove.

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by 3-2-count

I have two:

1. Original Sweet Caporal large wooden shipping crate.





2. Circa 1907-09 original 1st generation 8 x 10 photograph showing a contest between the Tigers and Red Sox at Huntington Ave Grounds.
(The way a game should be viewed when attending)

Tony,

Awesome pickups. I especially love the photo. Wow!

[bcbgcbrcb]

Here are mine, including a complete 1923-24 Tomas Gutierrrez MLB album, much rarer than its Cuban League counterpart...........

[3-2-count]

Thank you Scott. Much appreciated.

[bobfreedman]

Chris, great pieces, I love the Fan Taz and the fan
Scott, great looking Cubs pennant
Phil, I have been the under bidder on that pin at different times several time.

[Bugsy]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

Chris, that Fan-Taz sign is very cool...now you need to add the pinback and the syrup dispenser!

Thanks Dan! The Fan-Taz dispenser is probably my grail item. One day...

And great score on the Lincoln jersey. I collect St. Paul Saints stuff, so I know how extremely tough it can be locating old minor league jerseys. That stuff just wasn't saved. That was a huge find!

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by Bugsy

And great score on the Lincoln jersey. I collect St. Paul Saints stuff, so I know how extremely tough it can be locating old minor league jerseys. That stuff just wasn't saved. That was a huge find!

Yeah...I didn't think I'd ever find one...I was a little worried that this might not be Lincoln Chiefs when I first got it because I had never seen an away jersey, but thanks to Dick Stuart saving his clipping out of newspapers on the road in 1956 (And thanks to Mark and Andy Bowers for giving Dick Stuart's scrapbook to me many years ago) I was able to match it up and breathe a huge sigh of relief.