My Vintage Minneapolis Millers & St. Paul Saints Collection

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1947 St. Paul Saints Home Uniform #22 - Worn by Otho Nitcholas.

Same season Duke Snider played for the Saints! Duke wore #23!

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Those of us who collect minor league teams can appreciate just how difficult it can be to find uniforms...those are outstanding!

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Game used bats from Bill Rigney, Foster "Babe" Ganzel, Bubbles Hargrave.

The start of my Minneapolis Millers bat collection!

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c. 1958-60 Minneapolis Millers & c. 1947-60 St. Paul Saints Game Worn Caps

The Minneapolis Millers cap is signed by Bob" Riverboat" Smith, Paul Smith and Al Schroll. Has vintage writing on the leather head band that reads, "I Frozen Rabbit Track" and "Whitey Cepeda" inside the leather head band. I have been unable to identify who or what this relates to. Any ideas?

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Metropolitan Stadium, Bloomington, Minnesota (1956-1981) stadium ticket booth sign!

One of my favorite artifacts in my collection - The Millers played here until they folded after the 1960 season with the arrival of the Minnesota Twins in 1961. I was able to photomatch the sign to a home video from 1980 that was posted on YouTube. You can see the exact matches to the font deficiencies throughout. There is white paint over the numerals that were changed to accommodate the price changes. Although this sign may or may not have been around when the Millers occupied the park – it still remains a unique piece from the Old “Met”

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Metropolitan Stadium, Original Stadium Seat #3, Unrestored

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Original Minneapolis Millers broadside advertising. Top is from 1958 and the bottom from 1939

[baseball tourist]

Awesome collection! Love all of it - flannels, bats, seats and signs. Keep 'em coming.

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c. 1935 Minneapolis Millers Wheaties Advertisement

[Scott Garner]

GREAT collection! Thanks for sharing this with us. Very cool....

[I Only Smoke 4 the Cards]

Nice collection. Thanks for sharing.

[kmac32]

My great great uncle played for the St. Paul Saints in 1919 and 1920 in between stints with the Yankees. He was an outfielder and was one of the team batting leaders during those years. His name was Elmer Miller. Definitely some very cool memorabilia displayed here.

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1921-24 Gavvy Cravath Hillerich & Bradsby Game Used Bat

I recently acquired one of the toughest Millers bats on my list. 1921-24 H&B Gavvy Cravath (NL home run champion). Cravath was one of baseball's top power hitters of the dead-ball era, in the seven years from 1913 to 1920 he led the National League in home runs six times. He's the guy who had the home run record before Babe Ruth came along. Special thank you to Brendan (BPM0014) for helping me land this bat.

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Can't help but share this fantastic style match to the famous 1959 Junior World Series photo featuring Fidel Castro.

[Runscott]

How about that set of 1939 autographed photos that were recently auctioned? I collect early Ted Williams, but couldn't fork out that much dough when I only wanted this one:

[daves_resale_shop]

Thats a beaut! What auctionwas it a partof?

Originally Posted by Runscott

How about that set of 1939 autographed photos that were recently auctioned? I collect early Ted Williams, but couldn't fork out that much dough when I only wanted this one: