May pickups

[GaryPassamonte]

Notated as "baseball at the Gunnery" circa 1865. It's difficult to see from my scan, but the CdV shows a pitcher in the center and a batter on the far right.

[Runscott]

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[4scuda]

Flea market find, Joe Dimaggio mitt. This has to be one of his earliest. Sorry for the bad picture.

[khkco4bls]

Just got off ebay 1954 yankees ballantine display plaque to go with my yankee silver tray commemorating 5 consecutive world series. good shape not warped as these are normally found. A little elbow grease and 409 cleaner cleaned off all the stains.

[Scott Garner]

Nice Kevin!

I just completed a trade with fellow board member Randall Hahn.
Here is a ticket stub from HOF'er Rube Waddell's record setting 1904 season in which he struck out 349 batters. Rube was the winning pitcher in the game played on June 25, 1904 at Philadelphia. The A's bested the Washington Senators 6-3.

Waddell owned the major league record for single season strikeouts until Sandy Koufax passed him with 382K's in 1965. Nolan Ryan since set the modern standard of 383K's in 1973.

Thanks Randall!

Disclaimer: I don't own this RPPC of Rube and Matty, but I love the image!

[GKreindler]

Awesome piece, Scott. And that postcard is unreeeaalll.

Graig

[GrayGhost]

not sports, forgive me Leon, just LOVE this. ICONIC image everyone knows. Not sure when I saw it in the old crap frame how old. Then, saw this when sliding off frame backing. So, that makes it 50 plus at least

IMO, pretty cool, photo has very light AP Stamping. prob a 60s souvenir, but I love it.

[Darner]

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

Nice Kevin!

I just completed a trade with fellow board member Randall Hahn.
Here is a ticket stub from HOF'er Rube Waddell's record setting 1904 season in which he struck out 349 batters. Rube was the winning pitcher in the game played on June 25, 1904 at Philadelphia. The A's bested the Washington Senators 6-3.

Waddell owned the major league record for single season strikeouts until Sandy Koufax passed him with 382K's in 1965. Nolan Ryan since set the modern standard of 383K's in 1973.

Thanks Randall!

Disclaimer: I don't own this RPPC of Rube and Matty, but I love the image!

I've recently picked up some similar Philadelphia Athletics tickets and comparing the writing on it with Scott's, they appears to be from the same source. I've seen other Athletics and Phillies tickets with similar writing from various sellers on Ebay and other auction sites and was wondering if anyone had any information about their origin. Was a big cache of Philadelphia tickets recently found or have these been circulating for a while? I'm just curious how these things managed to survive. Thanks - Ed

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by Darner

I've recently picked up some similar Philadelphia Athletics tickets and comparing the writing on it with Scott's, they appears to be from the same source. I've seen other Athletics and Phillies tickets with similar writing from various sellers on Ebay and other auction sites and was wondering if anyone had any information about their origin. Was a big cache of Philadelphia tickets recently found or have these been circulating for a while? I'm just curious how these things managed to survive. Thanks - Ed

Hi Ed,
Actually, I can help.
These tickets originated from a large collection of early Philadelphia Athletics and Philadelphia Phillies tickets of games that were attended by one Philadelphia fan. This collection first entered the hobby in the early 1990's and were purchased by George Kennigsberg (sp?) who at the time owned and operated the Monterey Bay Sports Museum in Northern California.

All of these tickets had the year and score written on the front in pencil which was later overwritten with vintage steel-tipped black fountain pen by the patron.

It's interesting to note that many teams did not issue tickets with dates (year) making it challenging to determine exact vintage. The other thing which is noteworthy about this collection was that the patron carefully pasted these into a scrapbook preserving their condition. All of the tickets were expertly removed from the scrapbook. Some have lined paper remnants, while others are fairly free of paper.

Overall, great early baseball collectibles. I do recall seeing a couple of these tickets from early Babe Ruth pitched games, although he was not the winner in either game. I regret not buying these, FWIW...

I hope this helps.

[Old Hoss]

Originally Posted by GaryPassamonte

Notated as "baseball at the Gunnery" circa 1865. It's difficult to see from my scan, but the CdV shows a pitcher in the center and a batter on the far right.

Great cdv, Gary! Is the photographer/location of studio identified on the back? I always hope so when I encounter an early photo.

Charles

[Darner]

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

Hi Ed,
I'm not sure if you did the research to determine what happened in each of the games that your tickets were from?

The second ticket from the top is of particular note.

On 9/25/09 the A's and Cleveland played a doubleheader. In the 1st game, HOF Eddie Plank was the winning pitcher (shutout). The second game featured a terrific pitchers duel between HOF Addie Joss and HOF Chief Bender. Bender and the A's prevailed, shutting out CLE 3-0.

Neat ticket!

Thanks! I do have some accounts and the boxscores from each of the games. In the clipping I have about that 1909 doubleheader it has Bender beating Joss 5-0 (with CLE making 6 errors) in the first game and Morgan beating Falkenberg 3-0 in the second game. I'll try to attach it and hope it's readable.

In the other games:
5/2/1908, the A's scored two runs on Boston errors in the 3rd, Dygert with the win, Winters, the loss.
8/20/10 Chief Bender beats Irv Young
5/30/11 Harry Krause shuts out Lew Brockett and the Highlanders.
9/6/13 Bob Shawkey beats Fred Anderson, Collins and Baker score 3 runs each and Tris Speaker goes 3 for 4.

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by Darner

Thanks! I do have some accounts and the boxscores from each of the games. In the clipping I have about that 1909 doubleheader it has Bender beating Joss 5-0 (with CLE making 6 errors) in the first game and Morgan beating Falkenberg 3-0 in the second game. I'll try to attach it and hope it's readable.

In the other games:
5/2/1908, the A's scored two runs on Boston errors in the 3rd, Dygert with the win, Winters, the loss.
8/20/10 Chief Bender beats Irv Young
5/30/11 Harry Krause shuts out Lew Brockett and the Highlanders.
9/6/13 Bob Shawkey beats Fred Anderson, Collins and Baker score 3 runs each and Tris Speaker goes 3 for 4.

Ed,
Looks like you are on it.
FYI, when you posted the photo of your tickets, I was curious what happened in each of the games. 3-0 score was a typo. I meant to say 5-0.

BTW, originating of the same Philadelphia collection I own a win ticket stub for each of these early HOF pitchers:

Addie Joss- 1909 (LP Chief Bender- Game 1) Game 2- Cy Young LP
Eddie Plank
Christy Mathewson-1910 (Win # 242)- vs. Phillies
Rube Marquard- 1912 vs. Phillies
Rube Waddell- 1904 vs. Wash

I picked these up at different times over the last 20 years...

Great stuff!

[GaryPassamonte]

Thanks, Charles. The photographer is E R Smith from E Hampton Ma.

[RTK]

I attended the Cubs/ Yankees game Wednesday afternoon at Wrigley. There's a table & showcase set up inside the park with game used stuff, signed memorabilia by Banks, Williams, Jenkins etc... They also sell old line up cards that the are taped up in the dug out. I noticed one set off to the side, it was the Cubs vs Yankees from Yankee Stadium from April 6th, asked the price and bought it. There's only one for each dugout. I asked about the lineup cards from the games played at Wrigley (2), they're going to auction starting at $500 I was told.

[Joe Hunter]

Picked up this photo of the Marine baseball team at Pearl Harbor in 1944. I know Gil Hodges was stationed there in that time frame, and the player in the back row, 2nd from left looks like him. Any thoughts?