November Pickups

[Scott Garner]

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone on net54!
Please enjoy your time spent with family. I've always thought that Thanksgiving is the best holiday because this is what it's all about, FWIW.

I recently picked up two nice additions to my no-hit ticket collection.

One is a ticket stub to HOF Sandy Koufax's masterpiece perfect game on 9/9/65 vs. the Chicago Cubs. Tough luck losing pitcher Bob Hendley only allowed 1 hit making this arguably one of the greatest pitched games ever in ML history.

The second ticket stub has been unbelievably tough to locate- KC Royals' Jim Colborn's no-hitter vs. the Texas Rangers on May 14th, 1977. Plenty of fans attended this game- 29,978, but this is the FIRST example of this ticket that I have ever even heard of existing in the 34 years following the game. Anyway, I'm very happy to own it.

I now have tickets to 193 different no-hitter games dating back to 1901.
BTW, I only need tickets to 15 no-hitter games from 1940 to present, which I still believe is an attainable goal.

PLMK if you have any tickets to pre-1980 no-hitter games that you are willing to sell or trade.

[baseball tourist]

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone on net54!
Please enjoy your time spent with family. I've always thought that Thanksgiving is the best holiday because this is what it's all about, FWIW.

I recently picked up two nice additions to my no-hit ticket collection.

One is a ticket stub to HOF Sandy Koufax's masterpiece perfect game on 9/9/65 vs. the Chicago Cubs. Tough luck losing pitcher Bob Hendley only allowed 1 hit making this arguably one of the greatest pitched games ever in ML history.

The second ticket stub has been unbelievably tough to locate- KC Royals' Jim Colborn's no-hitter vs. the Texas Rangers on May 14th, 1977. Plenty of fans attended this game- 29,978, but this is the FIRST example of this ticket that I have ever even heard of existing in the 34 years following the game. Anyway, I'm very happy to own it.

I now have tickets to 193 different no-hitter games dating back to 1901.
BTW, I only need tickets to 15 no-hitter games from 1940 to present, which I still believe is an attainable goal.

PLMK if you have any tickets to pre-1980 no-hitter games that you are willing to sell or trade.

Great pick ups Scott! To what do you attribute the scarcity of the 1977 stub? It seems like a few should be out there.

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by baseball tourist

Great pick ups Scott! To what do you attribute the scarcity of the 1977 stub? It seems like a few should be out there.

Hi Chris,
Thanks, great question! You would sure think that this ticket would be findable, but it's been very elusive.

FWIW, KC Royals, MN Twins, ATL Braves, TX Rangers, OAK A's, MONT Expos. TOR Blue Jays and SD Padres tickets from the 1970's and 1980's are very tough. Their fans for some reason do not typically save their tickets. Additionally, the Royals, for many games in the 1970's, had very light attendance (most games were far less than 10,000 fans). Other ticket collector friends that I know have been similarly challenged in finding Royals baseball ticket stubs from this era...

BTW, I also collect tickets to all Nolan Ryan pitched games regardless of outcome (win, loss or no-decision). Tickets to the cities I mentioned above are all most challenging.
Case in point, until recently I still had 5 KC Royals dates that I needed for my Nolan Ryan ticket collection. It's been at least 3 years since I found the last Ryan ticket at KC. I stumbled on to a seller that had a season ticket holders collection of Royals tickets spanning 3 decades. All of the tickets were neatly taped into a scorebook that the season ticket holder had scored each game. Fortunately the fan attended virtually every game. Along with the Colborn no-hitter ticket, I was fortunate enough to close out all my ticket needs for KC in one shot. Unbelieveable!

I'm getting close to competing my Ryan ticket collection. I currently have 747/807 of Ryan's regular season career pitching appearances (92.5% complete). I have been working on this particular collection since 1972.

[sayhey24]

Picked up these pennants and type I photos of Jim Bagby and Sparky Adams at a local show today.

Greg
www.baseballbasement.com

[sayhey24]

Can't seem to post more than one photo at a time. Here's Bagby with Seattle -- great uniform.

Greg

[eastonfalcon19]

Picked up these at a bottle show today. The first is a postcard is from 1910, the second postcard is from 1907. Pretty cool baseball postcards I thought. I also picked up a boxing postcard of Mickey Landis. On the back he signed it. Does anybody know of Mickey Landis and if the signature is good?

[UnVme7]

I think this is Landis...


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