January Pickups

[sayhey24]

Hi Scott,

Quick question about the '67 pin back -- have you found background info linking it to Allie Reynolds?

Greg

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by sayhey24

Hi Scott,

Quick question about the '67 pin back -- have you found background info linking it to Allie Reynolds?

Greg

Hi Greg,
Happy New Year!
The person that sold this to me on eBay a few years ago indicated that the pin originated from a HOF vote in '67 for Allie Reynolds.
At the time I didn't question it because this was at the point that Allie Reynolds received his highest percentage vote in his quest to enter the HOF.

This HOF excerpt is from Wikipedia on Allie Reynolds:

Baseball Hall of Fame candidacy

"When Reynolds was eligible for election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers' Association of America, his highest vote percentage was 33.6% in the 1968 balloting, short of the 75 percent required for election.[21] That year, he finished ahead of future Hall of Famers Arky Vaughan, Pee Wee Reese, Phil Rizzuto, George Kell, Hal Newhouser, Bob Lemon, and Bobby Doerr.

Reynolds was named as one of the ten former players that began their careers before 1943 to be considered by the Hall of Fame's Veterans Committee for induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2009.[40] He received eight votes, one shy of the nine votes required for election.[21] Reynolds was on the new Golden Era Committee ballot in 2011 for 2012, (replaced the Veterans Committee)[21] receiving fewer than three votes (12 votes are required for election to the Hall of Fame).[41] The Committee meets and votes every three years on ten candidates selected from the 1947 to 1972 era. He was not a candidate in 2014 (none were elected by the committee).

Rob Neyer, in evaluating Reynolds' candidacy, believes Reynolds was "probably as good" as Jesse Haines, Lefty Gomez and Waite Hoyt, who have all been inducted into the Hall of Fame. However, he added that "they’re all marginals."[21] Adapting Bill James' sabermetric statistic known as win shares, Dr. Michael Hoban, a professor emeritus of mathematics at City University of New York, found that Reynolds falls short of his threshold for induction, and scored lower than Haines and Gomez.[21]"

[sayhey24]

Thanks Scott -- HOF voting has always been tough to figure.

I saw that pin back once and assumed it referred to NY Giants coach Allie Sherman -- good to know it's actually a baseball pin.


Greg

[earlywynnfan]

Added some WWII service team jerseys in the last few months. The dark one is denim blue with grey letters, looks awesome in person.

Ken

[GrayGhost]

Cant' find a non sport pickup. but like this, some of it cut off scanner. George Harrison/Ravi Shankar 1974 Tour program. HARE KRISNA (Maybe for sale soon)