Let's See Your Holy Grail - Prize Possession - #1 Item

[CW]

Originally Posted by ScottR81

My Cubs Fav's

Amazing displays!

Originally Posted by MVSNYC

Circa 1956 Mantle Game Used Bat.

Museum worthy!

[h2oya311]

Originally Posted by jcmtiger

This was my Holy Grail, now at REA for the Spring 2016 auction.
1904 thru 1911 Detroit Baseball Club Financial Ledger. A few pages pictured.

Joe

Wow! Pretty awesome! That's not my cup o' tea, but it is certainly a unique item! Good luck with the sale!

[Howe’s Hunter]

Originally Posted by jcmtiger

1904 thru 1911 Detroit Baseball Club Financial Ledger. A few pages pictured.

If I'm reading this correctly, Cobb was getting less than George Mullin and Stanage?

[Bestdj777]

Here's mine. A 1959 Venezuelan:

[almostdone]

Not a holy grail n the same sence of the word but defiantly an original one of a kind and I love just looking at it and thinking about how it all came together. A few years ago I started doing through the mail autograph requests from former players. By far the nicest and one of the most gracious players was former Brooklyn Dogers pitcher Carl Erskine. He ne I actually ended up writing back and forth a number of times.i decided to put together a custom piece featuring one of his greatest accomplishments. In the 1953 World Series he set a record by striking out 14 Yankees in one game (since been broken).
I sent him a photo of him pitching which he signed with the record breaking inscription. Then he listed the names of each strikeout victim in order across the top. I ended up matting the photo with a ticket stub to the game as well as a 1961 Nu Scoops card describing the accomplishment and a index card which he deceived the toughest strikeout that day.
It doesn't have a ton of monetary value like so many items posted here but I know it is 100% unique and it's hanging in my room making it 100% mine.
Thanks for reading. Enjoy.
Drew

[jcmtiger]

Originally Posted by StuckInOmaha

If I'm reading this correctly, Cobb was getting less than George Mullin and Stanage?

Yes 4 players were being paid more than Cobb.. This was at the beginning of his career that started in Summer of 1905.

Joe

[grainsley]

Long story short: Over in OBC, Billy Hoeft was the inspiration for our Hall of Mediocrity. (Not a slam, these guys all made it to the bigs.) He fascinated me because of his multiple variation cards...I looked into his story, (quite a guy!) and started the Billy Hoeft Fan Club. For a long time there was just one member, me. His Son, Bill Jr., found the site while surfing his Dad's history, and emailed to find out what the Fan Club was all about. Some time long after, Bill Jr. emailed to ask if I would like to hook up with his Dad on the phone, they were having a family reunion. Well, almost three hours on the phone with Billy Hoeft. Got to ask him all kinds of stuff, and I think he enjoyed it every bit as much as I did. This card was sent to me by an OBC'er, one of the most generous people I have ever met in my life. It is a treasure to me.

[HOF Auto Rookies]

A very humbling thread. Love it! Keep them coming!


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[71buc]

I never grow tired of this piece. I get chills every time I roll out across my living room floor. It reeks of a simpler time in my life pre cancer, pre mortgage, pre-parenthood, pre career. Back then only thing that mattered was my infatuation with the 1971 Pirates. They have always been my favorite team and Roberto Clemente my favorite player. I was eight that year and fell hard for baseball because of him and that group of players. I loved them all, Stargell’s bat twirl, Blass’ enthusiasm, Sanguillen’s gap tooth grin, Dave Cash’s fro, and the bad ass attitude of Doc Ellis. I still do. My favorite item in my collection is the 1971 National League Championship banner that hung in right field at Three Rivers Stadium during Game 3 of the 1971 World Series (see the screen captures below). For this Pirate fan to have the opportunity to own the actual 1971 National League Championship banner won by my all-time favorite team, that hung above my childhood hero, during my favorite world series...priceless.

[SyrNy1960]

I think I'm in big trouble. I have been collecting for over 40 years. Started out with sports cards, then collecting odd ball sports stuff, then collecting autographs. 10 years ago, I came across GameUsedUniverse and got hooked on collecting Game Used Memorabilia (my prize possessions are Alex Rodriguez 1st Career Grand Slam Bat GU PSA 9.5; a 2009 Alex Rodriguez Game Used Bat GU PSA 10 (photo matched to 17 games; 44 at bats; hit HR's #575 and #576)) given to me by Arod; and a 1997 Alex Rodriguez Game Used Fielding Glove). Now since starting this thread and seeing all the AWESOME older cards, photos, etc., has now got me thinking that I want to start collecting older cards. I'm in big trouble!

[shernan30]

Originally Posted by 71buc

I never grow tired of this piece. I get chills every time I roll out across my living room floor. It reeks of a simpler time in my life pre cancer, pre mortgage, pre-parenthood, pre career. Back then only thing that mattered was my infatuation with the 1971 Pirates. They have always been my favorite team and Roberto Clemente my favorite player. I was eight that year and fell hard for baseball because of him and that group of players. I loved them all, Stargell’s bat twirl, Blass’ enthusiasm, Sanguillen’s gap tooth grin, Dave Cash’s fro, and the bad ass attitude of Doc Ellis. I still do. My favorite item in my collection is the 1971 National League Championship banner that hung in right field at Three Rivers Stadium during Game 3 of the 1971 World Series (see the screen captures below). For this Pirate fan to have the opportunity to own the actual 1971 National League Championship banner won by my all-time favorite team, that hung above my childhood hero, during my favorite world series...priceless.

What a piece of history, Mike. Knowing stuff like this is in the hands of true fans is awesome.


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[Mark70Z]

Mike,

May have mentioned it before when you picked up the banner, but the '71 NL Championship banner is just an awesome piece of memorabilia. It makes it even better that it's in the hands of someone that truly enjoys the banner as well has that special attachment to it being your favorite team and Series. Doesn't get much better than that.

Thanks for sharing the pictures and footage, w/it pictured, of your grail item.

[keating3620]

Paid extra to complete my diamond stars set in PSA5 but it was worth it.

[bluespruce]

Great thread!

I'm mostly a schedule collector, and this is my collection's holy grail - Princeton football schedule from Hobey Baker's senior season.

(I'd love to complement it someday with a Baker-era hockey schedule from Princeton, but have never seen one.)

I acquired this one as part of a lot of ~15 older Ivy League schedules I purchased a year or two ago. The seller had told me he had a few to sell, but no other details. He then emailed me scans of what he had available, and the very first photo I saw was this schedule. I almost fell off my chair!