March pickups

[Bobmc]

Originally Posted by Bobmc

The 1952 Pony League World Series was held at Washington, Pa.
The program is not particularly fancy as it is in black and white; but quite significant because it represents the first Pony League WS.

There were two players on the first Pony World Series championship team that would later play in the big leagues.

Trivia question:

Who was the winning pitcher and the only other player on that 1952 inaugural Pony League World Series Championship team to play in the Major Leagues?

I'll mail the winning pitcher's signed Topps RC to the 1st member correctly answering the trivia question

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Duluth Eskimo got the correct answer. I thought Mike White would be a name that would stump net54 members -- but Jason knew the answer right away. (

Below is a team pic showing the eventual '52 Pony WS champs in Washington, Pa. Not sure which one is Mike White (6th from left, maybe). Joe Horlen is about the smallest guy on the team, wearing a warm-up jacket. Immediately after this pic was taken, Horlen tossed a nifty shutout as San Antonio, Tx defeated San Bernardino, Ca for his 1st of 2 wins in the WS.

Rudy Davalos, Jr was also on this team. Eventually, Davalos became a very successful Athletic Director at the Univ. of New Mexico following several coaching stints, including the NBA Spurs.

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[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by Bobmc

Duluth Eskimo got the correct answer. I thought Mike White would be a name that would stump net54 members -- but Jason knew the answer right away. (

Below is a team pic showing the eventual '52 Pony WS champs in Washington, Pa. Not sure which one is Mike Wheat (6th from left, maybe). Joe Horlen is about the smallest guy on the team, wearing a warm-up jacket. Immediately after this pic was taken, Horlen tossed a nifty shutout as San Antonio, Tx defeated San Bernardino, Ca for his 1st of 2 wins in the WS.

Rudy Davalos, Jr was also on this team. Eventually, Davalos became a very successful Athletic Director at the Univ. of New Mexico after several coaching stints, including the NBA Spurs.

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Cool photo, Bob! Joel was a physical specimen back then.

[Dave Grob]

Wonderful Wrigley Field flag that dates to after 1938 but before 1945 based on the number of red stars. Over the years I have seen these come to auction on a couple of occasions, but both of those examples had 16 red stars which dates them to after 1945.

Dave Grob

[39special]

Originally Posted by Dave Grob

Wonderful Wrigley Field flag that dates to after 1938 but before 1945 based on the number of red stars. Over the years I have seen these come to auction on a couple of occasions, but both of those examples had 16 red stars which dates them to after 1945.

Dave Grob

Awesome pickup Dave!!

[ruth-gehrig]

Pretty excited to add this double sided porcelain flange sign.

The guy I bought it from states "I received it from a friend who was vacationing in the town of Punta Mita Mexico about 7 years ago and noticed the sign on a building. He got permission to remove it and I acquired it from him. He was told that the building was a sporting goods store until about 1935."

[MGHPro]

Wonderful spalding sign!

[bobfreedman]

Beautiful sign Michael, what size is it?

[71buc]

Awesome cubs flag Dave!

[ruth-gehrig]

Thanks Matt and Bob The sign is approximately 19" in diameter. Its amazing to me that this sign survived up to about 7 years ago on the outside of a building without being disturbed.

[kdixon]

Sign looks great.