Here are two neat tickets to add to one of my favorite threads:
Circa 1901-1903 NY Giants baseball ticket.
Who knows, maybe Matty pitched? He did pitch in game 7 in 1901 and 1903, so there's perhaps a 66% chance that he did.
Scarce September 28, 1944 ticket to Johnny Vander Meer's 2nd and final win in the historic Army Navy World War II Championship played in Hawaii.
Behind the dominant pitching of Virgil Trucks and Vander Meer, the Navy squad pounded the Joe D. led Army team 7 games to 2 in this series, which was the brainchild of Admiral Nimitz. Originally slated to be designed to be a 7 game series, it was extended into 9 games due to its popularity with the troops.
Approximately 30 ML players competed in the 1944 Army Navy Championship Series.
Eight of these players would go on to be elected to the Baseball HOF in Cooperstown:
Pee Wee Reese, Joe Gordon, Joe Dimaggio, Bill Dickey, Billy Herman, Red Ruffing, Johnny Mize & Phil Rizzuto
The latter ticket is a nice compliment to the ticket from Vandy's Sept. 23rd win and scorebook that I already have in my collection.
03-20-2016, 06:03 PM
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