Anyone heard of a Waner/Collins/Speaker… 3k hit ticket

[GDoggy]

Finally found a Don Sutton 3000th strikeout. This is the first I have ever seen. Seems odd that it was this hard to find. The game was a home game and there were 46,037 at the game. PSA rates this ticket a 3. I have had his 300th win for a while, also rated as a 3, and have seen at least 1/2 dozen out there. Just wondering if anyone else has a Sutton 3000.

[mcgwirecom]

Hi, I had one several years ago but sold a lot of stuff when I needed cash. Trying to get them all back. Do you have the Gibson 3K ? Its a bit difficult. I actually also owned the Johnson 3K. Randy AND Walter! Hard to believe? A guy was selling it on Ebay as just a Walter Johnson win. I recognized the date as his 3000th strikeout (the date most widely recognized, there is some discrepancy) I consigned it to an major auction and they lost it! Along with a couple other stubs I sent. I did keep a scan of it...

[GDoggy]

That Johnson obviously is/was the Holy Grail of 3,000 strikeout tickets. So what did they say / do about the loss?

I do not have a Gibson. Went after two different ones, but got out bid. Both were at least two years ago and both went for, if I remember correctly, something like $250 to $350 (not sure, but more than I thought).

I am also still missing Perry (I see lots of post-dates, but only one legit), Jenkins (zero graded/auth), Niekro (only one graded/auth) and Blyleven (this is suppose to be easy, rated a 2, but only one has been graded/auth). Seems more people would be into the 3k strikeouts, since is possible to have a complete collection.

[mcgwirecom]

Well we went around and around about it. I was pretty upset because I don't know of another and really wanted to see it go to auction. You never know what two guys will bid something up to. I think it may have gone to $2500 which was my guesstimate. They countered with something like $400 because it was out of a book and not dated, yadda yadda yadda. Plus there were two other tickets lost, a Mantle last homerun and a Roger Clemens debut in Cleveland which there were only 4004 people at. Negotiations went on for a while but I really needed the cash so I settled at something like $1200. But I made out better in the long run as they accidentally paid me twice.

Here is a scan of the Gibson 3K stub. Strangely enough he was only the SECOND guy to get there! Also pictured is the Perry 3K stub. Padres tickets stubs are not so easily found. I collect a lot of different baseball themes and there are certain cities that are very difficult to get tickets from.

If you are interested in the Perry shoot me a private email. I have a spare one.