December Pickups

[vintagesportscollector]

These Hassan Cigarette comic pins are very common, with an endless number of variations, but this particular one has been quite elusive for me, as I've been looking for a while.

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[mjkm90]

Originally Posted by vintagesportscollector

These Hassan Cigarette comic pins are very common, with an endless number of variations, but this particular one has been quite elusive for me, as I've been looking for a while.

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Love the Hassan pins Joe. Don't think I've seen the Cornell,pin before

Super cool addition!

[ksfarmboy]

Just got this neat belt buckle.

[slidekellyslide]

Originally Posted by ksfarmboy

Just got this neat belt buckle.

Very cool!! Not something you see every day.

[ksfarmboy]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

Very cool!! Not something you see every day.

Thanks and you are right first I've seen from Kansas. Plus it's real tough to find things from the 20's -30's eras.

[murphusa]

Santa's

[icollectDCsports]

Originally Posted by murphusa

Santa's

Those are awesome. Imagine a minor league team named the Santas and the uniform possibilities. Haha.

[JoeyFarino]

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[jb217676]

Here's a Lefty Grove Testimonial Dinner Program from Saturday, June 8, 1940. Lefty signed it on the inside of the front cover.

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by jb217676

Here's a Lefty Grove Testimonial Dinner Program from Saturday, June 8, 1940. Lefty signed it on the inside of the front cover.

Great Lefty Grove piece!

[Scott Garner]

Here is a cool pickup that I scored tonight on eBay related to Johnny Vander Meer's baseball stint in the Navy:

An original program to the game played on August 13, 1944 between The US Naval Training Center (Sampson, NY) vs. Laconing Aviation of Williamsport, PA.
Apparently Lyconing got smoked 14-1 in this one.
If you look at Vandy's team roster, it obviously stacked with several MLB players.
Sampson was apparently undefeated to other 22 other baseball teams that included the Cleveland Indians, Boston Braves, Boston Red Sox and Vandy's former ML Cincinnati Reds team up to this point in their season.
I can't imagine that many of these scorebooks survived WWII. Certainly primitive looking, but that was a sign of the times I suppose...

This is a great complimentary piece to other items that I own related to Vandy's stint at Sampson. I also included my favorite other piece from this era.
A signed photo of Vandy's entire basic training class (Company 347) at Sampson in March of 1944.