Show Something That Could Be in the Baseball Hall of Fame

[Bicem]

Great character David! Wonder how many would have done the same?

[EYECOLLECTVINTAGE]

Originally Posted by Bpm0014

I wanted to start a cool thread. "Show something you own that could belong in the Baseball Hall of Fame". It could be a card, an autograph, or a piece of memorabilia. It also gives you the chance to brag or show off something from your collection. I'm not really interested in seeing 2-3 pieces, but rather just that one piece that totally WOULD NOT BE OUT OF PLACE in the Baseball Hall of Fame. After some time, I'd like to start a poll and see who the top vote-getter is. Also, please feel free to (light-heartedly) put down or make fun of those pieces in which you deem not worthy. It will be encouraged here! I'll try to take a picture of something I have, that I feel is worthy, when I get home. Otherwise, let's see some pics!

SICKKK IDEA

Originally Posted by packs

I could see the Hall being interested in this. Here is a Type 1 original photo of the moment Joe D extended his historic streak to 56 games:

That is a great piece

[Dewey]

Jackie signing with Montreal. My favorite piece. I could imagine it part of a display, despite my garbage scanning crop job.

[Jason19th]

Here is the only known program from Jackie Robinson's all star tour which was done in the late fall of 1946 - just before he broke through in 47- the tour features a team made up of both negro leaguers and white minor leaguers from the montreal team. Probably the first time that an integrated team played a white team in a major league park

[Jobu]

This is an original panoramic photo (8" x 21") of Mickey Mantle on his first pro team, the semi-pro Whiz Kids, from 1947 when he was 16 years old. Mantle and a few of the other players have signed the picture (the other sigs are barely legible). The condition is a bit rough because it is an original that belonged to one of the kids in the picture, Guy Crow, who was the bat boy (left end of the right bench). This may also be the first photo of Mantle associated with baseball as his high school yearbooks don't have baseball photos in them though who knows what is still in his family.

[bbcard1]

I've written about this before, but seems interesting to me. Worthy of a local hall of fame and depending on your point of view, not too far out of place in the real one.

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=159410

[Zach Wheat]

Originally Posted by Bicem

Great character David! Wonder how many would have done the same?

+1. Nice, David.

Cool idea for a thread. I've enjoyed the pics....keep them coming.

[nat]

"The foresight that someone showed to get that Mack card signed absolutely boggles the mind."


Mack lived to be a very old man. They could have gotten it signed in the mid 1950s. Autographs were a thing by then, even if people weren't really after ball player's autos in the 1880s.

Of course if you mean that it took some foresight to get a 70 year old card signed in the 1950s, that's true too. But even if you never expected it to be worth any money, it would be cool to have something that old signed by a manager of Mack's caliber.

[ALR-bishop]

The original of this, which includes my wife's grandfather, does appear in the HOF and in the Louisville Slugger Bat museum. ( the photo only, not the obit)

[z28jd]

This I actually have thought about loaning to a baseball museum, but that would be the Babe Ruth Museum down in Baltimore. It's a bat from the movie The Babe Ruth Story and it belonged to William Bendix at one time, then his relatives, who were great friends with my grandparents. Probably went untouched from the time it was stored away until I put my grubby 7-year-old hands on it. Luckily it was too big to swing back then and it has remained on display since I got it. That's why it's in such great shape.

[triwak]

Shown many times before, but probably the cornerstone of my collection.

[ajjohnsonsoxfan]

What's baseball without some cracker jacks! This is one of the earliest known surviving boxes circa 1912. Because the more you eat, the more you want!

[Bpm0014]

The William Bendix bat could DEFINITELY belong in the HOF. That's a great piece!

[btcarfagno]

1951 Battle Creek Belles team signed ball with manager Dave Bancroft on an official AAGPBL ball







AAGPBL contract signed by one of the great stars in league history Ruth Richard and HOFer Max Carey.



Tom C

[Huysmans]

Originally Posted by ajjohnsonsoxfan

What's baseball without some cracker jacks! This is one of the earliest known surviving boxes circa 1912. Because the more you eat, the more you want!

That Cracker Jack box A. J. ....... is a crackerjack!!