November Pick-Ups

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by rlevy

Scott, great collection! I was wondering, since so many of the teams don't print tickets for their season ticket holders, is it more difficult to find no-hitter tickets for games pitched recently than for games pitched in the good old days?

Rick

Thanks Rick!
There is no doubt that teams no-longer printing tickets is going to make collecting my theme extremely challenging moving forward. It's really sad because it eventually will lead to the death of collecting a theme like this.
When this happens I've come to the conclusion that I will have to focus my collecting to only vintage tickets.

Re; your question, each scenario has its own unique set of challenges.

In the good old days, fans didn't frequently save their tickets because they were often viewed as yesterday's trash and were tossed. To add to this, WWII saw paper items of all types disappear due to the war effort. Finding vintage tickets is a bit like finding a needle in a haystack (as I know you're aware of) since you collect Koufax tickets. For this reason I believe that vintage tickets will always have value because of limited supply and increasing demand.
The amount of baseball ticket collectors in the hobby has increased dramatically since 1998 and vintage tickets, like other memorabilia, still rules the roost IMHO.

Modern cardboard season tickets are infrequently actually being used by many seat holders due to e-tickets, leading to a prevalence of perfect mint tickets that are not torn like their earlier predecessors. This makes for easier collecting, but reduced potential for ever becoming a collectable that increases in value.

Even though this may be a crazy analogy, I actually see collecting vintage tickets to be a bit like collecting antique milk bottles. Eventually neither may exist, but there will still be collectors because of the novelty of them being reminiscent of a bygone era...

[ooo-ribay]

I asked my wife, "Who holds onto hotel soap from 70 years ago?" Her answer was "hoarders."

The Giants owned this place and conducted Spring Training there in the 40s and 50s.

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by ooo-ribay

I asked my wife, "Who holds onto hotel soap from 70 years ago?" Her answer was "hoarders."

The Giants owned this place and conducted Spring Training there in the 40s and 50s.

Rob,
Is your wife calling you a hoarder now that you own the 70 year old Giants soap?

[71buc]

We are all pathetic hoarders to some degree.

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by 71buc

We are all pathetic hoarders to some degree.

Yes we are!

[pherbener]

Originally Posted by 71buc

We are all pathetic hoarders to some degree.

Agreed! Just ask my wife.

[GKreindler]

Brad, that Hughie is an absolute STUNNER. I DEFINITEY wanna paint that someday. Wonderful pick-up.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by 71buc

We are all pathetic hoarders to some degree.

What are you going to do with all those 1971 ticket stubs?

I need you to come over for dinner one night so I can show off my new man-cave furnishings.

[Tay1038]

Not many people will recognize his name, but for those that do will appreciate it. I recently acquired this 1930s Oscar George "Ox" Eckhardt Hillerich & Bradsby game used bat. Very heavy use shown with countless ball marks, stitch marks, and slight dead wood suggesting this gamer was deployed for full service!

Eckhardt holds the all-time professional baseball record for batting average, counting both major and minor league stats. Eckhardt .367 career batting average ends up fractionally ahead of #2 Ty Cobb, who’s career .366 is lowered marginally by his minor league stats.

[icollectDCsports]

Originally Posted by Tay1038

Not many people will recognize his name, but for those that do will appreciate it. I recently acquired this 1930s Oscar George "Ox" Eckhardt Hillerich & Bradsby game used bat. Very heavy use shown with countless ball marks, stitch marks, and slight dead wood suggesting this gamer was deployed for full service!

Eckhardt holds the all-time professional baseball record for batting average, counting both major and minor league stats. Eckhardt .367 career batting average ends up fractionally ahead of #2 Ty Cobb, who’s career .366 is lowered marginally by his minor league stats.

I don't recognize the name but that sure is a great bat. Excellent game use evident, as you point out. Congrats.

[Mark]

Originally Posted by Tay1038

Not many people will recognize his name, but for those that do will appreciate it. I recently acquired this 1930s Oscar George "Ox" Eckhardt Hillerich & Bradsby game used bat. Very heavy use shown with countless ball marks, stitch marks, and slight dead wood suggesting this gamer was deployed for full service!

Eckhardt holds the all-time professional baseball record for batting average, counting both major and minor league stats. Eckhardt .367 career batting average ends up fractionally ahead of #2 Ty Cobb, who’s career .366 is lowered marginally by his minor league stats.

That fact is a tremendous thing to know, and the bat is a superb piece, too. Is it part of a theme of your collection? Such as players whose stats surpass Cobb's stats in one category? Minor league pheenoms?

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by ooo-ribay

I asked my wife, "Who holds onto hotel soap from 70 years ago?" Her answer was "hoarders."

The Giants owned this place and conducted Spring Training there in the 40s and 50s.

I guess the same people who hold onto complimentary items from the Giants' next hotel and Spring Training site (1960s). The white "rain bonnet" is my latest pickup. I also have all kinds of paper ephemera from this place.

[matty39]

Just picked up a type 8 bf3 of Monty Stratton. Never seen before or even knew that it existed. For me it was a great find.These are so rare, they are not even listed in the Standard Catalog.

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by matty39

Just picked up a type 8 bf3 of Monty Stratton. Never seen before or even knew that it existed. For me it was a great find.These are so rare, they are not even listed in the Standard Catalog.

Picking up something you never even knew existed is THE BEST!

[MK]

Was able to acquire these two scarce pins recently. The Yankees Old Times Day was obtained from a Board Member who was nice enough to offer it to me for a reasonable price. The Cubs I got from Hake's Auction and had been in the Muchinsky Collection. It had come up on eBay several years ago and Paul outbid me. I was able to buy it and eight other Cub pins from the auction for less than Paul gave for this pin alone. I was surprised and happy!

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by MK

The Cubs I got from Hake's Auction and had been in the Muchinsky Collection. It had come up on eBay several years ago and Paul outbid me. I was able to buy it and eight other Cub pins from the auction for less than Paul gave for this pin alone. I was surprised and happy!

Back in the day, Paul was tough to beat!

[batsballsbases]

Originally Posted by MK

Was able to acquire these two scarce pins recently. The Yankees Old Times Day was obtained from a Board Member who was nice enough to offer it to me for a reasonable price. The Cubs I got from Hake's Auction and had been in the Muchinsky Collection. It had come up on eBay several years ago and Paul outbid me. I was able to buy it and eight other Cub pins from the auction for less than Paul gave for this pin alone. I was surprised and happy!

Beautiful pins Mike ! Im happy it went to a good home ! Enjoy It.....

[JMEnglish27]

Originally Posted by ooo-ribay

I guess the same people who hold onto complimentary items from the Giants' next hotel and Spring Training site (1960s). The white "rain bonnet" is my latest pickup. I also have all kinds of paper ephemera from this place.

I love that. Totally get it - I'd be all over that stuff.

[MartyFromCANADA]

'67 Senators gamer. Dick Lines.

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[yanksfan09]

Happy to add this type 1 of Ruth from his 1923 season with President Harding.

Back caption says "President sees Babe Ruth hit homer and Yankees defeat of Washington"

Congratulating him after homerun between innings

From the year of Ruth's highest batting average, OBP, Walks and MVP award. Plus, the Yankees first year in the stadium and first championship! Great piece for a Yankee and Ruth fan!

[tjb1952tjb]

Warren Harding died August 2, 1923.................wonder what is date of photo?

I checked the 1923 Yankee box scores. Ruth didn't hit a HR on the road against Washington. He did hit 3 HR's at Yankee Stadium vs. Washington. He hit HR #2 on 4-24-23; HR #15 on 7-2-23; HR #16 on 7-3-23. With the bunting shown in the photo I would assume the photo was taken on July 2nd or July 3rd (Independence Day Yankee homestand). If so, it was one month before Harding's death.

I did some more research. President Harding attended the Senators game on 4-24-1923 for the inaugural season at Yankee Stadium. The date of the photo is certainly April 24, 1923.....3 1/2 months before Harding's death.