February Pick Ups

[rholmes]

The "Cy" pin is awesome, and the game directly above is a beaut. That cover is amazing.

[WillowGrove]

Originally Posted by rholmes

The "Cy" pin is awesome, and the game directly above is a beaut. That cover is amazing.

One of my first pickups of the year is this 1907 Yale vs Harvard game ball. It was the deciding game 3 of their annual 3-game championship, final game being played on neutral territory at the Polo Grounds. The ball is a Spalding Official League Ball...quite rare and exciting in its own right. Notations on the ball include score, date and place, as well as woeful riffs on poetry and song of the day ...so I would think this actually came from a losing Yale player. The signature on the ball looks to be that of a Yale player as well.



By the way, scanning newspapers re: the game I came across one of the funniest paragraphs ever banged out on an Underwood. So...the first half of the game was played in a light rain, and then a downpour continued for the remaining innings (which incidentally explains the loose stitching on the ball). From the NYT, June 30:



Shredded Wheat, anyone?

Funny Ray. Really good research and very interesting piece, congrats.

[rholmes]

Thanks, Peter.

[Butch7999]

Great acquisitions by everybody. In particular, we wanted to congratulate Kris again on his McLoughlin game
and to thank him here as well for his fresh contributions to the McLoughlin article at our site
[ http://baseballgames.dreamhosters.com/BbMcLoughlin.htm ].

[Kris19]

Thanks everyone! If anyone is at all interested, I highly recommend the photo essay linked above. It is excellent!

[Scott Garner]

I just picked up this exceedingly rare full, unused ticket from 9/9/48 at NY Giants.
On this day, Brooklyn Dodgers fire-balling rookie hurler Rex Barney no-hit the hometown favorite NY Giants 6-0. 4 K's and 2 BB.

As background, ticket stubs from this game surface from time to time, although they are somewhat rare.
Full tickets to this game are super tough. I have seen perhaps 3 full tickets to this game enter the hobby through the years. Two of the three were in pretty beat up shape IMHO, and I passed on both.
This guy is the first really nice one that I have ever seen. I had to own it in my collection...

Many thanks to net54 board members Mike, Charles and Joe for all making sure that I saw this ticket and pointing out the auction to me.
Heads ups are always appreciated as it really does take a village to build a great collection.

It's really gratifying to have so many collector friends keeping an eye out for me & I'm eternally grateful!!

[Lordstan]

I haven't posted pickups in a bit, but here's some from the past couple months including one from today

1936 with Hubbell MVPs


1936 on the basepaths


1934 in a pickle


1932 WS with Lazzeri


1929 Lou with Foxx at First

[batsballsbases]

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

I just picked up this exceedingly rare full, unused ticket from 9/9/48 at NY Giants.
On this day, Brooklyn Dodgers fire-balling rookie hurler Rex Barney no-hit the hometown favorite NY Giants 6-0. 4 K's and 2 BB.

As background, ticket stubs from this game surface from time to time, although they are somewhat rare.
Full tickets to this game are super tough. I have seen perhaps 3 full tickets to this game enter the hobby through the years. Two of the three were in pretty beat up shape IMHO, and I passed on both.
This guy is the first really nice one that I have ever seen. I had to own it in my collection...

Many thanks to net54 board members Mike, Charles and Joe for all making sure that I saw this ticket and pointing out the auction to me.
Heads ups are always appreciated as it really does take a village to build a great collection.

It's really gratifying to have so many collector friends keeping an eye out for me & I'm eternally grateful!!

Very nice Scott! Its so nice to know that so many Net54 members have your back if we miss something! Congrats..

[pherbener]

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

I just picked up this exceedingly rare full, unused ticket from 9/9/48 at NY Giants.
On this day, Brooklyn Dodgers fire-balling rookie hurler Rex Barney no-hit the hometown favorite NY Giants 6-0. 4 K's and 2 BB.

As background, ticket stubs from this game surface from time to time, although they are somewhat rare.
Full tickets to this game are super tough. I have seen perhaps 3 full tickets to this game enter the hobby through the years. Two of the three were in pretty beat up shape IMHO, and I passed on both.
This guy is the first really nice one that I have ever seen. I had to own it in my collection...

Many thanks to net54 board members Mike, Charles and Joe for all making sure that I saw this ticket and pointing out the auction to me.
Heads ups are always appreciated as it really does take a village to build a great collection.

It's really gratifying to have so many collector friends keeping an eye out for me & I'm eternally grateful!!

Great pickup Scott! It is great to have all these Net54ers looking out for us and helping with our collections!