October Pickup Thread

[CarltonHendricks]

Originally Posted by Kzoo

I'll start it off this month...

I've been looking for awhile to get a nice store display baseball bat rack and I found this one today at an estate auction 1.5 hours away. I'm guessing it's from the 70's, but maybe 60's? Does anyone else have one like this? The top has a threaded hole, probably for some sort of advertising sign. The rack holds 42 bats and is about 41" tall.

The rack had about 20 bats on it when I bought it, all of which are garbage except 1 gamer from Dave Ricketts who was on the '67 Cardinals.

Can't wait to put my own bats on it for display.

Pretty interesting congrats...Can you take a shot with bats on it....I've never seen anything like it...

[ksfarmboy]

Great bat Ron!

[Joe Hunter]

Pick up this very interesting 1973 baseball card show program. The show was sponsored by the American Sports Card Collectors Association and held in New York City. From what I can tell, this was the first major card show held in NYC. The letter on the inside front cover is interesting.

[Joe Hunter]

Here is a more readable photo of the letter in the program.

[Jgrace]

Originally Posted by Joe Hunter

Here is a more readable photo of the letter in the program.

Prices are rising at a "dizzying pace" - it would be fascinating to see some examples from those days.

[BeanTown]

Just got this Tigers schedule in. Wondering if I should have someone clean up the stains/glue marks on it? I normally hate cleaning/restoration, but Im also a little OCD as well.

[TCMA]

Originally Posted by Joe Hunter

Pick up this very interesting 1973 baseball card show program. The show was sponsored by the American Sports Card Collectors Association and held in New York City. From what I can tell, this was the first major card show held in NYC. The letter on the inside front cover is interesting.

Joe, I’ve got one of those programs as well. Mike Aronstein, one of the hosts mentioned there, is my dad. Those ASCCA shows ran throughout the 70’s but I wasn’t born until ‘78 and never got to experience one, unfortunately.



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[Joe Hunter]

Andrew, that so cool that your father was one of the pioneers of the hobby. Certainly this show was one of the precursors of the National. I doubt that in 1973 those promoters could have envisioned where the hobby is, today(both the good and bad). I just found it fascinating reading. I think I attended my first major card show in 1983.

[71buc]

These trophy bats were presented to the players and management of the 1971 Pirates. Joe Otoole was General Manager Joe L Brown's assistant.

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by 71buc

These trophy bats were presented to the players and management of the 1971 Pirates. Joe Otoole was General Manager Joe L Brown's assistant.

Sweet! No apostrophe in Otoole?