Any One Collect Pins?

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by Chris Counts

"Any team/player combo on the list that COULDN'T be from 1970"

Many of the players joined their teams after 1970, such as Dick Allen, who first played for the White Sox in 1972, and Rusty Staub, who joined the Mets the same year. Allen also has a button with the Cardinals. Frank Robinson didn't join the Angels until 1973.

I think my research on the Giants showed the Giants pins had to be 1972-73.

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by ooo-ribay

I think my research on the Giants showed the Giants pins had to be 1972-73.

Tom Bradley didn't become a Giant until 1973, so he has to be a 1973 issue. The photo for the Tom Bradley Giants pin was no doubt taken during 1973 spring training. I can't find it now (I wish I had taken a scan) but on my original search through WorthPoint looking for these black box pins I saw a pic of the Tom Bradley pin with the White Sox which in turn means that White Sox pin must be a 1972 issue. ETA, if the Giants pins were made in 1972 I would think there would be a Willie Mays. Even though he was traded in May of 1972, I can’t imagine that if they had a bunch of Mays Giants pins in production that they would then destroy all of them only because he was traded. Edited again: Uh oh, my own theory blew up in my face. Tom Bradley was traded FOR Ken Henderson in November 1972, so the Henderson Giants pin can only be a 1972 issue. Maybe the SAN FRANCISCO pins are 1972, and the SAN FRAN. pins are 1973 ?

[MK]

Originally Posted by Cliff Bowman

Tom Bradley didn't become a Giant until 1973, so he has to be a 1973 issue. The photo for the Tom Bradley Giants pin was no doubt taken during 1973 spring training. I can't find it now (I wish I had taken a scan) but on my original search through WorthPoint looking for these black box pins I saw a pic of the Tom Bradley pin with the White Sox which in turn means that White Sox pin must be a 1972 issue. ETA, if the Giants pins were made in 1972 I would think there would be a Willie Mays. Even though he was traded in May of 1972, I can’t imagine that if they had a bunch of Mays Giants pins in production that they would then destroy all of them only because he was traded. Edited again: Uh oh, my own theory blew up in my face. Tom Bradley was traded FOR Ken Henderson in November 1972, so the Henderson Giants pin can only be a 1972 issue.

The Ron Santo White Sox pin had to be made in 1974 as he was still with the Cubs in 1973. There has to be others that were made as late as 74 but unless they changed teams it impossible to tell

[MK]

Was this one on the list? BTW he wasn’t in the majors until 1975.

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by MK

Was this one on the list? BTW he wasn’t in the majors until 1975.

No he isn’t, and now that extends the time frame from 1970 to 1975. I will add him to the checklist. I ran across some circa 1975 pins of Fred Lynn and Jim Rice that were very similar to these but they didn’t have BOSTON or RED SOX printed in the black box so I didn’t include them. I did see a Rick Burleson pin with a different photo but the black box was partially covered by another pin so I couldn’t see if RED SOX was in the black box or not. ETA, after you mentioned the Hobson pin I looked up Hobson pins on WP and found this interesting lot that included two error pins, Burleson and Hobson each with switched photos. Apparently these were an early printing error that were quickly corrected.

[jimtigers65]

Added a nice 1969 Detroit Tiger team pin back button to my collection.

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[Cliff Bowman]

Ran across this interesting Denny McLain pin on WP, it appears to be a legitimate 1969 MLB pin, but it is 6" in diameter(!) and has a cardboard easel back.