Collection Center piece

[mrozie21]

It's hard to pick a center piece of my collection but if I narrowed it down it would have to be my Forbes Field window.

[71buc]

Wow that is beautiful! What's the back story on that piece?

[NiceDocter]

Okay I would like to thank you for that window picture. I showed it to my wife and now she doesn’t mind my boxes of cards and albums so much! LOL 😀 I’m not even going to ask you how the heck you got that thing home and in the room.....

[mrozie21]

So I picked this up at the Hunt Auctions All-Star Game auction in Pittsburgh back in 2006. My mission was to get one of the Forbes Field windows they were auctioning off as well as some of the original 1909 Forbes seats. The 1909 seats were placed in the Allegheny Club at Three Rivers after removal from Forbes.

I had to fly into Pittsburgh and I had rented a U-haul in order to bring these pieces with me back home in Missouri, luckily I won both items and didn't waste my time at the auction!

[sportscomicfantasy]

Originally Posted by mrozie21

It's hard to pick a center piece of my collection but if I narrowed it down it would have to be my Forbes Field window.

Wow! That is just an incredible setup, it looks great! That's what I call living with your collection, love it!

[CarltonHendricks]

Originally Posted by mrozie21

It's hard to pick a center piece of my collection but if I narrowed it down it would have to be my Forbes Field window.

Wow on that window...congrats on that...how did you come into it if I may ask...

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by CarltonHendricks

Wow on that window...congrats on that...how did you come into it if I may ask...

See post #27.

[mr2686]

The great thing about center pieces is that, somewhere down the road, it will be replaced by some other acquisition that is the new center piece...except in the case of that Forbes Field window...that can't be beat.

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by mr2686

The great thing about center pieces is that, somewhere down the road, it will be replaced by some other acquisition that is the new center piece...except in the case of that Forbes Field window...that can't be beat.

Word!
That Forbes window is badass!

[stone193]

Since others have posted theirs - I thought what the heck.

Background - I was only collecting a few years when I went to the National in Atlanta - 1992.

Since the only thing I'd seen prior were the "Holiday Inn" events in Augusta, this was an eye opener!

A table where someone was specializing in WS press pins, jersey tables, an 8 pack 52T cello, the PSA 8 Wagner and then shiny and incredible - a WS trophy.

Last year, Goldin had an auction where no one was bidding on this non-player trophy since it was really dirty and looked pretty bad. I was the only bidder.
And it cleaned up really nice! (Dave Stewart was the MVP that year BTW)

So, here is the "focal" of my collection:

[mrozie21]

Great trophy!!

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by mrozie21

It's hard to pick a center piece of my collection but if I narrowed it down it would have to be my Forbes Field window.

That's pretty amazing