Ticket collectors, show us your tickets !

[Scott Garner]

Many thanks to net54's David Shakir for finding this 1953 St. Louis Browns season pass for me.

In addition to this being the final year of the St. Louis Browns organization before their move to Baltimore, this also was the year that Bobo Holloman pitched a no-hitter in his 1st ML start.

Bobo Holloman's no-hitter IMHO ranks as the most unlikely to ever have been pitched. Holloman won only 3 games in 1953 before being assigned to Toronto, never to return to the ML.

Only a miserly 2,473 fans attended this game due to nasty weather.
The weather was actually so bad that Bill Veeck, master promoter and owner of the Brownie's, offered to let the fans that braved the weather to attend any other 1953 Browns game for free.
I suspect that in order to attend this bonus game, that a fan would have had to surrender their ticket to Holloman's no-hitter on May 6th as proof that they were actually there.

In any case, Holloman's no-hitter ticket has been ever-elusive in my quest to find every no-hit ticket post WWII.
This pass in of itself is rare, and will provide a nice placeholder in my no-hit ticket collection until I can find an actual ticket to this game.

[Gary Dunaier]

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

Many thanks to net54's David Shakir for finding this 1953 St. Louis Browns season pass for me.

Wait a minute... a season ticket in 1953 was only fifty cents?!

What am I missing here?

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by Gary Dunaier

Wait a minute... a season ticket in 1953 was only fifty cents?!

What am I missing here?

Gary,
I'm assuming that the pass was issued as a complimentary pass (friend of the owner, etc.) but legally certain taxes/fees still needed to be collected.
BTW, complimentary annual passes are not super unusual as I have seen others from other teams as well.

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

Gary,
I'm assuming that the pass was issued as a complimentary pass (friend of the owner, etc.) but legally certain taxes/fees still needed to be collected.
BTW, complimentary annual passes are not super unusual as I have seen others from other teams as well.

When I do settlements at concerts I often need include taxes due on the complimentary tickets that were issued for the show as an expense.

[mr2686]

Just picked this one up. Career win number 160 for Catfish Hunter.

[71buc]

Here are two pickups of rather pedestrian tickets. Well they aren’t pedestrian to me. As stated earlier 1971 Houston and San Diego Stubs are very difficult to come by. In five years these are the only two I have added to my collection. The seller of the Padres stub has since sold two other 1971 Pirates at San Diego stubs. I was an under bidder on both. The prices were so ridiculous even though I needed them I couldn’t justify spending the money. I included a screenshot of that silliness.

[mr2686]

Originally Posted by 71buc

Here are two pickups of rather pedestrian tickets. Well they aren’t pedestrian to me. As stated earlier 1971 Houston and San Diego Stubs are very difficult to come by. In five years these are the only two I have added to my collection. The seller of the Padres stub has since sold two other 1971 Pirates at San Diego stubs. I was an under bidder on both. The prices were so ridiculous even though I needed them I couldn’t justify spending the money. I included a screenshot of that silliness.

Ouch. Someone collecting Clemente hit tickets? Like you said, a pedestrian game/games but if they don't come up often then the bidding often gets out of hand.

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by mr2686

Just picked this one up. Career win number 160 for Catfish Hunter.

What's an "audit stub?"

[mr2686]

Originally Posted by Hankphenom

What's an "audit stub?"

The audit stub was the portion of the ticket that the usher would tear off and keep for accounting purposes.