My Holy Grail!....After 30 Years.

[SyrNy1960]

Congrats on obtaining your Holy Grail. Enjoy hearing stories like this!

[ooo-ribay]

Congratulations, Joe! The research on your website is fantastic, too!

[GoCubsGo32]

Wow! That is pretty awesome! Congrats!

[Scott Garner]

Congrats Joe! Super cool additions to your collection.
Just curious, why Cornell as a focus? Did you graduate from there?

[71buc]

Kudos on a fantastic addition to your collection! Now that you have landed your white whale what’s next?

[vintagesportscollector]

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

Congrats Joe! Super cool additions to your collection.
Just curious, why Cornell as a focus? Did you graduate from there?

Thanks Scott. I did graduate from there, that is where my wife and I met and started are family. We have two wonderful adult daughters. I love history and sports...as some may know I have/had the website - antiquesportscollector.com

That site was created in 2004 and is now so obsolete I can no longer update and maintain it. I will keep it up as a reference for others, but it can't be updated, and it was time for a new site. I have since sold off most of my non-Cornell sports collection (uniforms, bats, gloves, trophies, balls, etc...) and downsized to an apartment, but have kept all the Cornell pieces and continue to focus there. My wife is really supportive in allowing me to display in our apartment.

As for now catching my white whale...that has only given me more drive to find other pieces and learn their history - but there is great sense of piece and accomplishment that I don't have to go overboard. If I miss an item, so be it, there will be others.

Thanks
Joe

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by vintagesportscollector

Thanks Scott. I did graduate from there, that is where my wife and I met and started are family. We have two wonderful adult daughters. I love history and sports...as some may know I have/had the website - antiquesportscollector.com

That site was created in 2004 and is now so obsolete I can no longer update and maintain it. I will keep it up as a reference for others, but it can't be updated, and it was time for a new site. I have since sold off most of my non-Cornell sports collection (uniforms, bats, gloves, trophies, balls, etc...) and downsized to an apartment, but have kept all the Cornell pieces and continue to focus there. My wife is really supportive in allowing me to display in our apartment.

As for now catching my white whale...that has only given me more drive to find other pieces and learn their history - but there is great sense of piece and accomplishment that I don't have to go overboard. If I miss an item, so be it, there will be others.

Thanks
Joe

Great stuff, Joe! Congrats again on your White Whale pickup.
These are always great & I can totally relate.

[nebboy]

Great pickup and story. Major pickup!

Side note my high school son first choice for college is - Cornell for
Biological Engineering in College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

[LEHR]

The jersey, coat, and photo are all amazing! Congrats on a "holy grail" addition!

[vintagesportscollector]

Thanks all for your comments! Putting a story behind an item is what drives me. These pieces wouldn't mean half as much to me, if I couldn't put a name and a face to it - in this case much more than that! I love the newspaper accounts of Hasting's playing ball - in one game against Harvard scoring the games only run, the winning run, on a Squeeze play in the 10th inning, and then being carried off the field by the crowd.

Hastings played on the 1906 team coached by Glenn S. "Pop" Warner and assistant coach Hughie Jennings...can you imagine! That team was ranked second, and the following year, under Coach Coogan, they were intercollegiate champs (tied with Princeton).

I love discovering background stories...on my "What's New?" page there is a 1910 baseball picture of Bill Matchneer, and accounts of him being hit in the Face by a baseball and being hit by a Train...all in the dame day!

https://www.iyellcornell.com/copy-of-cornelliana


Thanks for letting me share.
Cheers
Joe