Possibly the oldest known baseball tickets discovered

[Leon]

[GDoggy]

The 1895 Cleveland Spiders include HOF'ers: Jesse Burkett, Bobby Wallace and a 28 year-old Cy Young.

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by GDoggy

The 1895 Cleveland Spiders include HOF'ers: Jesse Burkett, Bobby Wallace and a 28 year-old Cy Young.

Good one, Jeff! Very cool

[jcmtiger]

Here’s mine.

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by jcmtiger

Here’s mine.

Joe,
Great Wolverine's ticket! I haven't seen one of those before.

[GDoggy]

Not a 19th century ticket, but 115 years old
Looks to be this game played at Bennett Park: https://www.baseball-reference.com/b...90607310.shtml
What is crazy is none of the A's HoF players from that year played (Chief Bender, Eddie Collins (who would debut later that year), Eddie Plank, Rube Waddell ), nor did second year Detroit player Ty Cobb (who according to the Aug 11, 1906 Sporting Life was out on leave due to illness and an operation at a local hosptal).
Only HoF player to play in the game was Sam Crawford who went 0 for 4, but had a RBI

[GDoggy]

Couple Old School Cincinnati Reds tickets
1897 included HoFers: Jake Beckley, Bid McPhee, Buck Ewing (Buck only played in one game in 1897, his final year)
1905 included HoFers: Joe Kelley, Miller Huggins
Always looking for a good trade. See my collection: https://www.gladishsolutions.com/ticketstubs/

[1880nonsports]

This is the second of two I have owned. First went to Chad (RIP). Not qute a ticket and not quite a trade card?

[SteveS]

Somebody mentioned Capitoline earlier, and here's my Capitoline ticket from the 1866-'67 season. I know it was used as a baseball field, and then a skating rink in the winter. I don't know whether this ticket was for baseball, skating, or both as part of a season ticket. But it has a place for a Box #, which may indicate a seating section.

[Shoeless Moe]

Originally Posted by SteveS

Somebody mentioned Capitoline earlier, and here's my Capitoline ticket from the 1866-'67 season. I know it was used as a baseball field, and then a skating rink in the winter. I don't know whether this ticket was for baseball, skating, or both as part of a season ticket. But it has a place for a Box #, which may indicate a seating section.

If it's from 1866-1867 season that indicates it's a winter season, like hockey or basketball. I think it's safe to assume this was for the skating season.

[mgerton]

So here is the TLR version

I get back into collecting. My dad tells me he has some "old baseball card, well, kind of" stashed in his safe. His mom got them from her Great Aunts estate and gave them to him at some point. These have been in my family since originally purchased in 1869, and the Curtis on the front of the tickets is, by my estimate without digging out my dad's family tree research, is atleast a 5x Great relative of mine. They have been in a jewely box wrapped in newspaper since then. All he could tell me is that one of them was for a precursor to an MLB team. So i started digging.

Not only are the Putnam and Union (aka Troy Haymakers) club tickets from 1869 both potentially each the oldest existing ticket, but the Haymakers were one of the 12 teams to play for the first ever pennant in 1869, making this arguably a ticket to the first ever season of "pro sports", and to the last season in which they played in the NABBP before founding the NAPBBP.

An excerpt from the textbook "Ticket Operations and Sales Management in Sports," pub. 2013, shows an image of, and lists a single game ticket to the Red Stockings on July 1st, 1869, now in the possession of Cooperstown as the oldest known baseball GAME ticket.

https://fitpublishing.com/sites/defa...r_1excerpt.pdf

Given the information in the article originally referenced, and that these are season tickets, they were likely (and also likely unprovably) printed at some point in the year BEFORE the ticket to the Red Stockings game mentioned above, I would like to posture that unless any other new, old, definitavely baseball GAME and not ball / dance / fundraiser / etc. tickets have emerged, that I have now located the new, oldest known tickets.

[Shoeless Moe]

Those are VERY cool!

[Scott Garner]

I agree, very cool!
Thanks for sharing this with us.

[guy3050]

Cool thread, might be the Earliest known Expos ticket and program , April 5th 1969 Pre-inaugural season Spring Training Program and Ticket Stub, Cleveland Indians Vs Montreal Expos in Omaha Nebraska, also found this article about the game