Hey, pennant guys

[MK]

Originally Posted by perezfan

YES! There WAS a very substantial pennant thread before you came along. Perhaps someone can find it (who's better than me at the search function). I think of it periodically and would actually love to see it.
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https://www.net54baseball.com/showth...hlight=Pennant

[Fballguy]

Whoa Mark...Top 3 in 2007? Imagine where you rank now?!

Very first post too.

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Posted By: Mark Steinberg
Mike: I just joined tonight, and this is my first post.

I think I might have the best vintage baseball pennant collection in the world... top 3 anyway. The collection spans from turn of the century to the late '60s. It stops at the point manufacturers felt the need to cheapen / mass-produce the artwork, make them stiff instead of soft, and include the MLB Logo. Until I can figure out how to display them on the floors or ceiling however, I have had to slow it down a bit. I had hoped to create some type of memorabilia museum someday, but am doubtful that enough people would actually appreciate.

[ooo-ribay]

That’s gonna be fun to read through those TWO pages!

[ooo-ribay]

I was watching this on ebay...a mailing envelope for the 1955 Post cereal patches. The Phillies patch shows the hat with orbiting baseball. Greg, was this motif used circa 1955 on Phillies pennants? There are a few kind of hard to find Giants pennants with this motif, but I think those ones are mid-1970's.

[thetahat]

Originally Posted by ooo-ribay

I was watching this on ebay...a mailing envelope for the 1955 Post cereal patches. The Phillies patch shows the hat with orbiting baseball. Greg, was this motif used circa 1955 on Phillies pennants? There are a few kind of hard to find Giants pennants with this motif, but I think those ones are mid-1970's.

Rob, yes, there is a Trench which dates to 1955-57 with the “orbiting ball” logo and the “TMC” trademark that dates it.

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by thetahat

Rob, yes, there is a Trench which dates to 1955-57 with the “orbiting ball” logo and the “TMC” trademark that dates it.

Cool. Pic? I had thought these were like 20 years later but I could be wrong. Bocca?

[bocca001]

I think those Giants are 1970s. There are several "similar" pennants for the A's and Mets (circa 1973 or so.. with players names) that seem to be from the same maker. I'm guessing they were inspired by that long used Phillies logo.

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by ooo-ribay

That’s gonna be fun to read through those TWO pages!

That was exhausting!

Mark mentioned doing a coffee table book, 17 years ago. Well...?

[UKCardGuy]

That old thread was a fun read. Mark do you still have that 1939 Baseball Centennial pennant?

[perezfan]

Originally Posted by UKCardGuy

That old thread was a fun read. Mark do you still have that 1939 Baseball Centennial pennant?

Hey Gary...

That Baseball Centennial Pennant was just a joke I played, that I had completely forgotten about. I had a piece of blank blue felt, and placed a Centennial Sleeve Patch and cut-out pictures of a bat and ball on top of the felt.

Totally fake.... There was a bunch of bogus and fake memorabilia on Ebay being passed off as real back then. So I thought it was pretty funny at the time to parody it. If you go back and read it, you'll see that it was never intended to deceive.

Hope all is well,
Mark

[Fballguy]

Ebay's been absolutely dead lately...as has just about every other site. But then when you least expect it...the grind pays off. These have been sitting in a chest in an attic in Eastern PA for at least the last half of their lives. And now they've been freed.

[perezfan]

Originally Posted by ooo-ribay

That was exhausting!

Mark mentioned doing a coffee table book, 17 years ago. Well...?

Well, I wouldn't place a wager on that one these days (any more than I'd bet on the Reds to win the World Series).

[perezfan]

[QUOTE=Fballguy;2470571]Whoa Mark...Top 3 in 2007? Imagine where you rank now?!

Well I have added some nice ones for sure, but also let go of many that were irreplaceable (including that oversized Red Sox that I led off with )

Thank goodness there's no "registry" for pennants, but if there was, I have a feeling that there's a father and son duo from Wisconsin and a super collector from NJ who have surpassed me. Not to mention a dealer/collector from Texas with the jaw-dropping Red Sox collection and a few other guys who prefer to remain anonymous!

[perezfan]

Originally Posted by MK

https://www.net54baseball.com/showth...hlight=Pennant

Many thanks to Mike K. for finding that! What a fun look back at my first-ever net54 posts.... funny thing is that I'm not much better at posting pics now than I was back then. Hard to believe that was almost exactly 17 years ago!