REA results - 12/8/24

[Keith H. Thompson]

I can report the successful addition of the Spalding Pocket Scorebook to my holdings, that includes scorebooks patented by Harry Wright and George Wright. Remember, in the beginning, a scorecard one bought at the park had an empty box and perhaps only a few brief instructions on how to score. Then Harry, George, Al and others undertook to educate us and make a profit at the same time.

I also won the Opening Day 1896 New York Baseball Team program.

1. because it features the Detroit Wolverines as the opponent, but mostly
2. the cover features a newsboy hawking a copy of "The Journal" I feel strongly that a very similar program might have been used for the Newsboy League that the New York Evening World sponsored. We know that the Newsies played their games at the Old Polo Grounds up at 110th Street when the Giants were out of town.

Does any viewer have any program from such a game?

[CrackaJackKid]

Judging by the results, Cracker Jacks are narrowing the gap to the monster of being the premier pre-war set to collect imo.

[packs]

I don't know. The Monster is something that may be possible to collect on a budget as long as you're willing to compromise on condition. There are plenty of low-grade cards for mostly every card in the set minus the variations.

But Cracker Jack is always going to cost you and the pool of low-grade material is even smaller. Jackson and Cobb and Mathewson are never going to be in reach for people the same way a Cobb Green T206 will be.

[x2drich2000]

On the Rose Johnson, can anyone explain how it is postally used without any addressee or address info? I've seen postcards in the past where only a little info was provided ("Ms. Smith Littlefield" for example), but this one has nothing.

[ajjohnsonsoxfan]

The 14 CJ's did extremely well. I guess we've hit a new floor for a PSA 1 Cobb at $30k. I remember not too long ago when $10k for a 1 was big news. The Matty at $66k was healthy (many would rather have the pin hole vs missing paper). I didn't love the Joe Jackson as the paper loss was in part of his name but image very nice and probably won't see one this inexpensive again for awhile making it super desirable.

I really wanted that low grade super lot of 98 cards to help fill holes in my set. Went for higher than expected at over $600/card. If the winner wants to part with the Killifer let me know!

It had been a little while since I had won anything at auction and forgot how easy it is to get "caught" up in winning. No wonder the auction format is so successful. What's one more bid? Ok just one more.... Damnit this is the last one! :-)

I outlasted and won these...

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by ajjohnsonsoxfan

The 14 CJ's did extremely well. I guess we've hit a new floor for a PSA 1 Cobb at $30k. I remember not too long ago when $10k for a 1 was big news. The Matty at $66k was healthy (many would rather have the pin hole vs missing paper). I didn't love the Joe Jackson as the paper loss was in part of his name but image very nice and probably won't see one this inexpensive again for awhile making it super desirable.

I really wanted that low grade super lot of 98 cards to help fill holes in my set. Went for higher than expected at over $600/card. If the winner wants to part with the Killifer let me know!

It had been a little while since I had won anything at auction and forgot how easy it is to get "caught" up in winning. No wonder the auction format is so successful. What's one more bid? Ok just one more.... Damnit this is the last one! :-)

I outlasted and won these...

Nice haul AJ. I ended up with the Smith, always have loved that image.

[ajjohnsonsoxfan]

Originally Posted by Casey2296

Nice haul AJ. I ended up with the Smith, always have loved that image.

Congrats Phil on the Smith! That was on my short list and had some strong bids in. One of very toughest in the set at only 37 total graded between PSA/SGC

[Donscards]

Originally Posted by ajjohnsonsoxfan

The 14 CJ's did extremely well. I guess we've hit a new floor for a PSA 1 Cobb at $30k. I remember not too long ago when $10k for a 1 was big news. The Matty at $66k was healthy (many would rather have the pin hole vs missing paper). I didn't love the Joe Jackson as the paper loss was in part of his name but image very nice and probably won't see one this inexpensive again for awhile making it super desirable.

I really wanted that low grade super lot of 98 cards to help fill holes in my set. Went for higher than expected at over $600/card. If the winner wants to part with the Killifer let me know!

It had been a little while since I had won anything at auction and forgot how easy it is to get "caught" up in winning. No wonder the auction format is so successful. What's one more bid? Ok just one more.... Damnit this is the last one! :-)

I outlasted and won these...

AJ You beat me on the M. Brown--I was bidding on all the 14-15 Cracker Jack Hall of Famer's--I did win 7 of the lessor Hall of Famers--Missed on the Wagner & Matty--tried for the 2 PSA 8's, but bids kept coming in--Finally went to bed. Don

[ajjohnsonsoxfan]

Originally Posted by Donscards

AJ You beat me on the M. Brown--I was bidding on all the 14-15 Cracker Jack Hall of Famer's--I did win 7 of the lessor Hall of Famers--Missed on the Wagner & Matty--tried for the 2 PSA 8's, but bids kept coming in--Finally went to bed. Don

Hey Don I'd expect nothing less from you when it comes to CJ's! Let's see that eye candy when you get a chance to upload here...

[jthorst75]

Anyone here win the N284 King Kelly? I was very intrigued with the back stamps and was curious if that was the draw to this card and it's final price. For the grade, it seemed about right; but was curious if those stamps fueled the bidding. I was way out on bidding.