If You Collect Scorecards or Programs, Show 'em Here!

[jethrod3]

Originally Posted by yanks4

They seem to multiply?

Yup, and those are the times when I wish I had just stuck to tickets!

[bigfanNY]

Dan Brothers began his Hall of Fame Career in 1879. The earliest scorecard I have with him playing is 1881 when he played with Buffalo. So when I looked at this 1904 NY Giants scorecard in the last REA auction and saw Brothers penciled in I thought it could not be Dan Brothers. I looked it up and Dan Brothers retired from Baseball in 1896. ...But! He came back to pick up a pinch hit at bat during the Tuesday October 4th game for the 1904 NY Giants as they played the St. Louis Cardinals. This was a scorecard from that game! Iron Man McGinnity took the loss finishing the season 35-8. The giants committed 6 errors in the field leading to a 7-3 loss.
And I now own a scorecard from Dan Brothers final at bat.

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by bigfanNY

And I now own a scorecard from Dan Brothers final at bat.

THAT is pretty darned cool!

[WillowGrove]

Originally Posted by bigfanNY

Dan Brothers began his Hall of Fame Career in 1879. The earliest scorecard I have with him playing is 1881 when he played with Buffalo. So when I looked at this 1904 NY Giants scorecard in the last REA auction and saw Brothers penciled in I thought it could not be Dan Brothers. I looked it up and Dan Brothers retired from Baseball in 1896. ...But! He came back to pick up a pinch hit at bat during the Tuesday October 4th game for the 1904 NY Giants as they played the St. Louis Cardinals. This was a scorecard from that game! Iron Man McGinnity took the loss finishing the season 35-8. The giants committed 6 errors in the field leading to a 7-3 loss.
And I now own a scorecard from Dan Brothers final at bat.

That is amazing pick up. Congrats!

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by WillowGrove

That is amazing pick up. Congrats!

Awesome Peter! Great research Congrats!

[bigfanNY]

I won the 1904 Giants program with Dan Brothers final at bat from REA ( Sorry Scott it was me not Peter) Say what you want but when Robert was running the Auctions, I don't think there is any chance in the world that he doesn’t identify the significance of the program in the auction description. If I was the consigner I would be upset. Not that it would have added a significant amount to final price but you never know. All it takes is 2 people who want the same scorecard...

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by bigfanNY

All it takes is 2 people who want the same scorecard...

Wow. The timing of that sentence.

I wasn't going to post about this but, after reading that I have to.


Last week on ebay I bought a Koufax no hitter scored program with a newspaper for $43 shipped.

This morning, I set my alarm way earlier than I like to buy a nothing spectacular about it 1964 Koufax scored program. Bidding was at $20.50 with 4 bidders having made 8 bids including my place setter.

I have 286 Koufax scored games, this was a new one for me.

I always bid last second with a number that is more than I want to pay.

At the 20 second mark I typed 157 into the bid box, realized that I would be annoyed to lose it for $160 so changed my number to 304 with 10 seconds left.

Way too much, that's a stupid number for a random game, if somebody bids 300 I'll be pissed off,

4 seconds to go I hit bid.

Lost it by a full bid increment of $309.

Third highest bid was $20.

All it takes is 2 people who want the same scorecard...

[bigfanNY]

Doug good news the program has been resisted and is now at 1 red cent. Good luck I am sure it will cost much less. If I were you I would reach out to seller..

All the Best
Jonathan

[doug.goodman]

Originally Posted by bigfanNY

Doug good news the program has been resisted and is now at 1 red cent. Good luck I am sure it will cost much less. If I were you I would reach out to seller..

All the Best
Jonathan

I won the program in the second auction, and I received it today.

I would have won it for about $32 all in the first time, this time I won it for $38 all in, after offering the seller $50 shipped for it, so I'm happy with my purchase.

It puts me at having scored programs for just over 70% of the games that Koufax appeared in during the regular season (397) + post season (8) + all star games (4 games actually played in) = 409 total.

I'm now at 288, so "only" 121 to go... all regular season (38 home games, 83 on the road)

If anybody has any game that Koufax appeared in, I might be interested in buying, and I have lots of duplicates to trade.

[bigfanNY]

Dan Brothers began his Hall of Fame Career in 1879. The earliest scorecard I have with him playing is 1881. So when I looked at this 1904 NY Giants scorecard in the last REA auction and saw Brothers penciled in I thought it could not be Dan Brothers. I looked it up and Dan Brothers retired from Baseball in 1896. ...But! He came back to pick up a pinch hit at bat during the Tuesday October 4th game for the 1904 NY Giants as they played the St. Louis Cardinals. This was a scorecard from that game! Iron Man McGinnity took the loss finishing the season 35-8. The giants committed 6 errors in the field leading to a 7-3 loss.