September Pickups Thread

[CarltonHendricks]

Originally Posted by bigfish

Not sure what year they are but they are old....

Bigfish, Let's hear the details how you "picked up" a pillbox cap...can you give the who, what, where, on that? Anything you can divuldge would be interesting....you don't see them often.....I got one about 20 years ago from Josh Evans at a National...I think it was in 1989....I remember asking him where he got it...said got it from a guy in Boston, and that he'd been trying to get it a long time.

[bigfish]

I bought both items at two different locations in New England. The mask was bought in a sports lot at a local auction and the hat in an antique mall. Wish I had the bat in your picture. I know baseball cards very well but the equipment is not my bag. Thought I would post for others to see.

Toby

[milkit1]

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[vintagesportflips]

Beautful Pickups guys, I especially love the decal bat and Naps pennant. I have picked up a bunch of stuff lately but haven't photographed any of it yet. But one I thing I did pickup and scan is this small baseball broadside for a baseball game played in Michigan. I believe it is for either a town team or high school team game, but the interesting part for me is the sort of "undercard" of the game between the South Side Independents and Colored Giants. I believe this could be a sort of barntsorming game. I know an african american team called the Texas Colored Giants toured all over the country and Canada during the early 1930s. I know that July 25 was a Sunday in 1909, 1920, and 1937, so I am not sure what exact year this broadside dates too. I hope to narrow this one down with some further research.


The slight rippling in the photo is from a plastic sleeve that holds the broadside.