September Pickups Thread

[John V]

Rob D. or others,
What's a Nap, or what are Naps?

[BrockJacob]

John,
The team was actually named for Napoleon Lajoie.

[BrockJacob]

This is one of those things I've wanted for quite a while but have held off as these are usually found in quite poor condition. This one is far from mint but about as good as I've seen. Given how these were used I figure there probably are not many floating around in really nice shape so I was happy with this one.

[ksfarmboy]

Picked up a couple exhibition programs at Wichita of the Cards vs White Sox and the Red Sox vs the Cubs. Also picked up a football which is kind of baseball related.

[vintagesportflips]

Hello Clint,
I saw your post over on the game used forum as well. Nice Bo Jackson ball. I have a large collection of Eagles game balls - about 18 right now, and a few non Eagles. I have a couple of game balls in identical design as your Bo Jackson ball - one is a Rams game ball and the other is a Vikings ball, so I am assuming that those teams all farmed the painting out to the same company/artist (one of my balls is mark "The Ball Company)

On a related note, I recently picked up three Eagles game balls from a relative of former Eagles owner Leonard Tose. Tose's story is a fairly sad one in that he owned a huge trucking company and the Eagles, only to lose it all due to a massive gambling problem.

Here are my newest Eagles game balls, as well as the other ones I mentioned that look like your ball.

[ksfarmboy]

Keith, thanks for posting those pictures. It does look very similar to the bottom two. I was hoping mine was the real deal. At the card shop I looked for info on the game and one of his cards said he got 91 yards rushing. When I got home and pulled the game up he scored 3 tds and had 221 yards rushing. It was also the game he ran Bosworth over. It got me thinking maybe it's too good to be true. There is a name on the back Omar Valdes. I guess he might be the guy that painted it.

Great footballs by the way and thanks for the help.

[vintagesportflips]

No problem Clint. I definetly think your ball is the real deal. Nice pickup. I bet Raiders fans would be drooling over that ball.

Another recent pickup of mine is this group of circa 1910 college pennants. The sizes vary, mostly in the 30 inch to 45 inch range, but one of them is a mammoth and the largest pennant I have come across.
This pennant has Lincoln on it, and measures 71 inches long without its tassles (just shy of 6 feet!) and about 33 inches wide, and I picture it below next to two other normal sized Lincoln pennants.

Acually a question for Dan Bretta - I have checked every Lincoln school that I can find and none of them had Black and Red school colors, any chance of Lincoln Nebraska connection to these?

About half of the pennants (including the huge one) have circa 1910 Spalding tags on them (according to some Spalding tag guides - date to 1908-1910)