Your most prized baseball related possession? This is mine...

[jpop43]

Kinda on the unconventional side, and not at all part of the "collection" so to speak, but here is an item that I hold pretty dear considering where it came from, where I went to get it, and as a memory of those who were with me...319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division...Iraq 2003.

[sayhey24]

Jonathan --

Love the ball and the photo -- thank you very much for your service!

Greg

[GrayGhost]

Awesome indeed Jonathan.

[sicollector1954]

Mine is a 1938-39 MEARS Grade 9 Jimmie Foxx gamer. It will probably be the next to the last item I ever sell. The last would have to be a 1947 negative which I found on the internet of a local team playing baseball and an up close of one of the players. It was my father.

[Forever Young]

Originally Posted by sicollector1954

Mine is a 1938-39 MEARS Grade 9 Jimmie Foxx gamer. It will probably be the next to the last item I ever sell. The last would have to be a 1947 negative which I found on the internet of a local team playing baseball and an up close of one of the players. It was my father.

Are you going to post your father's pic up here?

[GKreindler]

Agreed!!! I would LOVE to see that negative!

[sicollector1954]

Sure. Didn't think anyone would want to see it but here goes. This is the 8X10 photo once developed and last year before he passed away--he signed it for my daughter as a keepsake. I guess he was actually a pretty good player from what people have said. The leagues around here where I live formed an All-Star team once which he was a member and they once played the King and His Court in a game. The story goes he got a hit and reached first with a single. However, on the very next pitch--pitching from near second base--the "King" went behind the back to first instead of pitching to home and picked him off! Thanks.