Authentic Jackie Robinson sig? Plus odd tickets

[perezfan]

Perfect authentic Jackie sig.... wonderful pickup.... congrats!

[mr2686]

Rob,
The Robinson looks real good to me too. Matches up with the one I have real well (got mine from Ron Gordon back in the late 80's).
As for the tickets, well no they are not from Sept 21st 1934. Assuming that only one ticket was issued on double headers, I calculate that this was from 7/14/34...also against the Cardinals but no no-hitter thrown.

[canjond]

Did ticket numbers run in reverse? i.e., ticket #32 meant the 32nd game LEFT instead of 32nd game PLAYED?

[jbsports33]

I just looked at a real Jackie Robinson signature on a baseball this week, you have a very nice example

Jimmy

[cubsguy1969]

Thanks for the input, guys. I had a solid feeling that it might be real, just from the other stuff in the apartment. Everything looked "right." I suspect he got many of the signatures himself, and probably many through the mail. A real old-school collector.

Interesting idea on the reverse order of the games, Jon. But I still don't think the math works. Someone either made a mistake somewhere along the way, or maybe a shady type pulled a fast one on this collector. Who knows?

[mr2686]

I'd say there was a mistake somewhere along the way. Who knows, maybe the guy actually went to this game AND the later games where Dean pitched the no hitter...and maybe he wrote the note of the back of the wrong stubbs. Or maybe he bought them second hand and didn't know any better. It's impossible to know without the original collector being available. This is why it's important for all of us collectors to try and document our collections. Where we got them and any history behind them if available. You got a great Robinson auto so you should be pretty darn jazzed about that and some ticket stubbs from the Cards/Dodgers during a championship year from one of the most famous Cardinal teams of all time. Sounds like a pretty good haul to me.

[steve B]

Counting home games herehttp://www.baseball-reference.com/te...e-scores.shtml
I come up with July 15, which was a Dizzy dean shutout during a sunday doubleheader. So a mistake over which double header it was seems likely.

But there's the odd day off on Monday the 16th, followed by The cards again on the 17th and 18th.

Any chance at all that there was a rainout earlier in the season pushing game 32 to the 16th which got rained out and replayed on the 21st? It seems unlikely considering the way ties and rainouts were handled at the time, but might be worth a bit of checking into.

Really neat items either way.

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by mr2686

I'd say there was a mistake somewhere along the way. Who knows, maybe the guy actually went to this game AND the later games where Dean pitched the no hitter...and maybe he wrote the note of the back of the wrong stubbs. Or maybe he bought them second hand and didn't know any better. It's impossible to know without the original collector being available. This is why it's important for all of us collectors to try and document our collections. Where we got them and any history behind them if available. You got a great Robinson auto so you should be pretty darn jazzed about that and some ticket stubbs from the Cards/Dodgers during a championship year from one of the most famous Cardinal teams of all time. Sounds like a pretty good haul to me.

I have a tendency to go along with Mike's theory about the patron being confused when writing the inscription on the back of the tickets. No-hitter tickets are what I collect. The math definately won't work for these tickets to be from this game, but the inscription certainly appears to be with old ink. Great job on picking up the Jackie Robinson signed index card!