Cleveland World Series press pins

[benchod]

Wow Rob' congrats
Dare we say mission accomplished?
Enjoyed your write up about the pins.
Do you have a scan of the 1920 celluloid pin?

[Rob D.]

Originally Posted by benchod

Wow Rob' congrats
Dare we say mission accomplished?
Enjoyed your write up about the pins.
Do you have a scan of the 1920 celluloid pin?

Craig,

Here's a scan of an example MastroNet sold in 2004:

[wrapperguy]

Rob,
I collect press pins also and that is a terrific group. I, too, needed the 1920 Cleveland but the two lots in which those pins resided went too high. Now I know why. Congrats!

[JLange]

Rob, that's a great group of press pins! Nice to see them all in one location!

[benchod]

Thanks for posting the scan,
That celluloid pin is nice

[HRBAKER]

Rob,
Top drawer indeed!
Very nice and thanks for the bonus commentary as well.

Jeff

[Rho68]

Does anybody have his contact info ? I have purchased several pins from him as well, but lost all of my email contacts and can't find him on Ebay. Any help would be appreciated !

[pbspelly]

I asked this in an earlier thread but never got a response:

Was it common for players to get press pins? I have an All-Star Game Press pin from the '30s or '40s that was in possession of my grandfather, Billy Sullivan, Jr., who was a player at the time (but never an All-Star). I always wondered why he had it. Does it mean that he might have been acting in some journalistic capacity at the All-Star game, or were these pins just given out to players that asked for them or invited as a guest?

[Thedodgerbum]

Hi Rob,

I just joined this site after seeing your Fantastic Indians press pin collection! It is great! I have the almost complete Dodger press pin collection that comes close to what you have put together. I am shy a phantom prototype pin that was sold years back and will probably never find. From your photos I can quickly tell that you have picked up pins from Bob Grabowski, as I have only seen a couple of the prototypes that he had picked up years ago from the son of the Balfour designer who actually made the pins named Robert Shorrick. Bob G. is a fantastic and knowledgable collector! I probably bid against you at one time for some of those pins (sorry). I have a complete collection of World Series press pins from 1930 on, minus 3 elusive pins, plus a handful of the pre-1930 hard to find pins. I am very new to setting up a web site, but started to set up my site and have some of my Dodger press pins shown and you may enjoy looking. Only I have not had time to finish the site and still can't get my emails through the site as I need to contact the company I went through for tech help, but you can see the press pins at TheDodgerBum.com. Click on the press pin tab! Anyways, thanks for posting such a great comprehensive collection here. It made my day to look at what you have put together knowing how hard phantoms and prototypes are to even find, let alone put together in one collection! Congrats! By the way, I think I bid against you for that elusive 1920 pin on a private auction site. I remember trying to buy it to match it with my two 1920 Dodger Press Pins. I have one 1920 with the clasp, and one with the screw on backing. My Dodger pins include the 1916 (both screw on and clasp backing), 1920 (both backs), 1941 (both backs), the only 1941 prototype known (colors reversed), the 1946 phantom, 1947, 1949 (both backs), the only 1950 grey phantom prototype, the only two 1950 blue phantoms I have ever seen, the 1951 phantom, the 1952 (all 3 back styles), all 3 versions of the 1953 pins, the 1955 (both clasp and screw post), and then all of the pins after moving to LA (1959, 63, 65, 66, 74, 77, 81, 88) plus the modern phantoms, as well as all three All Star games hosted by the Dodgers (1949, 1959, 1980). Obviously I am a little fanatical about press pins! Sorry for the long post, but love what you have done with your collection! Can be reached at email huppkeith@yahoo.com should you like to talk more about the pins. I retire soon after years of being a workaholic so looking forward to being more involved in the hobby (addiction). Take care! Keith

[perezfan]

Great stuff, Rob.... beautiful grouping and great accomplishment.

It's interesting to note that only the very first and last Pins fail to feature Chief Wahoo. Otherwise, his mug makes it onto each and every Pin.

Also (with the understanding that few besides me would care) I find it interesting that the other version of Cheif Wahoo (pictured below) was never used. I thought that this even less politically correct version was thier primary Mascot from the mid 1940s to early '50s. Side by side comparison below...

[Rob D.]

Hi Keith,

Thanks for resurrecting this thread and for the kind words. I enjoyed looking at your site.

You're 100 percent correct that I got some of the phantoms from Bob. I vividly remember about 6-7 years ago the Saturday morning I got up and saw that they had just been listed on eBay. I didn't know what to think because I'd never seen them before. He only had one of the '54s listed, and after I spoke with him on the phone, he mentioned the other one. I was pretty happy he sold me all the Indians he had. Just a case of fortunate timing on my part.

I still haven't added a celluloid 1920 Cleveland World Series press pin to my collection (haven't even seen one come up for auction). This past spring I was lucky to find sort of a "placeholder," which is shown below. Though it's not a press pin, it is celluloid, it's from Cleveland and from 1920. Three out of four isn't bad, I suppose.

Again, thanks for the nice comments.

Rob