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[mcgwirecom]

Nice story Brandon. I collect tickets and was wondering if anyone has their birthday ticket? Heres mine...

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by mcgwirecom

Nice story Brandon. I collect tickets and was wondering if anyone has their birthday ticket? Heres mine...

Randall,
I had to laugh when I realized that your birthday was yesterday (May 14th). Happy birthday, buddy! My wife Mary's birthday is today, May 15th.
BTW, since I was born in November and can't collect baseball tickets to games (past the baseball season), I have collected tickets to her birthday, May 15th, 1963.

[mcgwirecom]

Thanks Scott, Happy Birthday to your wife!

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

Randall,
I had to laugh when I realized that your birthday was yesterday (May 14th). Happy birthday, buddy! My wife Mary's birthday is today, May 15th.
BTW, since I was born in November and can't collect baseball tickets to games (past the baseball season), I have collected tickets to her birthday, May 15th, 1963.

Here is the full ticket to my wife's birthday. Her beloved Tigers got beat by the hometown ChiSox. Not a great way to come into the world if you're a Tigers fan!!

[mcgwirecom]

Man thats 3 people with a May 15th birthday! Lotta Tauruses!

[earlywynnfan]

Here is another, it's not in the best of shape, but how many can there be with these two? Autographed by Walter Johnson and Lefty Grove, the best righthanded and lefthanded pitchers of all time!

Ken Sulik
earlywynnfan5@hotmail.com

[BrandonG]

Originally Posted by mcgwirecom

Nice story Brandon. I collect tickets and was wondering if anyone has their birthday ticket? Heres mine...

Very cool Randall, I always wondered if anyone else had their birthday ticket as well. Yours was probably harder to find, and I always wondered who would keep a ticket from and A's/Angels game from the 80's lol. I made that box score myself printing it on newspaper paper from target, and getting the box score info from baseball almanac, then a little Aaron Bros. for the matting. Believe it or not the seller of the 82' team ball originally had it posted for $4k! - I laughed and talked him down to $250, probably still a lot for an 82' Angels but I wasn't going to go out and get them 1 by 1.

[novakjr]

Originally Posted by BrandonG

Very cool Randall, I always wondered if anyone else had their birthday ticket as well. Yours was probably harder to find, and I always wondered who would keep a ticket from and A's/Angels game from the 80's lol. I made that box score myself printing it on newspaper paper from target, and getting the box score info from baseball almanac, then a little Aaron Bros. for the matting. Believe it or not the seller of the 82' team ball originally had it posted for $4k! - I laughed and talked him down to $250, probably still a lot for an 82' Angels but I wasn't going to go out and get them 1 by 1.

$250 might be about right, or at least a pretty good price for that ball. There were a few nice names on that roster. Assuming Mike Witt's on it, that signature alone probably carries most of the ball's value. I could be wrong, but I think Witt signed ball's generally sell for over $200.

[ksfarmboy]

Here's mine. It's an 1875 silver trophy ball.

[Big Dave]

Cool stories and (no pun intended) you guys have some nice balls.

[scooter729]

I've shared this one a while ago, but it's worth trucking out again for this thread.

This ball was signed at the 1955 HOF induction. It was obtained by a Red Sox scout, and came to me directly from him about 10-12 years ago now.

[packs]

Here's a Clemente sweetspot from his rookie season.

[olsport]

Here are some of my balls related misc.
Don Larsen model baseballs dozen ball box label, signed by Don. I also have a sealed single ball in box with nice graphics.

1890 Univ. of Penn vs Lehigh Trophy Ball

1920s Wilson Silver Plated Trophy topper ball
This is my Favorite!! 1909 patent date official American League Ball Trophy Topper

[Oldtix]

Originally Posted by mcgwirecom

Nice story Brandon. I collect tickets and was wondering if anyone has their birthday ticket?

I'm halfway there...if anyone can help me along, I would appreciate it! I'm missing home games for the Yankees, Senators, Braves and Cardinals.

And here's an odd fact: seven of the eight matchups that day were double-headers, so 15 games were played on my birthday!

[baseball tourist]

Just picked this lot of 25 balls up and need to do the research, but love the game used look and obvious meaning they once had to the original owner

A few are stamped "Eastern League" and many have game results - including dated pitching results like, "no hitter", "one hitter" etc. Most are dated to 1954 and identify town teams that most prob played in minor leagues below the level of the eastern league at that time.

[Mr. Zipper]

Originally Posted by Oldtix

I'm halfway there...if anyone can help me along, I would appreciate it! I'm missing home games for the Yankees, Senators, Braves and Cardinals.

And here's an odd fact: seven of the eight matchups that day were double-headers, so 15 games were played on my birthday!

That is really great. You've inspired me to look for tickets to my birthday... May 15, 1968.