August 2011 pickup thread

[Scott Garner]

[QUOTE=Hankphenom;919554]Bert Sugar, among others, has game 7 of the 1924 World Series as the greatest single baseball game ever played. My book has an entire chapter devoted to it, of course. And speaking of it and the National, I picked up a gorgeous original panorama of both teams and thousands of spectators taken just before the game. There's 19 or 20 Hall of Famers, plus President Coolidge, in this spectacular photo, which is in the original frame with a 1920s D.C. frame shop sticker on the back. Also my grandfather, grandmother, great-grandmother, and a couple of great-uncles, so it's something of a family picture for me. Here it is sitting on the floor of Tony Arnold's booth waiting for me to come along and spot it. Tony told me it was on the floor because he hadn't realized it didn't have a wire on the back. You can see the space he had made for it at the top of his backdrop. For the price he was asking, there's no way it would have still been there by the time I made it by his booth had it been properly displayed. There's nothing like the National!

Awesome pickup there Hank! I would love to see a better closeup of it if you ever get the time to take a picture of it.

BTW, if the photo of Geo Mogridge is from the World Series, it definately is from game 7. Mogridge got his World Series win in game 4 at New York. As you know, game 7 is the only other World Series game that he pitched in. I will have to reread your chapter on the 1924 WS soon. I know that I've told you this before, but I really love your book on your grandfather.

[Hankphenom]

Thanks for the kind words, Scott, always appreciated!