August 2011 pickup thread

[Shoeless Moe]

This is the 2nd one of these I've now found, sold the 1st one and kind of regretted it, but lucky to now have found a 2nd one in the past 5 years.

Great condition too, better then my previous one, so happy about that. (12x18" & has all 8 men out)

[Brian Van Horn]

The Bob Prince photo and the Kittaning football and basketball pictures are from an antique fair. The Clemente foldout is from a flea market:

[HexsHeroes]

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2011 has now officially (for me) become a successful collecting year, on account of finally acquiring a item on my want list.

This afternoon I had in hand an item signed by turn-of-the-century ballplayer John Joseph (Jack) Warner. The item was purchased earlier this month from autograph dealer Jim Stinson but wasn't shipped for a couple of weeks, due to an overseas trip by Jim. It was difficult to patiently wait for the arrival of this item.

This "Jack" Warner (not to be confused with the more common John R. "Jack" Warner) played in 1,073 major league games, over 14 seasons, with the Boston Beaneaters (1895), Louisville Colonels (1895–96), New York Giants (1896–1901, 1903–04), Boston Americans (1902), St. Louis Cardinals (1905), Detroit Tigers (1905–06), and Washington Senators (1906–08). I am only familiar with his image appearing on two vintage cardboard issues (E107 Breisch-Williams, W600 Sporting Life) but perhaps there were more. Regardless, today, I'm all smiles.

[Mark]

Brian
Thanks for posting the Bob Prince photo. That's a beauty.
Mark

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by HexsHeroes

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2011 has now officially (for me) become a successful collecting year, on account of finally acquiring a item on my want list.

This afternoon I had in hand an item signed by turn-of-the-century ballplayer John Joseph (Jack) Warner. The item was purchased earlier this month from autograph dealer Jim Stinson but wasn't shipped for a couple of weeks, due to an overseas trip by Jim. It was difficult to patiently wait for the arrival of this item.

This "Jack" Warner (not to be confused with the more common John R. "Jack" Warner) played in 1,073 major league games, over 14 seasons, with the Boston Beaneaters (1895), Louisville Colonels (1895–96), New York Giants (1896–1901, 1903–04), Boston Americans (1902), St. Louis Cardinals (1905), Detroit Tigers (1905–06), and Washington Senators (1906–08). I am only familiar with his image appearing on two vintage cardboard issues (E107 Breisch-Williams, W600 Sporting Life) but perhaps there were more. Regardless, today, I'm all smiles.

Vincent,

Congrats on the Jack Warner. That's a toughee!

[prewarsports]

I have picked up a TON of new stuff, but I discovered this in a junk pile at the National. Previously unknown photo of the 1919 World Series, Warm Ups before Game 1! Miutes before the "Fix was on". Lots of detail under magnification including pre-game festivities like a Reds player and a White Sox player getting their picture taken together, Kid Gleason chatting it up along the third base line etc.

Rhys

CLOSE UPS IN NEXT POST

[prewarsports]

Close Ups.

[GKreindler]

Rhys,

That shot is completely bad@$$. What a great narrative it shows, even without the back-story of the '19 Series fiasco. It was probably taken some minutes before this happened (not mine, btw), too:



It makes me really wonder what the real atmosphere was like before that first game, both on the field and in the stands...one can only wonder what was going through the players' minds.

You really found that one in a junk pile?

Graig