October 2011 Pick-Up Thread

[Scott Garner]

October is a tough month to post new pickups!

After Jimmy dropped that "nuclear bomb of all pickups" to kick off October (early Babe Ruth pitching photo and 1915 Red Sox hurlers), I'm happy to join the party in a small way.

As a matching bookend to Jimmy's photo, I picked up a NMT ticket stub to the Babe's LAST ML pitching appearance and win on October 1, 1933. In Ruthian fashion, the Babe managed to show a crowd of 25,000 NY fans why he was, well, Babe Ruth...

In the last game of the 1933, and in the twilight of Ruth's career, Babe asked to pitch against the Yanks' arch rival Boston Red Sox. Ruth did the NY team proud, pitching a complete game and garnering a win for his effort. Additionally, Ruth hit his 34th and final homer of his 1933 campaign (career HR # 686).

As stated earlier, the ticket stub is in great shape. The patron that attended the game scribbled notes on the back of the ticket on who attended the game and when it occured.

Pretty cool! I'm including a scan of my stub and another photo of a Hunt's auction lot that sold last year with a lesser quality example of the same ticket for background info surrounding this game.
Enjoy!

[mr2686]

I am always amazed at the stuff that both Scott and Jimmy find and purchase. It has left me with only one conclusion...they both invented the internet and have a downloaded file that comes to them a few days before the rest of us.
Great pickups guys...both the Ruth pitching photo and his last pitched game ticket are top notch!!

[thekingofclout]

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

October is a tough month to post new pickups!

After Jimmy dropped that "nuclear bomb of all pickups" to kick off October (early Babe Ruth pitching photo and 1915 Red Sox hurlers), I'm happy to join the party in a small way.

As a matching bookend to Jimmy's photo, I picked up a NMT ticket stub to the Babe's LAST ML pitching appearance and win on October 1, 1933. In Ruthian fashion, the Babe managed to show a crowd of 25,000 NY fans why he was, well, Babe Ruth...

In the last game of the 1933, and in the twilight of Ruth's career, Babe asked to pitch against the Yanks' arch rival Boston Red Sox. Ruth did the NY team proud, pitching a complete game and garnering a win for his effort. Additionally, Ruth hit his 34th and final homer of his 1933 campaign (career HR # 686).

As stated earlier, the ticket stub is in great shape. The patron that attended the game scribbled notes on the back of the ticket on who attended the game and when it occured.

Pretty cool! I'm including a scan of my stub and another photo of a Hunt's auction lot that sold last year with a lesser quality example of the same ticket for background info surrounding this game.
Enjoy!

What a great stub Scott! When I first read your post, I thought that I had a matching photo from that game in my collection. But once I got to it, I had a little let down as my photo was from 1930 when Babe pitched the last game of the year against the Sox in Boston. Ah.. what a pair that would have been!

Here's the story from the New York Times... http://tinyurl.com/5gv9vq

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by thekingofclout

What a great stub Scott! When I first read your post, I thought that I had a matching photo from that game in my collection. But once I got to it, I had a little let down as my photo was from 1930 when Babe pitched the last game of the year against the Sox in Boston. Ah.. what a pair that would have been!

Here's the story from the New York Times... http://tinyurl.com/5gv9vq

Thanks Jimmy and Mike!
Wow Jimmy, that's another great photo of Ruth pitching! I appreciate the link to the story about Ruth pitching late in his career with the Yanks.

[CarltonHendricks]

Addenda: 10/10/11 7:47PM
http://www.sportsantiques.com/index.htm
I meant to also note I added a lot of my recent pickups onto my home page, link above. Some I've previously posted here on Net54.

I went to the Sacramento Antiques Fair yesterday and nada....not a thing...but Saturday I picked up the 14" x 11" Handsome Dan print below off eBay from Scott Gaynor...Handsome Dan was/is the Yale bulldog mascot..I already have two of the tins so was just after the print....You can see photos of "Thee" real c1890 Handsome Dan still standing tall in person. It's on the last page of my Brimfield trip story in which I visited Yale and photographed their trophies...scroll 1/2 way down the page in the link below.
http://www.sportsantiques.com/pg16brimstory.htm

14" x 11"


Yesterday a very cool 18" x 9 5/8" felt banner featuring HD sold on eBay for $140.00, see below. I had this once very very early on in my collecting but sold it...one of the coolest banners...It's fairly rare, you don't see them often...but the print I got above is way more rare....first one I've ever seen.

18" x 9 5/8"

[Runscott]

I won these from Jon on ebay. Both have mini cut-out pictures attached to them - one is a real silver gel, the other a cheap litho.

[Runscott]

Also won this on ebay. Bought it because of the description - I've never heard of such a camera, and looking forward to seeing the back of this picture:

Ebay description:
This is a nice early "Pocket Kodak". When it was introduced in August of 1897 it was one of the first really pocketable cameras with a acceptable (for snap shooters) picture size. It also was a very successful camera, 200.000 being sold until its end in April 1915. The camera took 12 pictures with a size of 2.25 x 3.25 inch (5,5 x 8 cm) on one daylight loading spool. It cost $ 10.