February Pick-Ups

[sports-rings]

Hope I am not being redundant since I posted this under it's own subject a few weeks back.

Here is a 209 Yankee Stadium Model I acquired from Model-Builder Steve Wolf.

To see more pictures and read the story behind this amazing model, please see this story:




http://sportscollectingnews.com/excl15.htm

[ruth-gehrig]

Early Base Ball broadside that I need to get framed along with the other one I picked up earlier this month. Yesterday at a local antique mall my girlfriend spotted the oldest dumbbells I've ever seen. I absolutely love them. Each is 5lbs. Last is a Jayhawk Creamery bottle from Lawrence Kansas. It will be on ebay soon unless a board member is interested.

[CarltonHendricks]

8 1/8" wide x 7" tall with lid open x 5 1/2" deep


In lineup with it's big brother





Got this in the mail today....Boy do these cigar boxes get dry and fragil, which I hate!...The lid hinge attached by paper is very intact, not split or anything....but sure makes me nervous, I'm careful with it nevertheless!...Been finding so much lately was reluctant to get it....But based on not many people would know the story on it...and my thing for antique sports sculpture...Interesting piece...it sort of has the kiss of Canada...but then it doesn't...not always, but I usually pass on Canadian stuff....Here's the story...



The image of the football scrimmage is a statue titled "The Onslaught" sculpted by R. Tait McKenzie who as I recall I was a professor at U. Penn. c1900...McKenzie spent five years working on it...The original work is 36" wide, 15" tall....and probably the greatest football sculpture on the planet...I don't know how many were cast but very few I'm sure would be accurate...I would be surprised if six were done...You can read more about McKenzie in my Yale Trophy Room feature I did last May...I can't recall ever seeing sports sculpture featured in product advertising...So if for nothing else that put it over the gotta have it goal line!

Below is another Feb. P/U...a bronze basketball fob...I think this is the first fob I've ever bought, as I generally like bigger stuff....but this one had me!!..

[Scott Garner]

I just picked up a very unusual book entitled "Twelve Perfect Innings- A Pretty Good Game" by Weldon Myers. It was published in 1961 and features an 85 page inning by inning account written in poetry of Harvey Haddix's near perfect game in 1959.

I collect books on no-hitters and perfect games, but I have never come across this one before. It really is a beautifully written poem by a former English teacher and Creative Writing professor at Converse College. He also was a college baseball player and huge baseball fan.

I assume that this book is rare, but can any of the book experts out there chime in on what they know about it?

Thanks!

PS- I also threw in a picture of my ticket to the greatest pitched game ever in the history of baseball.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by sports-rings

Hope I am not being redundant since I posted this under it's own subject a few weeks back.

Here is a 209 Yankee Stadium Model I acquired from Model-Builder Steve Wolf.

To see more pictures and read the story behind this amazing model, please see this story:




http://sportscollectingnews.com/excl15.htm

Michael, That's incredible! I had to make a pot of coffee for the read.

[vintagesportflips]

Just picked up this 1967 Phila Eagles Hand Puppet made by the Gund company. In my 12 or so years of Eagles collecting, this is the first of these I've encountered. Admittedly, its a pretty unattractive piece, but it doesn't have to be pretty for me to collect it, just has to be Eagles related.

[Scott Garner]

I just picked up a nice 1" Walter Johnson for Congress pinback off of eBay.
The WaJo photo image is one that that I saved from a recent auction. I don't own this one...

[jester]

Picked this up. Anyone know the year of this pennant?

[CarltonHendricks]

Originally Posted by jester

Picked this up. Anyone know the year of this pennant?

Don't know definitely but looks like 1936....any baseball pennant with art deco style graphics is a winner, you don't see a lot of them...congrats nice P/U

http://www.sportsantiques.com/09natstorypg22.htm
It's not an A's piece but the art deco and baseball reminds me of this 1938 booklet at the 09' National in Michael McKee's booth....What was I thinking not to buy this for $75.00....covering the National for a story is overload mind numbing and this proves it LOL...

[matty39]

Jeff, I believe your pennant is a 1936-38 BF3 premium. You will find them listed in the Standard Catalog as type 12 BF3S.

[jester]

Originally Posted by jester

Picked this up. Anyone know the year of this pennant?

It is a 27" pennant. I didn't know they made this size BF3s.

[CarltonHendricks]

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

I just picked up a nice 1" Walter Johnson for Congress pinback off of eBay.
The WaJo photo image is one that that I saved from a recent auction. I don't own this one...

http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/bio/_/...walter-johnson
Post-playing career
His wife Hazel died on August 1, 1930. Her death left a gaping hole in Johnson's life which he attempted to fill.

In 1929, Johnson returned to the Senators as manager. In his first season he went 71-81, but, in his next three years, his teams averaged 93 wins. The squad never won a pennant under Johnson, though.

In 1933, he was hired by the Cleveland Indians, where he went 179-168 in three seasons. His kind demeanor and inability to understand how his pitchers couldn't work themselves out of jams helped lead to his undoing as a manger.

He served as a Senators broadcaster in 1939.

After his managing career ended, Johnson won a seat as Montgomery County Commissioner in Maryland. In 1940, he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Congress.
On December 10, 1946, Johnson died from a brain tumor at the age of 59.

[Scott Garner]

[QUOTE=CarltonHendricks;971114]http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/bio/_/...walter-johnson
[I]Post-playing career
His wife Hazel died on August 1, 1930. Her death left a gaping hole in Johnson's life which he attempted to fill.

In 1929, Johnson returned to the Senators as manager. In his first season he went 71-81, but, in his next three years, his teams averaged 93 wins. The squad never won a pennant under Johnson, though.

In 1933, he was hired by the Cleveland Indians, where he went 179-168 in three seasons. His kind demeanor and inability to understand how his pitchers couldn't work themselves out of jams helped lead to his undoing as a manger.

He served as a Senators broadcaster in 1939.

After his managing career ended, Johnson won a seat as Montgomery County Commissioner in Maryland. In 1940, he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Congress.



Thanks for supplying the Walter Johnson post career bio, Carlton!

I actually was aware of these facts as I read net54's own Hank Thomas' great biography entitled "Walter Johnson-Baseball's Big Train". For those of you that would love to learn more about Walter Johnson's great career, I would highly recommend that you read Hank's book. It's spectacular!!