May Pick-Ups

[toyman55]

Great pickup Mike, I lamented bidding on it since I had gone over my spending budget this month. Now I wish I had bought it, I searched High and Low on the internet for this and I believe you may have a very rare game. congratulations and by the way you can see most of my collection on the forum in the mancave room.

Shale

[stone193]

Originally Posted by toyman55

Great pickup Mike, I lamented bidding on it since I had gone over my spending budget this month. Now I wish I had bought it, I searched High and Low on the internet for this and I believe you may have a very rare game. congratulations and by the way you can see most of my collection on the forum in the mancave room.

Shale

Thanx Shale. I spent quite a bit of time going over the pics in your mancave.

It's incredible!

Board games are one of my newer areas of collecting and B,K,W are really good guys and what they've 'forgotten' - I have to learn.

At this point in my 30 years of collecting - I would say board games rank #1 next to my search for all the variations to Take Me Out to the Ball Game.
Cards a distant 2nd/3rd place.

I like the way you've displayed your games - I'm planning to do something like that but don't have the dough right now. Will post pics when I get the job done tho.

Thanx again.

[71buc]

I normally tend to limit my purchases of photos to those that depict members of the Hall of Fame. I came across this image and was intrigued as it seems difficult to find Type 1 photos of Negro League players. I researched this player (Henry Kimbro) and after reading the description of him at http://www.negroleaguebaseball.com which is pasted below I had to buy it.

He was a little unruly. He didn't always get along with umpires. Some would even have described him as Negro baseball's "bad boy". But, whatever else can be said about "Jumbo" Kimbro, he was one hell of a ballplayer! With a Kirby Puckett type build, the stocky, powerful Kimbro was a threat on the base path, a superlative fielder, and consistently among the leaders in most all hitting categories during the '40s. Beginning his career in 1937 with the Washington Elite Giants, Kimbro remained with Tom Wilson's aggregation for virtually of his career, compiling a lifetime .315 batting average and representing the Baltimore Elite Giants five times in the East-West All-Star Game. Teaming with Bill Wright and Roy Campanella, Kimbro rounded out one of the most potent offenses in Negro ball. Twice in his career Kimbro exceeded the .350 hitting mark (1946 and 1947), and in 1947 won the league batting title while turning in a .346 performance for the Havana club while competing against major league stars in the Cuban Winter League. Kimbro, described by Ted Radcliffe as "the wildest man I ever saw in baseball and, absolutely, the hardest to manage, himself managed the Baltimore Elite Giants briefly during the 1950s before retiring in his hometown of Nashville. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s Kimbro owned and operated a service station and taxicab service in West Nashville and made several appearances at Negro League reunions around the country.

[Big Six]

Not sure if this was a "good" buy or not, but dropped $18 on the photo below...great image but it's tagged on the back as "reproduced by Geo. Burke"...assume this would be considered a Type II...hope one day to add a Type I image of Hal to my collection...thoughts?



This would be the kind of image I'd want GK to paint for me if I ever had the money...

[doug.goodman]

That is a well spent $18

[thecatspajamas]

FWIW, it would be either a Type 2 or a Type 4, depending on whether it was printed from the original negative (Type 2) or a duplicate negative (Type 4). Based on the slight loss of clarity, I would lean toward it being a Type 4 which Burke re-shot from an existing print as opposed to him obtaining the original negative to produce the print. Either way, the photo looks to have been shot in 1909, so by the time Burke was producing photos of ballplayers, at least 20 years had passed.

None of that is meant to take away from a nice pick-up which, I agree, was well worth the $18. Congratulations!

[Big Six]

Thanks Doug & Lance...considering the otherwise crappy day I'm having, your feedback is GREATLY appreciated. FWIW, I scanned the photo in the top loader it was sent to me...the condition of the top loader is not the best and the photo is a bit nicer than it is showing in the scan. Chase fascinates me and I was pretty surprised I got the photo for that little...I was willing to go to $75...at what point would this have gone from "nice pickup" to "you could have bought a few of these for what you paid?" Thanks again...the learning continues...Matt