July Pickups

[ruth-gehrig]

I'll get the month started with some cast iron figurals

[Kzoo]

Guys........I picked this 'flat top' up last weekend at a local antique show and finally got around to photographing it. It has a nice Spalding patch on the inside and is in great shape, except for the missing chin strap. This is the earliest football helmet I've ever owned, as it dates c. 1900-1910 according to my research...........Matt

[perezfan]

Two AMAZING pickups to start the thread. Wow, Michael and Matt... you might scare everyone off from posting further here.

Tough acts to follow.... Congrats to both!

[Dewey]

Killer football gear.

[Jim65]

Picked up my dream jersey today, 1962 Mets flannel. Worn by #23 Joe Christopher then recycled to #56, probably in Spring Training in 1963 or 1964.

[39special]

Originally Posted by Jim65

Picked up my dream jersey today, 1962 Mets flannel. Worn by #23 Joe Christopher then recycled to #56, probably in Spring Training in 1963 or 1964.

Great jersey!

[mickey7mantle7]

Originally Posted by Jim65

Picked up my dream jersey today, 1962 Mets flannel. Worn by #23 Joe Christopher then recycled to #56, probably in Spring Training in 1963 or 1964.

Where or what site do you buy from?

[ruth-gehrig]

Well Thanks Mark! July being the month of the National I hope will be pretty sweet for pickups. At least that's what I hope for the attendees.
Matt...I have absolutely no clue about football equipment but that looks like a killer helmet. I assume the style is rather rare??

[ksfarmboy]

Super pickup Jim. Those 62 Mets are near impossible.

[vintagesportscollector]

Originally Posted by Kzoo

Guys........I picked this 'flat top' up last weekend at a local antique show and finally got around to photographing it. It has a nice Spalding patch on the inside and is in great shape, except for the missing chin strap. This is the earliest football helmet I've ever owned, as it dates c. 1900-1910 according to my research...........Matt

Matt, the flat top head harness is one of my favorites, great helmet! Can you post a pic of the Spalding tag?

[antiquefootball]

Originally Posted by Kzoo

Guys........I picked this 'flat top' up last weekend at a local antique show and finally got around to photographing it. It has a nice Spalding patch on the inside and is in great shape, except for the missing chin strap. This is the earliest football helmet I've ever owned, as it dates c. 1900-1910 according to my research...........Matt

Matt,

Your football helmet is a Spalding No. C flattop head harness that dates from between 1909 and 1911. 1909 was the first year that the No. C had vertical leather strips on the rear neck protector, and in 1912 the neck protector was changed to more of a flap than just an extension of the back of the head harness.

I've got a chart showing the evolution of Spalding helmets on my website:

http://www.antiquefootball.com/helmet_evolution.htm

Chris Hornung
www.antiquefootball.com

[bobfreedman]

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[71buc]

Very cool Starcal display. I love that kind of stuff!

[YankeeFan]

This actually found me at a flea market on Saturday. It's been a real looooong time since I've found something like this at a flea market!

September 28, 1960 Boston Red Sox ticket stub and Ted Williams signed, scored program. Teddy Ballgame's last ball game and, of course, a walk-off home run of another kind.

[yankeesjetsfan]

Very cool pickup Jack!

Mike

[pherbener]

Awesome find Jack!! I'm always looking for stuff like that at Flea Markets etc. never found anything like that though!

[irv]

Originally Posted by YankeeFan

This actually found me at a flea market on Saturday. It's been a real looooong time since I've found something like this at a flea market!

September 28, 1960 Boston Red Sox ticket stub and Ted Williams signed, scored program. Teddy Ballgame's last ball game and, of course, a walk-off home run of another kind.

A find we all dream of!

[horzverti]

Excellent Carlton. Monkeys playing sports is right up my alley! .

[bobfreedman]

Great graphics on this and comes with the glove. I may be selling this if anyone is interested?

[perezfan]

That might be the prettiest of all the "Golden Era" Glove Boxes. Either that particular Mantle, or the Rogers Hornsby from about 20 years prior.

What a gem!

[megalimey]

Originally Posted by bobfreedman

Great graphics on this and comes with the glove. I may be selling this if anyone is interested?

pm sent

[jsage]

Jerry Sage
jssage24@yahoo.com

[Scott Garner]

I finally filled another gaping hole in my no-hitter ticket collection.
After searching for this ticket for 45 years, I finally found it in Ontario, Canada of all places. A true global search...
To be honest, I wasn't sure that I ever would. More on that later...

On September 16, 1965 Red Sox pitcher Dave Morehead made history by hurling a 2-0 no-hitter against the Cleveland Indians. 23 year-old Morehead came extremely close to pitching a perfect game; his only blemish was a walk that he issued on a 3-2 count in the 2nd inning.

Back to why this ticket was so challenging to locate. In 1965 the hapless 9th place Red Sox were wedged in between seasons where they were competitive.

According to the official box score, Morehead's no-hitter on September 16th had a miniscule 1,247 fans in attendance. Peter Gammons wrote about Morehead's no-hit game many years later in the Boston Globe and said that there were probably no more than 500 fans actually in the seats as he was one of them...

Finding any ticket to this game was a true snipe hunt, but finding two of them including one that was actually vintage signed on the back by Dave Morehead and his shortstop Eddie Bressoud the day of the no-hitter is downright crazy! The 2nd ticket was signed by Red Sox great Tony Conigliaro. All 3 of these players (Morehead, Bressoud and Conigliaro) were part of the starting nine during Morehead's no-hitter.

My no-hit ticket collection now stands at 205 tickets to different no-hitters dating back to 1901. 144 of the tickets are signed by 145 no-hit pitchers.

Ironically, I just wrote a letter to Morehead asking him to sign a program to his high school graduation that was a recent eBay purchase.
A multi-sport star, Dave Morehead graduated from Herbert Hoover High School in San Diego, the same alma mater that produced baseball greats HOF Ted Williams and catcher Ray Boone of the famous baseball Boone family (3 generations of BB players). Morehead for many years has now lived in Tustin, CA, literally 5 blocks from the home I grew up in. Strange coincidence!

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by bobfreedman

Great graphics on this and comes with the glove. I may be selling this if anyone is interested?

Great box and Mantle glove combo!

[JoeDfan]

Even though I am a Yankees fan, I picked up this nice Johnny Pesky coach's jersey. I will even find a spot for it on the wall in my Yankees room...

[ooo-ribay]

Another great story, Scott! You have 205 no-hitter tickets, dating back to 1901....how many are missing from that time frame?

[perezfan]

Great find, Scott.... Talk about a needle in a haystack!

Glad you finally tracked this one down... it miraculously found its proper home!

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by ooo-ribay

Another great story, Scott! You have 205 no-hitter tickets, dating back to 1901....how many are missing from that time frame?

Hi Rob,
In order to find all of the no-hitters dating back to 1893 (the year that the mound distance moved to the current 60' 6" standard), which would be impossible, I would still need to find tickets to 81 no-hitters including a few that don't technically match the modern criteria of what defines a true no-hitter (at least 9 complete innings without giving up a hit).

What's realistically the number that I still believe is findable?
I only need tickets to 12 no-hitter games dating to 1935. I'd also would like to upgrade about 3 or 4 of the tickets that are in my collection.
In my mind, I still believe that this may be attainable. With luck, perhaps a few more...
The search continues & it's been a really fun collecting challenge.

[smotan_02]

Program from a significant game between Army and Carlisle featuring Jim Thorpe and a future President.




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[slidekellyslide]

Congrats Scott! I had no idea you'd been at your quest for 45 years. How hard was it to locate tickets before ebay and the internet? Must have been nearly impossible.

This is stuff I have picked up recently, mostly this month (I got most of this stuff in Oregon at antique malls while I was on vacation)

The autographed balls are 1948 Detroit Tigers team, 1953 Seattle Rainiers team, Single signed Casey Stengel. There are 4 Wilson Autograph Series Nelson Fox with 2 of them still sealed (this ball must be a lot harder to find than the other Wilson auto series balls as I can find nothing in my internet searches), a Colavito Hartland (working on a "found in the wild only" set. I can never find them with the bat though), Drysdale mini-bat, Lincoln vs Philadelphia A's exhibition game ticket and an ink blotter featuring Bronko Nagurski from 1937.

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by slidekellyslide

Congrats Scott! I had no idea you'd been at your quest for 45 years. How hard was it to locate tickets before ebay and the internet? Must have been nearly impossible.

This is stuff I have picked up recently, mostly this month (I got most of this stuff in Oregon at antique malls while I was on vacation)

The autographed balls are 1948 Detroit Tigers team, 1953 Seattle Rainiers team, Single signed Casey Stengel. There are 4 Wilson Autograph Series Nelson Fox with 2 of them still sealed (this ball must be a lot harder to find than the other Wilson auto series balls as I can find nothing in my internet searches), a Colavito Hartland (working on a "found in the wild only" set. I can never find them with the bat though), Drysdale mini-bat, Lincoln vs Philadelphia A's exhibition game ticket and an ink blotter featuring Bronko Nagurski from 1937.

Hi Dan,
Finding things was much harder, and trading was much more common than dollars changing hands. I used "wanted to buy" boards in local baseball card stores for leads.
Phone calls and letters were the way that most transactions took place based on networking at shows, answering ads in SCD, etc.
The internet has really helped the search, but I still find a lot of my tickets just through general networking with other collectors.

[bocca001]

Thanks to Rob (Fballguy), I was able to track down this item, listed as an LA Rams related item. It belonged to the Rams/49ers/Santa Clara University trainer, Henry Schmidt. It has signatures from Tom Fears, Norm Van Brocklin, and Elroy Hirsch. But, more importantly for me, it clearly started during the Santa Clara University 1949 season, which ended with an Orange Bowl victory over Bear Bryant's Kentucky team. Unfortunately, Bryant did not sign the hat. I always heard that he was pretty pissed about this loss, and never wanted to talk about it.

[kdixon]

Wire photo of Zach Wheat on This is Your Life Tv Show. Wheat is in the middle with Ralph Edwards on the left and Casey Stengel on the right. Wheat and Stengel were life long friends. They played together in KC and Wheat helped get Stengel a tryout with the Dodgers after he made it with them.

[Fballguy]

Originally Posted by bocca001

Thanks to Rob (Fballguy), I was able to track down this item, listed as an LA Rams related item. It belonged to the Rams/49ers/Santa Clara University trainer, Henry Schmidt. It has signatures from Tom Fears, Norm Van Brocklin, and Elroy Hirsch. But, more importantly for me, it clearly started during the Santa Clara University 1949 season, which ended with an Orange Bowl victory over Bear Bryant's Kentucky team. Unfortunately, Bryant did not sign the hat. I always heard that he was pretty pissed about this loss, and never wanted to talk about it.

Very cool. Glad you got it!

Rob

[MartyFromCANADA]

Picked up this guy from Hakes auction last night. For some reason, won't get the invoice until Saturday. Anyway, thanks to 'Jobu', Bryan for the heads up on this one.

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