Your 2023 Pick Up of the Year

[GaryPassamonte]

Let's see your favorite pick up of 2023. Mine is this 1876 Chicago display piece.

[Vintagedeputy]

Tough choice, but probably this 1919 World Series program.

[71buc]

It’s tough to identify one favorite pick up from this year. Nonetheless I’ll play by the rules. This "Sportsman Award" presented to Roberto Clemente on July 24, 1970, during "Roberto Clemente Night" ceremonies at Three Rivers Stadium is my favorite addition. It originated directly from the Clemente family. The large brass plaque bears a portrait image of Clemente engraved at the top with the following inscription: "Sportsman Award To Roberto Clemente/Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Club/Friday, July, 24, 1970/ For Outstanding Athletic and Humanitarian Achievements/Presented By/Allegheny County Civic Sportsmen's Association/Pittsburg, Pennsylvania." It measures 15 x 19 and was matted and framed to total dimensions of 20.5 x 25.5 inches. I believe it’s one of the prettier awards given to him that night. The engraved portrait and mention of his humanitarianism checked all of the boxes for me. This photo really doesn’t do it justice.

[robw1959]

I will go with this Honus Wagner letter, written on hotel stationery in the middle of the 1933 baseball season. It conveys several things about Wagner: he had good friends like this "Arty," he loved outdoor activities like fishing, but most of all, he was devoted to the Pittsburg Pirates, with whom he was either a player or a coach for sixty years!

[guy3050]

My Bill Stoneman's 1972 game worn Expos Road Flannel..and then meeting Bill

[bnorth]

I picked up this P72 Wade Boggs Pro Stock/Team Index bat from a fellow member in a trade. Finding a Boggs Pro Stock that is not a C235 or B349 is fairly rare and if at a reasonable price I pick them up. I still need to clean it up a little and retape the handle. I also need to get off my lazy butt and build another bat display. I have a decent display that holds 20 bats with another 20 leaning against it that should be in a display.

[aquarius31]

Originally Posted by GaryPassamonte

Let's see your favorite pick up of 2023. Mine is this 1876 Chicago display piece.

Wow Gary, truly amazing pick up, congrats!!


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[sicollector1954]

This September 11,1948 perfect game semi final playoff game used baseball pitched by Marge Holegson and signed by 15 of the Rockford Peaches players.....along with most of the collection that once was saved by former Rockford Peaches bat girl Doris Calacurcio.

[eastonfalcon19]

All great pickups. Mine would be this 1979 Dave Winfield game used bat from the Eric Gregg estate.

[ooo-ribay]

Great stuff, guys!

I think this is pretty easy for me. I've been looking for one of these for years. I had four ebay searches, each with different word combinations. One finally popped up, at a decent price. The second example I've ever seen. It came from the kid of a former Giants player. I have since found a suitable vintage pen but I'm too lazy to re-photograph it.

[todeen]

Favorite find in the wild: large team photo wearing grandma's drapes. Found in North Idaho antique store.

Favorite Net54 pickup: 1990 Barry Larkin GU bat with stadium certificate. Really grateful for the member who sold it!

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[Musashi]

and I had the money in hand, so I had to jump on this one

[Snapolit1]

My final pickup of the year and I think it's pretty cool. The top is a composite photo (Type 3) sold last week by Goldin. I have had the bottom photo of Ruth's feet for years. Yeah, sort of an odd ball photo, but obvious from verso that its the TYpe 1 photo used for the composite. Neither photo particularly expensive but together I like it.

Pristine photos are cool, but working photos like this are very cool. I like the markings on old photos.

[John1941]

This thread is mind-boggling.

[Schlesinj]

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[Chris Counts]

Here's a mid-1940s St. Louis Browns cap I recently found on eBay.

[perezfan]

Stunning! Who pained the Babe Ruth Nat Fein image? What a mastery of impressionism.... just beautiful.