Milwaukee Braves Ushers uniform
 

Dave-any truth to dating these based on the number on the jacket? Thanks for any info you might have.

Koufax and Harvey Haddix pickups
 

Well, March has really been a fertile month for pickups.
I just completed the purchase of another hobby friends' 30 year collection.
Lots of cool stuff that I am still sorting through right now.
Here are two cool Koufax and Bob Gibson items that also came by way of my friend Phil Paul:

The first piece is a circa 1962 signature of Sandy Koufax on stationary from the Hotel Roosevelt in NYC.
It's quite possible that this was signed by Sandy upon his 1st return to NYC after the westward migration of the Dodgers from Brooklyn in 1958 to play the new expansion NY Mets franchise in '62. The Dodgers did stay at the Hotel Roosevelt when playing the Mets. 'Tis a dandy signature, for sure...

The second piece is a beautifully scored scorebook to Bob Gibson's 20th win in his spectacular 1968 season (1.12 ERA!!) This game also allowed Gibson to pass Sandy Koufax on the single season shutout list.
In this game Gibson got his 13th SHUTOUT in the '68 season, passing Sandy's record of 12 shutouts.
Ironically, Sandy Koufax worked this game as a broadcaster for NBC and beautifully signed the front of this scorebook.

Finally, from my collection purchase, I was able to find a second ticket stub to the exceedingly tough Harvey Haddix game in which he pitched 12 innings of perfect ball against the hometown Milwaukee Braves before ultimately losing the contest. Many would consider this to be the greatest pitching performance ever...
Very few of these ticket stubs are out there in the hobby. Perhaps less than 6 of these are known to exist...

Enjoy!

Milwaukee Braves Ushers Jackets
 

I have no first hand knowledge for the Braves, but I do know for other clubs, the # on the badge, cap or jacket referred to an assigned employee number. That being said, a lower number would indicate someone hired before a someone who would be given a higher number.

I'm not sure you could date the jackets by the number on the logo alone, but I would love to hear how this theory (you can date the jacket by the number) is explained in an objective manner.

Dave Grob

Ball Park Museum
 

Have yet to get out there, but I correspond with Bruce on a pretty regular basis based on our shared interest in ball parks. He has a some incredible stuff and we have traded items back and forth for a while. Great Guy for sure.

Dave Grob

Bruce who owns and operates it is a class act. I've bought and sold many stadium items to him and the museum over the years.

He's definitely extremely passionate about the game!

I had a chance to speak to Bruce for about 20 minutes.
Busy day at the museum as he was permanently installing a vintage Shibe Park turnstile. I agree that he is a great guy.

1986 George Brett Photo
 

I picked up the attached photo in the RMY auction. On the back it said "1986 baseball special pg 3 & pg 10" I found the 1986 Sporting News Baseball special and sure enough its on pg 3 & 10. What fun :)

Great pickup Sandy! I would love to see your collection all scanned. You should upload them all to say.. a george brett type 1 photo fan page on facebook for free! :)

george brett type 1 photos
 

Maybe I will :)

It's hard to "compete" with Dave, Scott and/or the Brett collector, but here's something I found and was thrilled to get for CHEAP!

This is a work shirt, freshly laundered 58 years ago and wrapped with a Giants 1959 home schedule, produced by Magic Seal of Denver, CO.

Now that's cool! How is it after 58 years that the shirt was never unwrapped.

Hank Aaron signed Don wingfield Type 1 photo. Now i just gotta find out what year this was taken. Has to be after 1957 based on the patch

http://i450.photobucket.com/albums/q...pspsepidqe.png

Probably not as unusual as you might think. I just ran across a bunch of Boy Scout shirts wrapped the same exact way from at least the 1940-50s era...of course the wrap didn't include a cool baseball schedule on it. I think there are a lot of homes out there filled with stuff like this. Unfortunately a lot of it gets thrown away.

Nice one, Rob! I've never seen a schedule presented like this.

Old Yankee Yankee Stadium
 

I suspect it won’t be too long before this artifact requires a bit of explanation. For the fan that carries their ticket on a smart phone or a printed out receipt that is simply scanned, it may be hard to fathom that one time, people actually had individual printed tickets. Not only this, but post game activities may have involved a hand count and reconciling of these torn stubs with the number recorded on the turnstile counter.

Dave Grob

Hank Aaron Jersey
 

Actually the patch makes it post-1956. The numeric font style and lack of a name on the back make it 1958-1962. This is also likely road jersey.

Dave Grob

NY Yankees Team Physican Trunk
 

Love the graphics and timing of the piece; 1934-1937. Dr. Spies could have given Ruth his last physical for the Yankees and DiMaggio's first.

Dave Grob

I think there's a 1962 team issue photo with the same image.

You find some incredible stuff, Dave!

Ya i think youre right. But the auto still is late 50's style so not sure

1913/1914 World Tour Retrospective

Tons of great photos of the participants around the world. Spine is fairly well shot to hell but the cover itself is pretty nice and the inside pages are wonderful.

http://i792.photobucket.com/albums/y...situdxtsw.jpeg

Tom C

Very cool