December Pickups
 

I'll start December off with this 1864-1868 cdv photograph. Love the image :)

Game and Ad Piece
 

Two pickups

Jesus Christ! Can we get Mr Freedman his own "EPIC PICKUP" sticky post?

Great pick-ups :)

+1 amazing!

My posts would look just like Bob's if I ever win the lottery. :D

Just got this in the mail today. I can't find any other photos out there signed by both Grange and his legendary coach Zuppke.

[QUOTE=slidekellyslide;1606876]My posts would look just like Bob's if I ever win the lottery. :D

Bob- has that Tiger Blood-- WINNING!!

Sweet Grange... great stuff folks

Miscellaneous "junk" I have snagged over the last week or two.

Great CDV Mike. Awesome pickups Bob as usual. Dan love that Grange photo. You guys are starting off December strong.

Love the "junk."

For me, junk > old photos :D

I LOVE that Grange and Zuppke! Great pick up!

Terrific $16 purchase for the month- Johnny Vander Meer Day Key to Midland Park
 

Here is a neat inexpensive pickup that originated from Johnny Vander Meer's personal estate:

This Key to the borough of Midland Park, NJ was given to Vandy on Johnny Vander Meer Day on May 1, 1976. Midland Park was hometown of Vander Meer.
Dimensions are 6" x 13"

$16 including shipping on eBay... Come to Papa. ;)

How cool and unique! and for only $16..congrats!

Scott that's a key pickup

I saw that....and, of course, thought of you!

What an absolute STEAL...

Congrats, Scott! 👏🏼

That is awesome Scott. I wish i could pick up anything owned by Gehrig for $16.

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Forbes Field Blueprints
 

Finally got some Forbes Field blueprints, one from 1925 and two different for the stadium seat replacement in 1946.

Awesome pickup Scott!!

Old Yankee Stadium
 

Nice section of the right field wall from the original Yankee Stadium. Sold publicly by Lelands in 2004.

Dave Grob

Thanks to all that posted about the Vandy Key to Midland Park.
I just proves that great deals are still waiting out there.
That's what's so fun about the hunt; you never know what kind of bargain you will find...

That's a great pick-up Dave. Awesome display piece

Nice pickup... found its way to the right collection.

+1

I picked up this huge 18x24 plaque from Heritage. The park that was dedicated to Irvin is about 3 blocks from where I grew up.

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Tom C

Yankee Stadium Wall
 

Thanks. One of the things I really love about this is the size. At 39" high, it allows for a jersey to displayed in front of it (32-34 torso) and have a nice period Yankee Stadium usher's uniform and cap displayed behind it.

Dave Grob

Not vintage but a great jersey. 2015 New York Mets Brooklyn Royal Giants Negro League GU Jersey, worn by Hitting Coach Kevin Long June 20, 2015 at Atlanta Braves.

Santa

I picked up these two items recently for my Alameda sports collection.

1935 Alameda Elks Majors vs Minors Charity Game Program. There was some guy by the name of DeMaggio on the minors team.

Andy Carey MLB debut ticket stub, Yankees vs Tigers.

Part of a wall. I like it.

Alameda
 

Hi Dewey,
Great Pickup, I'm sure we never had that one. Good seeing you in San Leandro last week,
Andy

Thanks Andy! Nice to see you at the show last week too. Hopefully I'll see you in June!

Very nice piece!

I was happy when I picked up 52 Topps copy as I was chasing a decent looking one for a while.
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Went to a local auction today and loaded my van full of tobacco tins, cigarette packs and ephemera. These are some of the items I think are of interest to the member here. The Helmar and Murad are still sealed...all of the other packs are still full of cigarettes, but not sealed. The matchbox is Capadura Cigars, I have seen many of the trade cards, but have never seen this matchbox before. The only other Yale cigar box I can find sold in a Heritage auction. This one is in much better shape than that one.

Wow Dan! Great stuff. Don't tease...tell us a little about this auction and the sale. (also is the $1 in the background for scale? :p)

Nice score Dan. Too bad those aren't 1970 Orioles buttons. Those are probably worth more though.

It was a local auction that was all cigar tins and boxes, cigarette packs, ephemera and World's Fair memorabilia. the Mets pins were out of place. :)

I think I got about 50 tins, 150 cigarette packs and probably 30 flats full of 1939 and 1964 New York Worlds Fair items. I filled up my van.

The auction company already removed the page, but here is a cached version of the sale I found on google.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.co...&ct=clnk&gl=us

edited to add: The dollar I actually do use in my ebay auctions for scale. :)

Dan, my Murad tin is in 'slightly' worse condition....but I am willing to sell it for only $223,000. ;)

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A bargain!!

Wally Pipp
 

I have to give thanks to Brian Van Horn for my latest December pick-up. I love the card and the story behind it.

Wally Pipp, NY Yankee first baseman and American League homerun leader in 1918 with 12 homers and 1917 with 9 homers was replaced as a starter in in 1925 by none other than Lou Gehrig. It was the start of the Iron Horse's 2130 consecutive games played.

1916 Sporting News M101-4 Walter Pipps PSA 4 VG/EX
http://www.net54baseball.com/attachm...1&d=1480829937

Tom Matte's varsity letter from his 1958 football season at Ohio State

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Couldn't pass up the opportunity to get this bronze of Walter Johnson. The detail is simply incredible. It was reproduced from a plaster statue made in 1924 by Ulric Dunbar. Dunbar made 50 of the plaster statues but only 3 are known to have survived. The bronze was licensed and issued on a very limited basis. This one is #7. It stands 18" tall and weighs over 13#'s.

Beautiful piece of art Clint:)

Thanks Mike! I've been admiring your Wilson trophy for awhile. When this showed up I couldn't resist.

Whoa! Awesome...Congrats on a great pick up!

Wow! Yeah that bronze is cool....Congrats! :)

Very nice, Clint. Goes great with your collection of WaJo PCs.

+1 Beautiful bronze statue of Walter! Congrats, Clint & Happy holidays!

Thanks guys! Happy holidays to you too Scott.

Picked up a couple of political pinbacks of Happy Chandler

Sounds like your bronze is the exact same size as the original. Do you know what year it was made and who made it?

Kevin, it was made from the plaster statue and is an exact replica in size. I'm not sure of the exact date but it was made sometime after the original was auctioned in 2006. It was made by Art Castings of Loveland, Colorado.

HOF Bob Lemon no-hitter ticket
 

Freshly acquired in a swap with net54 good guy Doug Goodman, here is a ticket from HOF'er Bob Lemon's no-hitter against the Tigers on June 30, 1948.
The ticket was paper clipped to a scored program from the game. The lucky patron that attended the game neatly notated: "No hit game June 30, 1948 Night" in pencil on the front of the bleacher ticket.

Thanks Doug!

Wow nice Scott. How many realistically obtainable no hit tickets do you still need?

Great question, Clint!
I have tickets to 203 of the 295 total no-hitters that have been pitched.
The operative word is "obtainable" as you mentioned. At one time I thought that obtaining no-hitter tickets prior to 1950 would be tough, which is true.
Persistence has paid off & I've actually found 23 that predate 1950, so who knows...

If you look at no-hitter tickets that I am still searching for from 1940 forward, the number is 14 different games. I would also like to upgrade between 3-4 of them that I do own
Not bad! ;)

Wow Scott I had no idea you had that many. That 's awesome!

This quest and the Howe McCormack T206 quest are my favorites on Net54. Nice pick up!

Picked up a couple local RPPCs


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Great cards Jon. I'm a big fan of RPPCs from that period.

Thanks Joe. I've been interested for a while and don't have many. I really enjoy them. To me these type of things tell the real story of how baseball is America's game or at least shows the sport was woven into who we are.




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Congrats Scott! I really enjoy when you make additions to your collections.

And way to think of Scott, Doug! :)

Thanks Clint, Dan and Peter!
Happy holidays to all of you. :)

Trophy
 

Finally picked up the catcher. It actually looks better than the photo.

That's a beautiful trophy
 

Congrats Bob,

That's a beauty!

Patrick

Congrats Bob! How tall is that one please?

thumbs up
 

great p/u

Bob, that trophy is gorgeous! Congrats on continuing your amazing roll in 2016.

Great trophy Bob. I've haven't seen that configuration before.

Scratched this 1904 Princeton/Cornell program of my want list....sorry for the link, I couldn't get the photo to load.

http://antiquesportscollector.com/images/IMG_2162.JPG

Here are a couple of other recent pickups for my Alameda Sports Collection:

Tommy Harper MLB Debut and 1st hit stub (4/9/62) along with an opening day photo from the Cincinnati Enquirer.

1930 Alameda Elks Charity Ballgame Ticket along with an article from the Oakland Tribune dated 10/24/30

I've had the very common 1 1/4" and the tough 3" versions of this pin for years, but the 1 3/4" has been extremely difficult to locate. Perhaps that is why Paul valued it much higher in his book. I'm just happy to have it in my collection at last:D

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An 8x10 photo of the Polo Grounds during the 1908 playoff game, Giants vs. Cubs.
The back stamp reads "Property of the News Library 220 East 48 (?) Street New York City"
The handwritten notes read "crowd at Polo Grounds game play off game Oct 8, 1908 Polo Grounds 1908 Photo of American Sport Pub Co Larry Doyle"

After 6 agonizing weeks of worry about this item it finally arrives. Was sent to a third party shipper after I won it. I figured it would take two weeks max to get to me...after three I started to worry, especially when I noticed the UPS tracking number was cancelled. Had to call and get the new tracking number and waited and waited. Saw that number too was cancelled a few weeks later. After lots of phone calls I got a new FedEx tracking number and here she is. This thing is a monster. Louis Van Oeyen "Postergraph". According to Hunt Auctions they believe these were player presentation items as the only other one they had was from the Smokey Joe Wood estate. That is a full size baseball bat next to the photo.

whoaaa

Outstanding "postergraph"! Agonizing was probably a huge understatement while waiting for this piece to arrive. I would have been a nervous wreck :confused:
Glad it arrived safe and sound for you! Outstanding piece!! Congrats :)

Whoa! The first Fathead poster!

Rob M

Pirates program
 

Picked up an advertising program to sell ads for the Pirates 1952 program.

quite unique

Incredible piece Dan!

Thanks guys. Trying to figure out where to hang it now, I'm afraid my walls won't hold it, it's pretty heavy.

I found this Cardinals scorecard over the weekend and bought it because of the signatures on the back and I noticed that a young Ernie Banks was penciled into the lineup. Went to Baseball Reference to get the actual game date and I discovered that this was the game where Banks hit his first career home run - September 20, 1953. Pleasantly surprised :)

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I make out Sal Yvars, Steve Bilko, Harvey Haddix, and the one and only "Vinegar Bend" Mizell. Can't opine as to the authenticity of the sigs but very cool program all the same.

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