Awesome! I always liked how the Astros programs featured the visiting teams as well.

Another trinket but I couldn't resist this Spring Training snap shot of Murtaugh:D

Love it!! It's funny how we "rationalize" our purchases in this hobby!:D

1895 Hughie Jennings mounted photo
 

Picked this up last night

Brad

I was hoping that Jennings would stay cheap so my opening bid would hold up, but glad you won it, its one of his best photos I have ever seen and was a good deal. The stuff I really want ends tonight so now I have some extra money to work with!

Congrats

Rhys

Thanks Rhys,

I thought it was going to go for actually quite a bit more than it did. But I was like I'll toss out one more bid and then go to bed and ended up surprised that it held. lol.

I'm interested in seeing it since the photo is mounted on board in seems like its almost postcard size. I'm not a huge collector of 19th century stuff but when things pop up that seem interesting I'll pull the trigger. So now I have this and my 1885 Chicago White Stockings imperial cabinet.

Good luck with your stuff tonight.

Take care,
Brad

Congrats Brad, that image of him is amazing.....

Thanks Greg!

Nice pickup Michael
 

Nice pickup Michael.

Looks like your cooper item was used to create 1906 PC792 Embossed "Batter & Catcher" Baseball Postcard.

Patrick

Thanks so much for the match up of that postcard!!:) Can you guess the next item on my want list? ;)

Scott, great collection! I was wondering, since so many of the teams don't print tickets for their season ticket holders, is it more difficult to find no-hitter tickets for games pitched recently than for games pitched in the good old days?

Rick

Thanks Rick!
There is no doubt that teams no-longer printing tickets is going to make collecting my theme extremely challenging moving forward. It's really sad because it eventually will lead to the death of collecting a theme like this.
When this happens I've come to the conclusion that I will have to focus my collecting to only vintage tickets.

Re; your question, each scenario has its own unique set of challenges.

In the good old days, fans didn't frequently save their tickets because they were often viewed as yesterday's trash and were tossed. To add to this, WWII saw paper items of all types disappear due to the war effort. Finding vintage tickets is a bit like finding a needle in a haystack (as I know you're aware of) since you collect Koufax tickets. For this reason I believe that vintage tickets will always have value because of limited supply and increasing demand.
The amount of baseball ticket collectors in the hobby has increased dramatically since 1998 and vintage tickets, like other memorabilia, still rules the roost IMHO.

Modern cardboard season tickets are infrequently actually being used by many seat holders due to e-tickets, leading to a prevalence of perfect mint tickets that are not torn like their earlier predecessors. This makes for easier collecting, but reduced potential for ever becoming a collectable that increases in value.

Even though this may be a crazy analogy, I actually see collecting vintage tickets to be a bit like collecting antique milk bottles. Eventually neither may exist, but there will still be collectors because of the novelty of them being reminiscent of a bygone era...

I asked my wife, "Who holds onto hotel soap from 70 years ago?" Her answer was "hoarders."

The Giants owned this place and conducted Spring Training there in the 40s and 50s.

Rob,
Is your wife calling you a hoarder now that you own the 70 year old Giants soap? :p

We are all pathetic hoarders to some degree.

Yes we are!

Agreed! Just ask my wife.

Brad, that Hughie is an absolute STUNNER. I DEFINITEY wanna paint that someday. Wonderful pick-up.

What are you going to do with all those 1971 ticket stubs?

I need you to come over for dinner one night so I can show off my new man-cave furnishings.

Not many people will recognize his name, but for those that do will appreciate it. I recently acquired this 1930s Oscar George "Ox" Eckhardt Hillerich & Bradsby game used bat. Very heavy use shown with countless ball marks, stitch marks, and slight dead wood suggesting this gamer was deployed for full service!

Eckhardt holds the all-time professional baseball record for batting average, counting both major and minor league stats. Eckhardt .367 career batting average ends up fractionally ahead of #2 Ty Cobb, who’s career .366 is lowered marginally by his minor league stats.

I don't recognize the name but that sure is a great bat. Excellent game use evident, as you point out. Congrats.

A new addition to my Olympic baseball collection. I've reached out to Mercersburg Academy to see if they can provide any information.

That fact is a tremendous thing to know, and the bat is a superb piece, too. Is it part of a theme of your collection? Such as players whose stats surpass Cobb's stats in one category? Minor league pheenoms?

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Added this pin to my Tiger collection

Scorecard
 

The look appeals to me for what I like to collect

I picked up a ticket stub and scored program from Joe DiMaggio's final multi-HR game on July 29, 1951. The Yankee Clipper hit 2 HR's in Game 1 of the doubleheader.

I've always wondered what Ruth was thinking in that photo.

Lar Lou in your living room -Type 1 photo
 

The clarity is outstanding for an 8x10 action shot and Gehrig is large.
Used for numerous pieces of memorabilia.

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very cool...

Thank you Leon. And purchased from a fellow board member no less. Net54 rules:)

It's always cool to see photos that inspired cards and images on other memorabilia. This one is fantastic.

Nice graphics, Bob. What's the size on that one?

Thanks R. J., It's about 3 1/2" x 6". There is I believe a similar yet larger display that I have been looking for for a while now that has more color and graphics but it has not come up for auction anytime soon.

Hod Eller Type I Charles Conlon photo circa 1919-1920 Reds
 

I was recently invited by the show promoter of the annual Thanksgiving Moeller High School baseball card show in Cincinnati to come check it out as his guest. Regionally this show is really well known for it's large turnout focused on Reds collectors everywhere.

Fortunately I was able to pick up a few really nice items, but the highlight was scoring this Charles Conlon Type I photo of Reds no-hit pitcher Hod Eller.
Eller pitched his no-hitter against the St. Louis Cards on May 11, 1919. He also was a member of the 1919 World Series Champion Cincinnati Reds and won 2 of the games in the infamous Black Sox series. I believe that this photo originates from the 1919 or 1920 season.

One curiosity is the fact that the photo has both the stamp of Charles Conlon and Paul Thompson. I am certainly not as well versed on early vintage photos on this board, but was wondering if this was very common?
Any help that you could give me would be greatly appreciated. :)

I love the image and it's the first Type I Conlon photo that I've ever added to my no-hit collection.

Great photo!

Leo's Giants
 

1951 New York Giants home jersey and a 35mm, 40" Wollensak telescope.

Dave Grob

I see what you did there

Nice pickup (whose jersey?)!

Great Eller photo! I like Eller because he always looks like a badass. My two cents - it is an original Conlon which was “borrowed” by Paul Thompson. It looks to have been captured at the Polo Grounds so it is either photographer’s backyard. I would guess that both photogs received credit for this image at different times of its use.

Leo's Giants
 

Roger Bowman. The best part is the jersey had a vintage number change from 38 to 28. While a draw back for some, this is huge as the #2 will be used to complete the restoration of my 1951 Leo Durocher home jersey.

Dave Grob

Great photo Scott! I believe Andrew (TCMA) has mentioned photos having both stamps but I've not seen it myself before.

One more this month
 

from LOTG

Thanks Jeff!

Great info, Curt! Thank you.
I definitely agree that Hod Eller looked like a badass. He was an Indiana raised farm boy, from what I've read. Although he didn't pitch for many years, he had a very solid performance with the exception of his last year where injuries likely were the root issue. His career ERA was really quite good from what I've seen.

Thanks Paul!

Just picked this type 1 photo up from the 1931 World Series. Babe trying to sneak into the A's lineup!

Great Babe photo!

Thanks Scott!

I can't remember seeing one of these in recent memory and was thankful to of snagged it.

An original Fatima Cigarettes large carton which would have housed the packs.

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Nice photo of Ruth Paul.

Cool Fatima carton Tony.

Cool pick-up Tony.