April Vintage Pick-ups
 

1866 letter from Miami of Ohio (Oxford) - fellow just got 'elected' to the 'Miami Base Ball Club'

Wow!

Nice letter. It's amazing something like a piece of paper has lasted this long, when it easily could've been destroyed somehow throughout the years.

Nate, if you had been with me when we cleaned out my great-grandmother's boxes of documents, you would change your opinion on things surviving.

What year was determined to be the cutoff for an item to considered vintage?

I think we should have three pick up sections. Maybe one for pre 1915 called antique pick ups, then 1916-1979 considered vintage pick ups. And modern will be 1980 up. V:D

I don't think it matters - if you have something you think is 'vintage', put it here. I promise not to whine.

But I was thinking 1867

Lol

Another big St. Paul Saints pickup!

This is a 1940 Chicago White Sox jersey worn by Larry Rosenthal (the Saints were a high level minor league club affiliated with the White Sox in the 1930s). Rosenthal was one of the most popular Saints of all-time. Rosenthal was born in St. Paul and it was the Saints GM that discovered him. He played six seasons with the Saints and 8 in the Majors. After his pro career ended, he continued to play amateur ball in St. Paul.

Great Sox jersey!!

Nice pick up Chris!

Ted Williams Pennant
 

Made a trade with Grey Ghost to add this wonderful Ted piece to my son's collection...

Just got it back from my framer today so I thought I would share...

Thanks again Scott!

Ted looks good

Very nice.

Pennants
 

Picked up this 1910's oversized Minnesota Gophers pennant and a nice 1960's SF Giants pennant.

Snagged these negatives of Mantle's last ever at bat. September 28th, 1968. Mickey popped out to short in the first and was taken out for the ovation. Last time he ever swung the bat.

Nice Pennants, Dave and Joe!

Here's a cool (and huge) Easel-back Ad Sign that I recently picked up...

I like the sign.How big is it?

It's about 24" wide by 28" high by 6" deep... thanks

Great sign! I've seen a couple of PF generic sports signs lately, but they didn't have the baseball players. Those are tough!

Can't do much better than that for pinning a piece to a specific moment in time! Very cool:cool:

GREAT negatives, Randall. I have a nice scan of him walking to the dugout that's begging to be painted.

Graig

Thanks, yeah I think that would be a good one. According to the boxscore he was taken out after that at bat. I assume it was to get the ovation, but I am not 100% sure. Anyone know if he went out to his position in the bottom of the inning? If he did then that would be the last walk to the dugout.

Randall,
In the second picture, I notice 3 things that may help.
1) Mantle appears to be wearing a hard helmet.
2) Mantle doesn't have a glove with him.
3) It appears that most of the people in the stands are sitting.

I would assume from those facts that this was him walking back to the dugout after popping out. I don't know if he was sent back out to field the next inning to get an ovation when he was removed, but it seems like it's a fairly common thing to do. I would expect that if this was his last walk to the dugout, the crowd would be standing and he would be waving back to them.

Despite that they are pretty cool images that can be linked to specific moment in time.

Mark

Hi, yeah I figured the picture was of him walking back after theat bat. But I was wondering if they sent him back out to start the inning and then took him out. That photo I have never seen.

Fantastic Piece Mark!!! I love it:D

Thanks Mike!

Not an incredibly early piece, but it captures that romantic "golden era" of Baby Boomer Baseball :cool:

Randall,

I bet that the shot of him coming back to the dugout is after the at bat, and that he didn't take the field in the bottom of the inning. The NYTimes article from the next day makes a mention of Mantle having a sore right knee and ankle, and Houk only wanting him to take one swing that day, and only one the next. However, since he wasn't put in the next day, I guess he wasn't doing well enough to take that last swing. I would gather that no big deal was made of him coming back to the dugout after the pop out on the 28th, being that he played the full game the day before (though there is mention of him receiving a standing ovation during his first at bat of THAT game). What you probably have there is the final moment that Mantle was on the field during a game.

It's too bad we can't find out for sure whether the PA made an announcement when the Yanks took the field in their half. So of course, this is all just conjecture, but in my head, it seems to make some sort of sense. Then again, I just got back from the gym and my brain is noticeably fried. :)

Graig

Beautiful, Dave! ;)

GREAT pickups, Randall! Congrats! :eek:

American League Players Contract - 1924
 

Pat Olsen played with the Yankees in the early 20s, quit, went on to a career in oil, and eventually donated $$$$ to build the Texas A&M baseball stadium named in his honor. So while it's obscure, it's a huge find for me. :)

Cool Olsen pick-up. We were watching A&M vs Alabama this weekend and it reminded me of the opening of that stadium. For four years I had watched A&M's baseball games from the upper deck of the football stadium (before they added the third deck to Kyle Field), which formed the right-field wall of the baseball field. Pat Olsen stadium opened during my senior year (possibly my 2nd one) and was such a contrast - beautiful stadium, ball girls running around trying to find the foul balls we quickly hid. Great times. Mark Thurmond (later a Padre) was our star pitcher during those days.

Great times indeed. That was Kyle to Olsen was a huge change. Olsen to Blue Bell was another big leap. Lots of fun times. They need to get it together though. :(

I was referring to the opening of Pat Olsen - I didn't realize they had built another stadium!

Another PF display
 

Mark's post inspired me to drag out my PF sign.

Not sure how long I'll be keeping this one. But a 1930 game used bat of Frank "lefty" O'doul. Bat is in great shape, uncracked and just shows acouple ball and cleat marks.

OK, thats sounds about right. I always wondered wny he didn't play the last game. I thought maybe they would do like the Red Sox did with Ted Williams and not play him on the away games so the home crowd got to see his final at bat. But Mantle was not even sure he was retiring so i guess this was really no big deal.

Spectacular, Dave...

That particular one may be best of the bunch. Condition looks amazing as well :)

Brock, please don't sell that O'Doul bat - it rules. I think that man was super underrated. And awesome. Actually, that shouldn't really play a role in your decision to keep or sell it. I just think it's a great piece.

Graig

Billy Madison reference?

April Pickups
 

Here is a small group of my recent Eagles pickups, in addition to a neat Phillies piece. The Eagles group includes a 1960's Eagles Cheerleader jacket, a late 1940's Vic Sears game used Eagles jersey, a 1978 cold weather long sleeve gamer, and a 1966 Irv Cross Eagles Pro Bowl Helmet. This helmet was Cross's actual Eagles helmet, that was painted gold, and had the NFL logos applied.
The Phillies piece is the original (or one of the originals) photos used to make the 1950 Phillies newspaper supplement panoramic photos. The photo has the gray photographer's paint applied around each player's head and above, and the last 3 players on the right were added into the photo. The photo is in 2 pieces, and has player's identifications glued below each player (some have fallen off).
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http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n...ps40293b7f.jpg
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Great pick ups. I love the Eagles stuff!!

Pickups
 

Thanks a lot Steve!

Earl Averill at Fenway park showing off his new jersey the day after he was sold to Detroit http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/04/13/9ugu9ube.jpg

Hal Newhouser on the mound during his Triple crown year of 1945. wish I could pinpoint what game this was as It just has the year scrawled on the back http://img.tapatalk.com/d/14/04/13/avuzejem.jpg

GREAT shots, Sebie!!

I especially love the Averill showing off the new togs at Fenway. It's great to see the Botany Ties advert on the wall.

Graig

2010 Ivan Rodriguez game used bat
2012 Giancarlo Stanton game used bat- mlb authenticated and cracked 6/15/12
1980-82 Jack Clark game used bat

Pic 2

Just picked this up letter from Al Bridwell.

Love the Ripper bat, Nate!