False Babe Ruth 500th Home Run Ticket - How can PSA date this ticket??????

[ajenks3378]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

One ticket would get you in for the doubleheader so if the 49th home date (as opposed to the 49th home game) was August 11th that makes sense. I have no idea about the year issue though.

The 49 has nothing to do with a game number. Those tickets are numbered all over the map. Seen them up to 150+

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by ajenks3378

The 49 has nothing to do with a game number. Those tickets are numbered all over the map. Seen them up to 150+

I was taking other's premise and running with it.

[hcv123]

Call it to the attention of the #1 500HR ticket collector who has it listed on Ebay? Perhaps in the context of asking for additional substantiation of why he believes it is what PSA called it.

[Shoeless Moe]

Originally Posted by hcv123

Call it to the attention of the #1 500HR ticket collector who has it listed on Ebay? Perhaps in the context of asking for additional substantiation of why he believes it is what PSA called it.

I emailed him earlier today, he has yet to reply.

[perezfan]

Good luck with that!

[Streetsideguy]

I see many of you have concerns regarding my 1929 Babe Ruth 500 HR ticket. I have owned the ticket since 2011 and it was owned by another ticket collector prior to that. I did some research as well regarding the ticket number. The one listed above by Steve D is incorrect. Here is the actual schedule based on the Baseball Almanac.

April
16 (Ticket 1), 17 (Ticket 2), 18 (Ticket 3), 19 (Ticket 4) - Detroit
22 (Ticket 5), 23 (Ticket 6) - Chicago

May
1 (Ticket 7) - St Louis Browns
4 (Ticket 8), 5 (Ticket (), 6 (Ticket 10) – Washington Senators
7 (Ticket 11), 8 (Ticket 12), 9 (Ticket 13) - Boston
10 (Ticket 14), 11 (Ticket 15),- Philadelphia
13 (Ticket 16), 15 (Ticket 17) - New York
23 (Ticket 18 DH), 23 (Ticket 18 DH), 24 (Ticket 19), 25 (Ticket 20), 26 (Ticket 21), 27 (Ticket 22) - St Louis

June
16 (Ticket 23) - Philadelphia
19 (Ticket 24), 20 (Ticket 25), 22 (Ticket 26), 23 (Ticket 27) - Detroit

July
2 (Ticket 28 DH), 2 (Ticket 28 DH) 3 (Ticket 29), 4 (Ticket 30 DH), 4 (Ticket 30 DH), 5 (Ticket 31) - Chicago
7 (Ticket 32 DH), 7 (Ticket 32 DH), 8 (Ticket 33),- Boston
10 (Ticket 34), 11 (Ticket 35), 12 (Ticket 36), 13 (Ticket 37) - Washington
14 (Ticket 38), 15 (Ticket 39 DH), 15 (Ticket 39 DH) 16 (Ticket 40), 17 (Ticket 41) - Philadelphia
19 (Ticket 42 DH), 19 (Ticket 42 DH), 20 (Ticket 43 DH), 20 (Ticket 43 DH), 21 (Ticket 44) - New York

August
6 (Ticket 45), 7 (Ticket 46), 8 (Ticket 47) - Detroit
10 (Ticket 48), 11 (Ticket 49 Babe Ruth’s 500 HR Game) , 12, 13 - New York
14, 15, 17 - Philadelphia
18, 19, 20, 21 - Washington
22, 23, 24, 25 - Boston

September
2 - St Louis
24, 25, 26 - Chicago
28, 29 - St Louis

If you have an issue with the ticket it would probably be better to ask questions, and not bash me on Ebay and NET54. I will discuss with PSA tomorrow and see if they have questions regarding the ticket.

Jason Weil

[Shoeless Moe]

My apologies for saying you the seller had an in with PSA if you bought this from someone else. Then that person did.

One example: April 21 game is not accounted for on your list.

It was a scheduled game.

Rescheduled for July 2, the July 2 game thus made into a DH. Thus one would be numbered for the April 21 original game and the 1st game of the DH for July2. It was not a scheduled DH. So you have to account for the April 21 game.

Same goes for the 5/2 game the 5/3 game and so on.

You are not accounting for the games that got rained out. They obviously were scheduled prior to the season and numbered as such.

Please let us know how/why you are not counting these as games.

[mikehorne]

Originally Posted by ajenks3378

The 49 has nothing to do with a game number. Those tickets are numbered all over the map. Seen them up to 150+

The point made by ajenks3378 doesn’t get enough attention, but here are examples of what he’s talking about. The numbers can’t possibly refer to a game.

[Shoeless Moe]

I think for the most part the numbers DO refer to the games. Like the one is question here, 49, refers to home game 49 (prior to the season starting of course) not game 49 after rainouts.

Scott or David might be able to better speak to those funky numbers/letters on the ticket, but I think those are for makeup games. Games added due to rainouts or what have you, or even special event games. Figuring those out is nearly impossible.

[Shoeless Moe]

Also, I would not use Baseball Almanac, it doesn't show rainouts.

[mikehorne]

Originally Posted by Shoeless Moe

Also, I would not use Baseball Almanac, it doesn't show rainouts.

www.retrosheet.org > Data downloads > Schedules is a great resource and will show the original schedule (including scheduled DHs), postponed games, and makeup dates.

[megalimey]

Originally Posted by mikehorne

www.retrosheet.org > Data downloads > Schedules is a great resource and will show the original schedule (including scheduled DHs), postponed games, and makeup dates.

here is the actual home game schedule for the Indians In 1929

as you can clearly see Home Game 49 was not played on Aug 11th
just count schedule games JULY 4th D/H was a two ticket game so allocate 2 numbers
April 16 was Game 1 Sept 29th was Game #77
so here is conclusive proof
see picture

[Shoeless Moe]

Here is another error by PSA (so don't go by them either)

http://www.milehighcardco.com/1934_D...-LOT64125.aspx

Ticket is CLEARLY dated July 15.

However, the incident happened on July 13. See Wiki link or go to Baseball Reference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Gehrig

https://www.baseball-reference.com/b...93407130.shtml

"On July 13, 1934, Gehrig suffered a "lumbago attack" and had to be assisted off the field. In the next day's away game, he was listed in the lineup as "shortstop", batting lead-off. In his first and only plate appearance, he singled and was promptly replaced by a pinch runner to rest his throbbing back, never taking the field. A&E's Biography speculated that this illness, which he also described as "a cold in his back", might have been the first symptom of his debilitating disease.[49]"