Your favorite team

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Posted By: Clint

Show us something of your favorite team. It could be from any level of play. I bought this mainly for the helmet, but it does have autographs of Palmer and the Robinson's on it.


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Posted By: Dan Bretta

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Posted By: Greg Theberge

Memories of a Very Good Year

My one "souvenir" from the 2004 season: a game-used World Series base, game two, the famous "bloody sock" Schilling game. The rest is all dusty old stuff from before Prohibition.

My wife, daughter and I had a lot of fun that year. Ahhhh the memories




Getting ready for the best parade we've ever seen

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Posted By: Greg Theberge

Dan, you sure that's your favorite team?

Cool piece. Great Orioles helmet too!

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Posted By: Jeff Lichtman

Greg, how in the hell did you get a WS game used base?

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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Well...my favorite team that is not defunct is also your favorite team, but oddly enough I don't really go out of my way to collect Red Sox items. I would have to say my favorite Red Sox item is a 1945 Program from June 23, 1945 which is the day my dad was born. He lived as a child in Boston before my grandma got homesick for Nebraska and I assume forced my grandpa to move here. I still have lots of family out there, but I have never met them, and now that my dad and grandpa are gone I doubt that I ever will meet them. If you've been a lifelong Bostonian my last name may be familiar as my uncle was a politician there...Mayor of Somerville, state senator and head of the General Services Administration during the Carter presidency.

I do have this photo of Jimmie Foxx from spring training in 1936...this could possibly be the first photo of Foxx in a Red Sox uniform.

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Posted By: Greg Theberge

Dan,

That is an awesome photo of Jimmie.

I actually grew up and presently live in Rhode Island, about an hour's drive from Boston (and home of the Paw Sox, the triple A affiliate of the Sox). Lived in Boston for 7 years going to school there (even lived a year in Somerville!). My wife is from Medford, a town adjacent to Somerville and my mother in law grew up in the Italian North End of Boston. She even knew Anthony from the Prince Spaghetti commercials (I think only a New Englanda may even know what the heck I'm talking about there).

If you ever get out here give me a ring. There's actually a great Sports show coming up the first weekend in November, a bit north of Boston in the town of Wilmington (anybody on here going?).

That's pretty cool about your family.

Jeff, I purchased the base in a MLB auction the December after the World Series. They had a few bases, some game used balls, etc. Ugly auction, but I just had to get something to remember the year by. My wife is really into the Sox (she's glued to the t.v. as I type this) so it was a great memory of a lot of fun times we shared together that year. It's the only thing I have that isn't from before 1920 with the exception of a ball Johnny Pesky signed for us when we met him. What a great guy he is. A true gentleman.

Here's hoping the Sox don't go defunct

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Posted By: Greg Theberge

Is anyone else having a problem posting? For some reason, I've double posted twice tonight and edits have come out multiple times (???). It's probably my computer.

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Posted By: Clint

Greg, that's a great story. That's a piece you and your family can cherish for a long time. Were you at that game or any during the series?

Clint

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Posted By: Greg Theberge

I wish I was able to go to the games but watching them on t.v. kept me up late enough as it was. Unfortunately, that annoying thing called work requires me to be really alert at 8:00 in the morning.

I actually looked into tickets if they came back to Boston for game 5. Two bleacher tickets were going for $5000. Ouch!

I'm fortunate to get up to Fenway a few times a year, and to a few games at McCoy (Pawsox) as well.

Indians just scored. $@#%

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Posted By: Greg Theberge

Well, it's now 6-0...just ducky. I can hear some fat lady off in the distance clearing her throat as I type.

This is about as pleasant as watching your pet get euthanized.

I'm going to go stare at my base a while and remind myself that 2004 wasn't a dream.

(where have I felt this sinking feeling before? )

Alas....back to reality in Beantown

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Posted By: Clint

Greg, don't give up yet, remember that Orioles game this year. I know the Indians aren't the Orioles, but if the Sox get hot look out.

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Posted By: Chris Counts

Even though I was born in Flint. MI and grew up just down the street from where the Angels play in Anaheim (and still do, despite the delusions of their owner that they play in Los Angeles), my favorite team is the Reds. The first year I followed baseball was in 1970, when I was 9. That was the start of the Big Red Machine era. But what really sealed it for me was watching the All-Star game that year. When Pete Rose took out Ray Fosse and scored the winning run, it simply blew me away. I immediately began to copy his every move on the field, from running out a walk, to crouching before I swung and, of course, sliding headfirst. I never took up gambling, though. At an early age I determined my money was better off in baseball cards ...

Here's my favorite Reds' card, 1940 Play Ball color proof of Lonny Frey ...

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Posted By: Keith

The Philadelphia Eagles:
Here is my Eagles Kail Collection

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Posted By: Anonymous

As I post this Im hoping for a little more magic for the Sox ala 2004!

Heres some of my World Series collection.


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I currently have most of the 25 man roster on 8x10s or larger!

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Posted By: David Atkatz

began here, in 1903. This is an original photo, c. 1903-1904.



You are looking across Broadway (running left (south) to right (north)) at 166th Street, at the main entrance of Hilltop Park, home of the Greater New York Base Ball Club of the American League.

Here is a shot I took in 2003 of the very same location. It's the entrance to the maternity area of Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, where my son Daniel had just been born.

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Posted By: Greg Theberge

"As I post this Im hoping for a little more magic for the Sox ala 2004!"

You're way more optimistic than me, my friend.

There's just a few problems:

The 2004 Yankees are not the 2007 Tribe

The top and bottom of the lineup are slumping

Despite the admiration I have for him personally, we have a non-responsive/non-reactionary manager who seems to be unaware of the events that are unfolding around him. I can't for the life of me understand how he keeps sticking with the same lineup night after night when he sees it's not working. I don't know if it's loyalty to players, information coming from the higher ups, or just plain Grady Little syndrome. Why is Ellsbury sitting on the bench? Bobby Keilty has a pretty good track record against these guys. Why is he on the bench except for game one? I absolutely love Dustin, but he's as cold in October as he is in April. Maybe it's the cold weather, I don't know. Where's Cora? I would think that if one sees a trend, and something's not working over two nights, then three, one might say to themselves it's time mix it up a bit.

Then again, I'm not a manager of a big league ball team. You would think I would be used to this by now

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Posted By: Greg Theberge

David,

I just read your post again. That is so cool that your son was born in that location. What a great photo and memory.

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Posted By: Rob Dewolf

My favorite Cleveland Indians item is a 1948 World Series ring, but I don't have a photo and wanted to post something. This is in my top five, from 1916:

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Posted By: Steve

nothing as cool as some other stuff on here, but my favorites so far...

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Posted By: David Atkatz

"That is so cool that your son was born in that location. What a great photo and memory."

Thanks Greg. As you probably have figured out by now, I collect vintage New York Yankee material, with an emphasis on the period 1903-1927. So I probably would have gone after that photo regardless. But after my youngest son was born at that very spot, I had to have it, and probably overpaid a bit.
(I'll pass it on to him, of course)

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Posted By: Greg Theberge

Dave,

As they say in the commercials, that's "priceless". THAT is Money Well Spent and Well "Invested".

Of course, I'll have to discredit you a few points for being a Yankees fan.

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Posted By: Greg Theberge

Rob.

That is one exceptionally nice pennant. Thanks for sharing.

Now go burn the damn thing.

Only kidding, the tribe is killing me right now and they way outplayed the Sox so far in the series. They deserve everything they've achieved so far. I still hate them , but they're an awesome team.

Hopefully tonight's trainwreck won't be the last I see this year, but I'm not hoping for much.

Steve, thanks for posting your stuff. It's great to see more members on here post their material.

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Posted By: Rob Dewolf

Wow, somebody hates the Tribe. I guess that's progress.

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Posted By: Greg Theberge

Rob, note the smiley faces. I actually don't hate the tribe. I'll be behind them all the way once the Sox are out of it.

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Posted By: barrysloate

David- that 1903 photograph is incredible, and the story of how it connects to your son's birth is equally amazing.

So my favorite team? I guess the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings, as Harry Wright is my favorite 19th century baseball figure.