February Pickups

[ruth-gehrig]

April 1, 1902 Georgetown vs. Yale Trophy Baseball. Georgetown won over Yale 2 to 1.

[WillowGrove]

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[WillowGrove]

Wow. Nice item there Michael. This one just came in the mail for me. Very excited as Josh Gibson, Oscar Charleston and three other Hall of Famers were on this team considered the best Negro League team of all time. If anyone knows any good online resources where I can find newspaper archives of this game please let me know. Pittsburgh Courier archives proved fruitless. Thanks for any help and thoughts. -peter

[gestut58]

Not a February pick up but went shopping in my garage and found these . I got them years ago and forgot about them they came out of the Rawlings factory that closed in Ava Missouri the mats were fried and they were put in my good intentions area and never got to them til now the brass tags on the frames with the location and year is pretty cool and have never seen any like them.

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Another

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3rd one

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4th

[jerseygary]

Originally Posted by WillowGrove

Wow. Nice item there Michael. This one just came in the mail for me. Very excited as Josh Gibson, Oscar Charleston and three other Hall of Famers were on this team considered the best Negro League team of all time. If anyone knows any good online resources where I can find newspaper archives of this game please let me know. Pittsburgh Courier archives proved fruitless. Thanks for any help and thoughts. -peter

On July 30th, 1931 in Crucible, PA, the Grays won their 17th consecutive game crushing Crucible 12-2. Oscar Charleston hit a double, triple and a homer. Josh Gibson and Tubby Scales also had 3 hits apiece and every man in the lineup that day hit safely at least once. Lefty Williams was the winning pitcher, giving up 8 hits and striking out 5 of the locals and the Grays had 16 hits.

This is from a book called "Phil Dixon's American Baseball Chronicles Great Teams: The 1931 Homestead Grays Volume 1". Dixon wrote some very good books on the Negro Leagues and this Grays book is one of the hardest to find as it's self-published. If you are interested in the '31 Grays, there is no finer and doggedly researched book than this. Dixon tracked down almost every single box score and newspaper article on virtually all the team's games that summer and wrote a nice recap of each one for this book. The one downside is that there is no comprehensive listing of year end statistics. In reality it wouldn't really reveal anything as most of the Grays games were against town teams like Crucible which was hardly up to the task of taking on the Grays. Still, it would have been neat to see a 3-tiered breakdown of how each player did against white minor league teams, Negro League teams and town and semi-pro teams.

Neat ticket!

[WillowGrove]

Originally Posted by jerseygary

On July 30th, 1931 in Crucible, PA, the Grays won their 17th consecutive game crushing Crucible 12-2. Oscar Charleston hit a double, triple and a homer. Josh Gibson and Tubby Scales also had 3 hits apiece and every man in the lineup that day hit safely at least once. Lefty Williams was the winning pitcher, giving up 8 hits and striking out 5 of the locals and the Grays had 16 hits.

This is from a book called "Phil Dixon's American Baseball Chronicles Great Teams: The 1931 Homestead Grays Volume 1". Dixon wrote some very good books on the Negro Leagues and this Grays book is one of the hardest to find as it's self-published. If you are interested in the '31 Grays, there is no finer and doggedly researched book than this. Dixon tracked down almost every single box score and newspaper article on virtually all the team's games that summer and wrote a nice recap of each one for this book. The one downside is that there is no comprehensive listing of year end statistics. In reality it wouldn't really reveal anything as most of the Grays games were against town teams like Crucible which was hardly up to the task of taking on the Grays. Still, it would have been neat to see a 3-tiered breakdown of how each player did against white minor league teams, Negro League teams and town and semi-pro teams.

Neat ticket!

OMG. Thank you so much for this info. So great to know what happened at this game! And yes I'm with you, from what I've learned about how they tracked stats for the Negro Leagues, I wish they broke down the numbers by type of opponent too.

thanks again Jersey Gary.

Peter

[UnVme7]

2005 Chipper Jones game used bat
2009 Omar Vizquel game used bat
Frank Thomas game used Hoosier bat

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Pic 2

[Westsiders]

Picked up this brass Louisville Slugger sign...think it's pretty cool.

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by Westsiders

Picked up this brass Louisville Slugger sign...think it's pretty cool.

Very cool! How big is it?

[Westsiders]

Originally Posted by ooo-ribay

Very cool! How big is it?

Thanks. It's actually pretty big....think it's around 11" wide.

[Shoeless Moe]

Originally Posted by ooo-ribay

Very cool! How big is it?

That's what she said.

The Northwest African American Museum recently sent me this 3 feet X 5 feet blow-up of a ca. 1909 Roslyn, Washington PC. This was at the NAAM's "Pitch Black : A History of Black Baseball in Washington", it was near the Amateur Roslyn miners items. NAAM curator Chieko Phillips sent it as a thank you for research contributed to the exhibit. She's the greatest!!!

This image is from the collection of another member, and the copy I recently picked up is dwarfed in the upper right hand corner. It's ridiculously large, any ideas on how to display this item? Heavy bond paper.

[71buc]

[QUOTE=pariah1107;1378643]The Northwest African American Museum recently sent me this 3 feet X 5 feet blow-up of a ca. 1909 Roslyn, Washington PC. This was at the NAAM's "Pitch Black : A History of Black Baseball in Washington", it was near the Amateur Roslyn miners items. NAAM curator Chieko Phillips sent it as a thank you for research contributed to the exhibit. She's the greatest!!!

This image is from the collection of another member, and the copy I recently picked up is dwarfed in the upper right hand corner. It's ridiculously large, any ideas on how to display this item? Heavy bond paper.

Ty that's a very nice photo Roslyn looks the same today

[btcarfagno]

Just added this really neat vintage baseball stitching "machine" from the Huggins and Scott auction yesterday. I am not comfortable calling it a machine as it really just held the ball and the leather in place while the ball was being hand stitched. I am also not confident that it necessarily dates to the 19th century, although I do not know if I will ever know the answer to that one way or the other as there are no manufacturers markings on it. The ones that I have seen that date to the 1920's or so had a spring that helped keep the two levers on top closed on the ball. This one seems to be more rustic in that there is a string and latch as opposed to a spring. This could potentially make it older than those I had seen previously, but does not necessarily make it a product of the 1800's. Although it certainly could be.

Anyway, I am going to be very happy with this item. It is nearly three feet tall!



Tom C

[eastonfalcon19]

Picked up this 1910 Michigan vs Syracuse program. I believe Branch Rickey was the head coach of Michigan at the time.

[Dave Grob]

Just arrived, but it is out the door shortly for an extended loan to the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and Museum.

Dave Grob
DaveGrob1@aol.com

Originally Posted by Westsiders

Picked up this brass Louisville Slugger sign...think it's pretty cool.

Nice! I picked up one of those a few years back and incorporated it into a bat rack.

[Westsiders]

Originally Posted by Gobucsmagic74

Nice! I picked up one of those a few years back and incorporated it into a bat rack.

Looks great! Had the same thing in mind when I picked it up.