February Pickups

[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

[smotan_02]

Not the best photos, but here is my recent pickups, framed, and displayed. Early 19teens hand-written plays by Army Coach Charles Daly, 1899, 1908, and 1910 Army Navy tickets, and a cabinet of Truman Murphy (played in first Army-Navy game).

Niche area, but I like them.

[bengineno9]

A postcard of Harley "Pete" Wood (Smoky Joe's brother) at the University of Kansas. Pete's actual postcard that he sent to his cousins back home in Ness City, KS in 1909.

[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

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

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Pic 2

[71buc]

I picked up these two snapshots taken outside of Three Rivers during the 1971 Series. They are obviously more appealing to my palate but I'm a simple and easily entertained fellow.

[ooo-ribay]

Originally Posted by 71buc

I picked up these two snapshots taken outside of Three Rivers during the 1971 Series. They are obviously more appealing to my palate but I'm a simple and easily entertained fellow.

Is she wearing a Pirates hat? If so, do you have one? What's in her hand? A cowbell? I like "old" photos too....a lot of times you'll see stuff you "need" in them.