May Pickups

[Jim65]

Won this in MEARS last night, 1977 Felix Millan game used bat

[WillowGrove]

Originally Posted by Jim65

Won this in MEARS last night, 1977 Felix Millan game used bat

Great bat Jim. Felix was my favorite. Got to tell him in spring training about 10 years ago that I still hate Ed Ott for what he did. Felix laughed. Still looked like he could field and stoke a hit over second base.

Great pick up.

[GoCubsGo32]

Another snapper for my HOF snapshot collection

[JoeyFarino]

[Lordstan]

Nice Gary and Joey

[Jim65]

Originally Posted by WillowGrove

Great bat Jim. Felix was my favorite. Got to tell him in spring training about 10 years ago that I still hate Ed Ott for what he did. Felix laughed. Still looked like he could field and stoke a hit over second base.

Great pick up.

Thanks, he was one of my faves as well. I remember the Ed Ott bodyslam like it was yesterday.

[RobertC]

I'm starting to get a few ticket stubs. For now, I'm trying to get one Hank Aaron home run game ticket stub for all 23 years that he played. I'll probably eventually expand this to include milestone games. Thanks Randall (mcgwirecom) for helping me take care of several years at one time. Just noticed that the my label on the last stub says 1975, but it should be 1976.

[mcgwirecom]

You are welcome. Once the hook is set on ticket collecting you will want to try and get them all. LOL I started collecting in 1998 innocently enough. McGwire looked like he was gonna hit 60+ homeruns so I decided to buy up tickets near the end of the year so I'd have the game he broke the record. then he went on a tear and I had to buy all of September to be safe. So I was happy I had #62 and #70. But i had some others too so I decided to get #60-70. I did that and then I decided to get the whole season. Then I tried to get full tickets only. Pretty tough since they tore them back then. Once I was almost finished I decided to get all his homeruns. Its the thrill of the chase! Now I have about a dozen different themes I am chasing.

All McGwire HRs
All Thome HRs
All Dunn HRs (thought he would make it to 500 but he quit on me!)
All Harper HRs
All Trout HRs

All Henderson 1982 stolen bases
All McLain 1968 wins
All Carlton 1972 Wins
All Story HRs from this year (rookie record?)
All Randy Johnson 15 Ks or higher

500th HRs
300th wins
3000th Ks
4 HR games
3 HR games
Perfect Games

500 HR Club milestones (1st, 100th, etc)
2002 A's 20 game win streak
Immaculate Innings (9 pitches 3 Ks)
Last K of a 300+ K season

[icollectDCsports]

Originally Posted by mcgwirecom

All Harper HRs
All Trout HRs

Gotta be a lot tougher now that there are a lot fewer real tickets (vs electronic and printed at home).

[mcgwirecom]

Yes, very! I spent many hours before the season started trying to find out who had season tickets and who did not. Then the ones that don't you need to cover yourself for those games. I went and bought tickets to many games to ensure I would have them. The big blow was the Nationals. They stopped printing season tickets 3 years ago. But as a courtesy to the season ticket holders they would print them box office style if they asked. This year, no dice. I ordered tickets online but they, as some other teams do, let Tickets.com handle the online sales. No one likes a Tickets.com ticket. its like a Ticketmaster, no team logos. I tried to find someone who live near the ballpark to buy me tickets at the window. I couldn't find anyone in time so I drove 3 hours down and 3 hours back in the snow and sleet to buy half a seasons worth of tickets at the window so I'd have mine. That sucked. Some teams that have season tickets are still tough to find people to sell you one! I am having trouble finding a Reds season ticket holder who will sell me a few tickets that I may need this year.

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by icollectDCsports

Gotta be a lot tougher now that there are a lot fewer real tickets (vs electronic and printed at home).

Yuuup!