February pick-ups

[mcgwirecom]

Snagged these in the Huggins & Scott Auction. happy to add to my ballpark seat collection.

[Joe_G.]

A recent pick-up from Scott Brockelman Auction . . . an attendance receipt from an early Detroit game. The receipt dates to May 12th 1883 and chronicles New York's share of gate receipts.

In 1883, NL ticket prices were 50 cents with 15 cents (30%) of the ticket price going to the visiting team. The May 13th Detroit Free Press helped me understand why there are two line items that differ in price/cost share. On May 12th, Detroit ran a first time promotion, a "Boys' Day", in which a dime would get the "little folks" into the ball park.

The Detroit Free Press box score indicates 2,270 in attendance with over 600 "little folks". The attendance receipt documents very similar numbers of 1517 adults, 622 kids, 2139 total. While George Watson, Detroit's treasurer, awarded 30% of each adult ticket to NY (per NL rule), he split the kid's tickets evenly (50%).


1517 adults X 15 cents = $227.55
622 kids x 5 cents = $31.10
Total = $258.65

Detroit's share would have been $562.50



On a side note, Dick Burns would beat John Montgomery Ward (New York's pitcher) 9 to 5. This was one of only two wins for Dick in 1883 as he went 2-12.

[parker1b2]

Originally Posted by Joe_G.

A recent pick-up from Scott Brockelman Auction . . . an attendance receipt from an early Detroit game. The receipt dates to May 12th 1883 and chronicles New York's share of gate receipts.

In 1883, NL ticket prices were 50 cents with 15 cents (30%) of the ticket price going to the visiting team. The May 13th Detroit Free Press helped me understand why there are two line items that differ in price/cost share. On May 12th, Detroit ran a first time promotion, a "Boys' Day", in which a dime would get the "little folks" into the ball park.

The Detroit Free Press box score indicates 2,270 in attendance with over 600 "little folks". The attendance receipt documents very similar numbers of 1517 adults, 622 kids, 2139 total. While George Watson, Detroit's treasurer, awarded 30% of each adult ticket to NY (per NL rule), he split the kid's tickets evenly (50%).


1517 adults X 15 cents = $227.55
622 kids x 5 cents = $31.10
Total = $258.65

Detroit's share would have been $562.50



On a side note, Dick Burns would beat John Montgomery Ward (New York's pitcher) 9 to 5. This was one of only two wins for Dick in 1883 as he went 2-12.

Nice pick up. I had a bid on that, thought it was a cool item.

[bgar3]

Picked this odd photo of a drawing circa 1870’s I think, up from the recent auction of some of Mark Rucker early photos. There are over 40 drawings, mostly of players, depicting some sort of baseball action, or inflicting some pain on the poor injured player.
Aptly entitled The Close of Ball Season, the photograph is by A B Gardner of Utica, and the drawing is by C S Sayler also of Utica. There are no gloves, no mask and an underhand pitcher shown. I believe Gardner was active around 1873 but merged with another photographer and moved in the early 80’s.
A few of my favorites include the ball crashing through a window, a group of players giving him a headache by beating a drum and hammering him, and the depiction of an artist and photographer.
If anyone can provide any information on the photo, photographer or artist I would appreciate hearing it.
Sorry upside down.

[baseball tourist]

Visited my monthly flea-market/antique show today and picked up a few cool things.

- a 1960’s era Saskatoon Hilltops football pennant
- a vintage Bellingham WA football player photo with mount stand (love the three point stance)
- a 1957 copy of Horse Sense with Dodgers and Yankee gambling stories and photos including Mantle, Robinson etc.
-and old football
-two WWII print Editons of Time, one with Mel Ott and one with Don Blanchard in the cover
- 3 cool Draper & Maynard scorecards.

[JoeDfan]

Picked up this really neat Louisville Slugger advertising Spline bats! I have never seen any "real" information on these, and was always told they were only made available to Major League teams to try out.
Two of the pages were signed by H&B guys, so that is pretty cool too!

[kdixon]

Picked this Homecoming program up .

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by mcgwirecom

Snagged these in the Huggins & Scott Auction. happy to add to my ballpark seat collection.

Nice Shibe seats, Randall!

[eastonfalcon19]

Originally Posted by mcgwirecom

Snagged these in the Huggins & Scott Auction. happy to add to my ballpark seat collection.

Love the seats and at good price.