Early Auto Racing
 

1920's Brass Figural Baseball Bookend

I posted this recent acquisition on the pinback thread but also wanted to post here in the proper thread . This was picked up in a cash/trade deal with fellow Net54 member Mike H. Thanks again Mike. Adam

Great bookend, Adam. Don't you think that's Ty Cobb? There's another one out there somewhere!

Great Pictures!! I love old racing stuff!!

Thanks John. Probably not Cobb, the batting stance may have been influenced by the Cobb style. Yes, there is another out there and even though it is just one bookend, I appreciate it for it's wonderful detail of an early baseball figure. If I never own it as a pair, I'm okay with that. In fact, just discovered that fellow Net54 member Max W. posted a single bookend a few months back.

Wonderful stuff as usual, gentlemen. I picked up this nice-looking 1949 Topps Changemaker cardstock sign at the antique show today.

http://s915.photobucket.com/albums/a...igns/005-1.jpg

Two vintage pitcher pinback pickups
 

This is actually a duplicate post, but I thought it also should be added to the Pinback Bonanza thread as well.

It seems like as 2012 is unwinding, some of my favorite pickups have come from other net54 members.

Pinback expert Al offered me this scarce 1948 Bob Feller "How to Pitch" pinback that was undoubtedly given out as a promotion during the launch of his book by the same title. Love that vintage Feller oddball stuff!

Jason offered up this 1930's Grover Cleveland Alexander leader pin commemorating his record 16 shutouts in one ML season. That's a record that surely will never be broken. Yikes!

Many thanks to both of you guys! I love both of these pins and they have found a good home. :D

pick ups
 

Scott,
Your very welcome. I would date the pin to 1948 when the book was released. Enjoy it.

Thanks for the info Al. Duly noted, and I'll change the description in the post above!

Old Browns Pennant
 

Always a fun thread....I'm not a Pennant collector nor a Browns fan but when I saw it I just loved the art deco look of the font and the lines and the bats and ball on the left side. I figured, how many Browns fans, from the few they even drew, had the money during a depression to buy this pennant? I figured not too many. It also drove me to purchase Mike E's pennant book. The seller stated 1930's, his book says 1940's. Either way - I just love it.

Yeah that's a good one....like you say art deco...and good think thru on the depression vs cost

A Good Day at the Market
 

Kansas City A's 57 and 63 programs; A's cocktail napkin(1st I've seen); A's
dry cleaners paper band series of 20 w/Schedule and Joe Nuxhall pictured(have never seen these, either); Men of America pamphlet w/ Bobby Jones on front and Rogers Hornsby on reverse; 1970 Fleer Backslapper New Insults unopened pack; 1929 U. of Missouri vs Nebraska Homecoming program at Columbia; 1920's MU pennant; 1920? Olsen's Baseball Card Game with Cobb and Ruth card ad; 1955 Golden Stamp book Cleveland Indians/w all stamps; Also, not pictured are a grouping of 1944-66 exhibits (Commons), a Yankees megaphone, and a group of 19 authentic arrowheads. I love these days!

Bowling
 

Decided to stop by the local indoor flea market today and found this.

Paul "Daffy" Dean photo ( 5.25" x 3.25" )


Jantz

Jantz,
Very nice! It sure looks like Florida spring training to me......

Hope I am not being redundant since I posted this under it's own subject a few weeks back.

Here is a 209 Yankee Stadium Model I acquired from Model-Builder Steve Wolf.

To see more pictures and read the story behind this amazing model, please see this story:

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http://sportscollectingnews.com/excl15.htm

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Early Base Ball broadside that I need to get framed along with the other one I picked up earlier this month. Yesterday at a local antique mall my girlfriend spotted the oldest dumbbells I've ever seen. I absolutely love them:D. Each is 5lbs. Last is a Jayhawk Creamery bottle from Lawrence Kansas. It will be on ebay soon unless a board member is interested.

Speaker Autograph
 

Many thanks to board member oldtix for this one!!!

Happy to finally have a Tris in my collection!

c1922 Harvard Football Cigar Box - Tobbaco, Sculpture, Football Come Together
 

Interesting book pickup!
 

I just picked up a very unusual book entitled "Twelve Perfect Innings- A Pretty Good Game" by Weldon Myers. It was published in 1961 and features an 85 page inning by inning account written in poetry of Harvey Haddix's near perfect game in 1959.

I collect books on no-hitters and perfect games, but I have never come across this one before. It really is a beautifully written poem by a former English teacher and Creative Writing professor at Converse College. He also was a college baseball player and huge baseball fan.

I assume that this book is rare, but can any of the book experts out there chime in on what they know about it?

Thanks! ;)

PS- I also threw in a picture of my ticket to the greatest pitched game ever in the history of baseball.

Michael, That's incredible! I had to make a pot of coffee for the read.

Eagles pickup
 

Just picked up this 1967 Phila Eagles Hand Puppet made by the Gund company. In my 12 or so years of Eagles collecting, this is the first of these I've encountered. Admittedly, its a pretty unattractive piece, but it doesn't have to be pretty for me to collect it, just has to be Eagles related.
http://i395.photobucket.com/albums/p...GundPuppet.jpg

1940 Walter Johnson for Congress Pinback
 

I just picked up a nice 1" Walter Johnson for Congress pinback off of eBay.
The WaJo photo image is one that that I saved from a recent auction. I don't own this one...

Picked this up. Anyone know the year of this pennant?

http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/bio/_/...walter-johnson
Post-playing career
His wife Hazel died on August 1, 1930. Her death left a gaping hole in Johnson's life which he attempted to fill.

In 1929, Johnson returned to the Senators as manager. In his first season he went 71-81, but, in his next three years, his teams averaged 93 wins. The squad never won a pennant under Johnson, though.

In 1933, he was hired by the Cleveland Indians, where he went 179-168 in three seasons. His kind demeanor and inability to understand how his pitchers couldn't work themselves out of jams helped lead to his undoing as a manger.

He served as a Senators broadcaster in 1939.

After his managing career ended, Johnson won a seat as Montgomery County Commissioner in Maryland. In 1940, he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Congress.
On December 10, 1946, Johnson died from a brain tumor at the age of 59.

[QUOTE=CarltonHendricks;971114]http://espn.go.com/mlb/player/bio/_/...walter-johnson
[I]Post-playing career
His wife Hazel died on August 1, 1930. Her death left a gaping hole in Johnson's life which he attempted to fill.

In 1929, Johnson returned to the Senators as manager. In his first season he went 71-81, but, in his next three years, his teams averaged 93 wins. The squad never won a pennant under Johnson, though.

In 1933, he was hired by the Cleveland Indians, where he went 179-168 in three seasons. His kind demeanor and inability to understand how his pitchers couldn't work themselves out of jams helped lead to his undoing as a manger.

He served as a Senators broadcaster in 1939.

After his managing career ended, Johnson won a seat as Montgomery County Commissioner in Maryland. In 1940, he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Congress.



Thanks for supplying the Walter Johnson post career bio, Carlton!

I actually was aware of these facts as I read net54's own Hank Thomas' great biography entitled "Walter Johnson-Baseball's Big Train". For those of you that would love to learn more about Walter Johnson's great career, I would highly recommend that you read Hank's book. It's spectacular!!

Guess 1936
 

pennant question
 

Jeff, I believe your pennant is a 1936-38 BF3 premium. You will find them listed in the Standard Catalog as type 12 BF3S.

That's not a BF3 (IMO)...isn't that a 27" pennant (see the tac head impressions)? It's 1930s in design. Jeff, you have one HELL of a pennant there. I've never seen another.

It is a BF3 premium. Red Ball issued full-sized pennants for the 16 MLB teams, but not for player pennants.

Here is the BF3 mini pennant that would have been given away with the gum.

Interesting stuff Chris. I'm not familiar with them. Are they rare?

bf3 premiums
 

Red Ball sales co in 1936 put out a set of 16 mini pennants now cataloged as bf3s. Apparently they came with gum because for 15 cents and 25 gum wrappers you could send in and get one of the 16 in a 28 inch premium size.
Below is a counter top diplay of the 16 plus the Red Ball offer. I have also included pictures of 12 of the 16 premium sized pennants. They are quite rare and sell in the one to three hundred dollar range.

It is a 27" pennant. I didn't know they made this size BF3s.

the stuff that is on the last few pages of this thread makes net 54 worth it.
Informative and neat.

pennant size
 

I own two of the premiums. They are actually 27-28 inches and with the tassels I guess they called them a 30 inch pennant.

1927 Little World Series
 

Received this 1927 Little World Series game ball between the Toledo Mudhens and the Buffalo Bisons. Toledo was managed by Casey Stengel, whom won 5 games to 1.

Dan,
Neat ball! Have you nailed down what the 1927 "New Park" notation might refer to? Which team between the Bisons and the Mud Hens had a new stadium in 1927? Just curious.....

Thanks Scott. I haven't had much time to do more research, and haven't pursued the "new park" avenue yet. There are some noteables that played for these teams, it seems like Toledo was the place to go after one's MLB career. Some players include Irish Meusel, Bobby Veach, Jeff Pfeffer, Bullet Joe Bush, Jesse Barnes.

Very cool! I'd love to hear what your research reveals.

Is the Jeff Pfeffer that you are referring to "Big Jeff" (Francis Xavier), or "Little Jeff", who was "Big Jeff's" big brother? Confused? No kidding!
Of the players that you mentioned, Bullett Joe, Jess Barnes and Francis Xavier "Big Jeff" (If that's the correct Jeff) all threw ML no-hit games.

BTW, The Toledo Mud Hens were the home of many important players in baseball history. Not in 1927, but HOF Addie Joss played for the Mud Hens. He also lived in Toledo in the off season and was a sports writer for the Toledo Blade before he died tragically at 31 of tubercular meningitis.

HOF'er Kirby Puckett once played for the Mud Hens en route to the bigs.

Keep me posted...

Also Roger Bresnahan, i think maybe Jim Thorpe too!

That is correct!