Nolan Ryan
 

Hi Scott:
Thanks for sharing these great Nolan Ryan items. Would love to see your collection one day. Phil

As always Scott,great stuff!!

April 1962 Sandy Koufax 18 K game @ Wrigley
 

Just picked up this great original Sandy Koufax color slide from Henry Yee ebay auctions. His quality of original photos and negatives always amazes me. Taken in April 1962 from Sandy's 18 K game 2nd time in career tying major league record.:)

Awesome slide, Phil! It doesn't hurt that the photo was shot at historic (and 100 year old as of last Wednesday) Wrigley Field- The Friendly Confines.

Congrats on your pickup!

And shot by a well-known photographer, Lee Balterman, who did some work for Sports Illustrated but is probably better known for his non-sports photography. Nice pick-up!

1962 Sandy Koufax negative from 18K game at Wrigley
 

Hello Scott and Lance:
Thanks very much for your post, and always excellent information!
Phil

Owner of one of the most memorable mugs in baseball history Rabbit Maranville. Here at 42 in this 9.2.1933 press photo.

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A full page Willie Keeler from Police Gazette. I haven't been able to research the date, but it's between 1903 & 1909.

Doug

Very nice, Doug!

Great pickup Doug! Fits your collection nicely.

Frank Bancroft
 

According to the description, this is supposed to be Frank Bancroft and another player from the 1914 tour of American and National League Stars that Bancroft put together. The guy on the right (as you look at it) could be Bancroft, from other images I've seen, but can anyone identify the other guy in the photo (crouching)?

Probably going to need an enlargement / closer cropping of crouching man's face, as it's just about impossible to make out any detail at the automatically-resized resolution the system displays your photo at. Cropping it to just his face should reduce the file size considerably, so that the Net54 system doesn't compress it so much for the attachment.

That's what I was afraid would happen, this is the auction photo I downloaded. I will do a better scan when it arrives, I am just curious to find out what I bought. Always exciting to see if my purchase turns out to be "as-described." Description was:

"Original photo from 1914 showing two famous Baseball players (both of whome could easily be in the Baseball Hall of Fame someday) posed in front of the enrance to the San Xavier Mission in Arizona while on a Baseball Trip of the West. To the right is Frank Bancroft and his wife and to the left is another superstar player and his wife.

I am listing over 100 photos tonight of rare Western U.S. scenes. These were taken by a famous Baseball player and his wife while they were on a tour of the Western States and many of the people in the images are famous Baseball Stars!"

I have no reason to doubt the guy, it is San Xavier Mission in AZ., and the guy on the right does look like Frank Bancroft. I just asked the seller who was the famous baseball player that took the photo, and who was the other guy in the photo, and he never responded. Thanks for looking, I will add better scans when it arrives.

Some new stuff...
 

Here's a few items I picked up recently:

• 1929 Henry "Hank" O'Day Association of Professional Base Ball Players of America Membership Card

• 1956 Jim Thorpe Gunther Beer Advertising Display

• C. 1960's Cleveland Indians Pinback with Catcher's Mitt

• 1973 Roberto Clemente One Ounce .999 Fine Silver Art Bar

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Picked this up with an old Dodgers collection.
I'd date it early-mid 1960's based on the stationary.

Nice Koufax sig and you are correct on the era. Based on exemplars it's circa 1963.

Thanks Scott. 1963 was a good year, i'll take that!

Koufax Autograph
 

Hello Drift:
The Sandy Koufax autograph is from 1966 or 1967. Great item!
Phil