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!