November Pickups
 

Picked up a monster Babe Ruth bat this morning. I always wanted one of these to display in my collection.

A few recent pickups:

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Matty
 

1915 Baseball Magazine Premium insert; not available through the mail like the others.
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Jim --

That insert is stunning -- love the color!

Greg

Went to the auction of a Nebraska football "booster of substance" today. Game used jerseys and team signed footballs! (Lawrence Phillips including his locker room placard from the 1995 National Title game, Broderick Thomas, Johnny Mitchell, and Steve Taylor shown) got a couple of other jerseys and lots of signed stuff too.

Negro League HOF'ers in Los Angeles
 

A scorecard for a February 20, 1927 California Winter League contest at the integrated ball grounds of White Sox Park in Los Angeles in which the Philadelphia Royal Giants, an African American team with six Negro League Hall of Famers -- Turkey Stearnes, Bullet Rogan, Willie Wells, Andy Cooper, Biz Mackey, Bill Foster -- beat Hall of Famer Kiki Cuyler and his Shell Oil team by a score of 3-1. See the website below for more Negro League material.

I got this billhead in the mail Friday from a very nice Net54 member who sent it out of the blue to me. (Thanks Dave!) It goes well with the other Lawlor's stuff I've been collecting over the years.

Nice haul Dan. Used to root for Nebraska during Osborne's years. Glad he got himself a couple if championships.

Thanks, Clint!

Smokey Joe Woods by Conlon, I have a real liking for Conlon's Portraits.

Nice job, Bob! That Smoky Joe's a real winner.

I saw the bidding frenzy on this gem. Congrats!!

Absolutely a stunning photo of Smoky Joe. Graig needs to paint this one! :cool:
Great pickup!

November pickups
 

Seldom seen Johnny Vander Meer 1940 Diamond Dust uncatalogued punchcard.
According to net54's own, seller Keith Javic:

"Here is some information on this set: These colorful ribbed paper cards were the consolation prize from a punchboard, a popular gambling device of the Depression era. For 5 cents the customer would choose one of 624 holes and punch it out sometimes receiving these paper cards. The Diamond Dust cards are sometimes poorly cut and are roughly 1" by 1.75" in size. Backs have 2-5 printed numbers in red and black. It is said 15 of the players were $1 winners and likely made in shorter numbers. Any card redeemed would have been likely destroyed. To date there are 33 different players known"

Oh, I love those! I have a Joe D. and a few other players whose names I can't remember right now.
Cool pickup!

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1991 Wally Joyner All Star bat
1990 Roberto Alomar game used bat. He ordered 12 of these on 11/20/90 and he used it when he arrived in Toronto, which explains the blue AL ink transfers.

"Wally World".....that's why maybe we should not be so fast to induct Trout into the HOF.....even though I do think he'll get there.

19th century East Hampton team cabinet
 

Picked this up recently out in PA. This is a smaller photo measuring 4 3/4 x 5 3/4, but I liked the contrast and subject matter. I really wish that 'back in the day', someone had written more info on the back.....it's blank.

Last Night
 

I picked these up in Heritage last night

Wally Joyner All Star
 

Wally Joyner - He was not on the 1991 All Star Team.
Only All Star appearance was 1986.
Jerry Sage

Wags
 

now i have the bookends complete!
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I know, right? Surely there isn't anymore than 1 out there besides mine.

Wow... beautiful items congrats on those two pick ups!

Picked up this Double Header unused ball and box. This is the 1935 style ball.

Wally Joyner All Star
 

This is the only 1986 GU All Star Bat out there.
Jerry Sage

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It's been a while since I've added to my Tigers pin collection. I found this honey on eBay last night:D

http://i139.photobucket.com/albums/q...psjnmtictw.jpg

Negro League ticket...anybody know any history of this team and what year this ticket might be from?

Picked up this Cobb check to his mother in the Heritage auction.

http://i.imgur.com/AaAvUcn.jpg

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Does this qualify as one of the stranger (but very cool) items posted in the pickup thread in a long time?

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Billy Martin's jacket from some of the most famous commercials of all time.

Tom C

Congrats Mike��. Real beauty. I'm glad you won it! I was watching it and thought of placing a bid (I have the Schoolboy Rowe) but decided not to put my hat in the ring at the last minute . Its going into a great Tiger pin-back collection! Adam

Picked up a couple of bats recently, the Miggy shows medium use. The Bench is from 1977 with nice use. The fact that the stampings are light meant I got it for less than half what others would cost.

Picked up this Walter Johnson game top and tokens at a local auction today. Nobody bid against me so I'm fairly certain I'm the only one there that knew what it was and that there were tokens inside the top.

Another holy grail item off the list!
 

Ever since I first saw one of these circa 1939 Johnny Vander Meer Goldsmith glove boxes in Carlton's epic pictorial of The National a few years ago, I've wanted one for my personal collection. The graphics and color really pop...

I finally pulled the trigger in today's Hunt Louisville Slugger Auction.
The box also comes with a very nice AG65 Vander Meer endorsed glove (correct right handed mitt for a lefty hurler) and custom acrylic case for display.

This will look great with my Vander Meer endorsed balls and 1939 Goldsmith catalogue featuring Vandy.
I'm a happy camper today. Another neat item off my holy grail list! :D

Awesome addition Scott! I love the graphics on that box.

Congrats Scott!! That box was destined for your collection. Can't imagine a better place for it to end up.

Scott, fantastic pick up, congrats!

I picked up two small things and missed out on the Pittsburgh Pirates bat fan.

Thanks Mike, Joe & Bob!

Bob. I saw the 5th night game light bulb ticket in the auction. I'm glad you won it!
I really love the look of these die cut tickets from this era.
Here's my ticket from night game #1; Vandy's famous 2nd consecutive no-hitter.

Great pin, Mike!

Ken - I had completely forgotten that Miggy played for, and won a WS with, the Marlins. Does anyone know why "Wilson" is on a SAM Bat?

Dan - love the game. How is it played?

and Scott - yet another great pickup for the #1 Vander Meer collector.

From A Wikipedia page:

Sam Bat is not owned by Wilson. It was founded by Sam Holman in 1997 and was owned independently by him until 2007 when it became owned by four individuals, none of which have any association with Wilson. The confusion probably derives from a distribution deal Sam Bat had with Wilson some time ago, in which Wilson had their logo added to the bat, although Wilson never played any part in the ownership or manufacturing of the product.

I'm not a boxing collector, but saw this and picked it up.

Dan,
Love the WaJo top game & tokens. Not having a second bidder is extra cool!
Congrats. When was this game produced? Just curious...

Thanks, I never knew this!
Ken

1930. RMY had a neat photo of Walter showing his new game off.

http://www.rmyauctions.com/lot-593.aspx

Thanks Scott, here is the other one

Nice Foxx Joey

Scott, the WaJo game was first advertised in late 1929 and was on the market through about 1940.

10 cents at a church sale

Thanks alot mike

Thanks Butch!

Turn of the century(?) Harvard Baseball Association passes or something. Not quite sure. Thought they were neat.

Whoa! Who is pictured? That type of cardboard frame wasn't in use when that photo was taken.

closer look and it is a repro

The Knights only played a 1/2 season in Jersey, their memorabilia can be pretty hard to find. Program from 1973.

1923 Our Boys Magazine Ty Cobb Cover
 

Picked up my first Ty Cobb item - a 1923 Our Boys magazine with Ty Cobb on the cover! This was a sales magazine to encourage youth to sell other magazines from the Curtis Publishing catalog, including Country Gentleman, Ladies Home Journal, and The Saturday Evening Post, to name a few. Looks like Cobb really liked the outfit, given his testimonial (no doubt paid for), and given that he encouraged his own son to sell magazines too!

Picked up a nice early Stan Musial photo by George Dorrill.

For sale soon. 1946 Yankee stadium snapshots. Blown up a bit:)

Circa 1939 Johnny Vander Meer endorsed D & M baseball
 

What can I say? November has been a terrific month for pickups... :cool:

Vandy circa 1939 D & M endorsed baseball and original box pickup on eBay. I've been searching for one of these guys & it's been pretty elusive...
Finding it with the box was a definite bonus. :)

Here is the original ad from a 1939 Sporting Goods catalogue

Awesome Scott I can't recall ever having such a month myself.

Just arrived from Goldin, 2006 Lastings Milledge Game Used Mets NY Cubans Negro League throwback jersey

At the other end of the spectrum, I've saved a ton of money this month (and the month prior, and the month prior to that). :mad:

Mickey rivers game used bat
 

Just bought this Mickey rivers game used bat from an antique store for $20 can anybody tell me when he ordered this model. any help would be appreciated

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Nice fungo rawlings/Adirondack Fungo. Also a mint copy 1964 Mets stadium dedication day program against Clemente's pirates.

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Picked up this extremely scarce 1911 Philadelphia Athletics champions of the world award from the Astor hotel on Dec.12,1911. only about four known.

Wow Kevin, where did you find that?

That is a truly amazing pickup Kevin -- we need to hear more!


Greg

There was a man cleaning out storage unit and found it in the back.I found the Mickey rivers bat and the Met piece on the same page in the November pickups at an antique store.the woman said one of the dealers had the elephant on ebay and I was able to get him to pull it down and made him an offer and got it from him. I couldn't believe it. It's fantastic.

That elephant is very cool!!! Although it would probably be a cardinal sin, I'd be tempted to strip that paint.

The elephant is absolutely amazing! And I would not do a thing to change it. When you're 104 years old you are not supposed to look new!

The white paint is original to the piece I wouldn't touch it

Restore it
 

I'm a dissenter it would appear, I would have it restored, bet it would look amazing. Now he kind of looks like the Philadelphia Dalmations. Very cool item!

Great pickup, Kevin! :cool:

Thx for all the comments. This kind of stuff is what drives us all as collectors

It's only original once, Paul.

But what if you found a nice lead-based can of white paint from the early 1900's? : ) jk!!!

Kevin that probably is lead paint so you might want to restore it for safety reasons, don't let your dog start licking it.

I actually could see going either way on this type of item, I know some say never touch, which is true will turn off some, others will appreciate a nice restored piece....and the value goes up 3X.

exhibit A

http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=180572