Your oddest memorabilia
 

Hi

Over the last several years on this forum I have seen some amazing and some amazing odd, different, unique, memorabilia.

What is your Single most unique memorabilia you feel is in your collection.

This is mine it is a 1913 LOUIS V ARONSON RONSON BABE RUTH Honus Wagner BASEBALL PLAYER Striker LIGHTER. Some how people think it is Ruth from 1913 but ( I doubt it) but I love the look and patina of it

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Great piece! It’s neither Ruth nor Wagner, but is a terrific and pretty rare figural piece from the dead ball era. Nice to see that yours has the original striker. Of the few that have surfaced, only about half seem to have that piece in tact.

Cool post… eager to see more rare and oddball stuff!

My pics would likely post sideways too. So here’s a brief video clip of one of my favorite oddballs. It’s an early Baseball Whistler Statue that still (barely) works!

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Here’s an early to mid 1920’s sweater with the first inception of the Pitt State Kansas Gorillas mascot. Looks more like Sasquatch🤣.

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This mailer was intended to be hung on doorknobs of newsstands to solicit sales of a newspaper special on the fight. Someone saved this circular all these years...

Honorable mention:

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From the same fight. This is an entirely illegal betting slip. There was no State of New York Betting Commissioners. Great art for a bookie's device. I've been collecting others too, from other sports and other fights. Here are a pair of 1959 betting slips for football and basketball:

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I have the signed construction contract and sub-contractor payment checks for the house that Phillies Whiz Kid Granny Hamner and his wife had built in 1958 in Richmond, Va.

1915 brass watch fob commemorating Jess Willard's dethroning of Jack Johnson for the world heavyweight championship. Shaped like a boxing glove, the 2-inch design has Willard's name and likeness flanked by two American flags on the front, while the inscription on the reverse reads: "Redeemer of the White Race, April 5, 1915, Havana, Cuba."

The envelope I've owned for roughly ten years. After the Yoohoo envelope being a fantasy piece, I wonder if this is too. But it's still a cool piece to look at. The question no one has been able to answer is "why does the picture shoolw a ball with American League on it, but it's stamped before AL was founded?"

The telegram I think is really awesome! I bought the ball because the telegram was provenance. How many times do you hear about people that actually win these WS and AS ticket giveaways? Never! so the telegram is just a cool piece of "small" history.
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I managed to pick this Heilbroner Baseball Bureau information card of Frank Shanty Hogan a few years ago.

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It's a bat I have owned this since the death of my former business partner and I suspect it will stay with me forever. I tried to market it for significant money so the family could benefit, but couldn't find anyone who was interested...so I bought it for my personal collection. Here's the story.

In the mid 1980s I owned a ball card shop. The guy who was the batboy the night of the Edmead incident brought in the bat to my partner...my partner always genuinely loved local baseball. The batboy (who we knew, of course, he was a local fixture) sold it to him as much as anything to pass it on to someone who would appreciate it.

The "Edmead incident" took place on August 22, in a home game at Salem's Municipal Field against Rocky Mount. Edmead scored the Pirates first run after swiping both second and third base to give him 61 steals for the season. Everything seemed fine, but an otherwise routine pop fly to short right in the top of the sixth changed everything.

Alfredo Edmead, raced in for the ball from right, while Cruz ran out from his second base position. Edmead dove in an effort to make the catch, but his head collided with Pablo Cruz' knee, and both men went down in a heap. Edmead had been knocked unconscious, and some of the first players on the scene reported that he wasn't breathing. The team trainer was able to revive him, but Edmead was rushed to Lewis-Gale hospital.

The game resumed, minus Cruz, who'd hurt his knee badly, but was too upset about Edmead to accept treatment. "My God. My brother, my little brother," Cruz lamented later that day. "He always tried so hard. I didn't see him."

Though the players on both teams weren't told until the game was finished, Salem's general manager called from the hospital just an hour after the impact with three sad words: "Alfredo is dead".

Edmead died from massive brain injuries, shocking his teammates, and nearly everyone who heard the news. "I never heard of anything like this before," said Pirates farm director Harding Peterson. "We lost not only one of the best young prospects in our organization. We lost a fine young gentleman. It's truly hard to believe."

This is the bat he used that night. It's a pretty macabre thing to own.

The local baseball hall of fame thinks they have the bat he used that night, but it's not...I'm pretty sure it's another of his bats, but how do you prove provenance in a case like this? For that matter, what's the point?

Love these items. All unique in their own way and I look forward to seeing more

Not super rare but clearly one of the more "odd" sports collectible that I own.

Always enjoy seeing oddball pieces, great stuff keep them coming. Couple items that fit the category. 1st an auto from Ty Cobb`s father who was famously shot and killed by Ty`s mother only about one week into Cobb`s career with the Tigers. 2`nd, antique leather suitcase with what appears to be a hand painted advertisement for the 1927 Ruth movie "Babe Comes Home".
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...10079778_c.jpgWilliam Herschell Cobb Autograph by Hugh Murphy, on Flickr
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A bit newer vintage than y'all, but worth a share for its sheer strangeness. A decorative porcelain plate featuring Oakland A's legend Todd Burns. :D

Great bat, he was a special talent gone far too soon.

1860 Ambro
 

Ambrotype from 1860. I have owned it 2x and don't plan on selling it again for a long time.

Amazing stuff everyone

Leon your items are always truly unique and in many ways historic

While it's certainly not the most expensive or rarest item, here's an oddball advertizing piece that I picked up about a year ago.

Turn the wheel to a year and it tells you who won the World Series, Rosebowl etc for that year.

Cost is never the purpose
This is a Great Oddity

Thanks for sharing