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Posted By: <b>John V</b><p>Jodi, <br>On the Robert Adams Jr thread you mentioned bricks from George Gibson's barn. Tell us more. <br>I have a couple bricks from the left field wall of Forbes Field (acquired by myself during demolition one late night years ago), so bricks caught my attention. <br>Any other bricks out there? <br>John<br>
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Posted By: <b>Rob D.</b><p>I also thought Jodi's mention was interesting and would enjoy hearing details.<br><br>The only brick I have is from League Park in Cleveland. What I really like about it is that it has a "C" on the face of it. I'll try to take a photo later and post it.<br><br><br><br><b>Best double-play combo ever?</b> <i>E-mail for scans</i> and <i>Bump for price reduction</i>
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Posted By: <b>Dan Bretta</b><p>I was in Chicago when they were tearing down Comiskey and we drove out (at night) to take a look...I wanted to get out and snag a brick...they had a big huge pile of them with white paint on them, but my buddy said no way, too dangerous of an area.
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Posted By: <b>Rhys</b><p>This is funny because it reminds me of my Baseball "Brick" story. I was able to visit and walk through Harry Stoveys house in New Bedford Massachusetts a few years ago. The owner was a very nice Hispanic couple and let me go all over including in the attic and down in the basebment and even fed me a tamale. The house is falling into disrepair and the chimney was breaking apart so I offered $20 for a box full of bricks and an old porch post that was down in the basement and a few other things. I have had about 3-4 bricks in my garage thinking that a few close friends in SABR and on this forum would want one and I had NO takers. Everyone I offered them to for free told me that they were not interested. For a while I thought I was weirder than everyone else. It is a good thing I still think they are cool. It was really fun to able to walk through his house but I wish I could have done it in the 1920's and asked for a few hundred autographs!<br><br>Rhys
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Posted By: <b>John V</b><p>Rhys,<br>Clean up the brick and slap a felt sheet on the bottom, to protect furniture or whatever it would sit on. You may want to mount a little brass plate with the Harry Stovey particulars. I did this with my Forbes Field brick. It makes a great display item.
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Posted By: <b>Andrew S.</b><p>I don't know about sports related bricks, but I do know someone that has a brick from George Washington's original birthplace home (Wakefield). It burned down over 200 years ago. One of their relatives picked it up during excavations there in the 1930s.
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Posted By: <b>Greg Theberge</b><p>Rhys, you're not wierd at all.<br><br>Compared to the guy that paid five hundred bucks for this:<br><a href="http://www.lelands.com/searchlist.aspx?auction=all&type=Both&keyw ord=fenway%20toilet" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://www.lelands.com/searchlist.aspx?auction=all&type=Both&keyw ord=fenway%20toilet</a><br><br>Now just exactly what the heck do you do with that thing anyway? <br><br>(although a section of the old trough at Fenway would be cool)<br><br>Greg
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Posted By: <b>Jodi Birkholm</b><p>I thought it was against the law to sell a used toilet or urinal! <img src="/images/happy.gif" height="14" width="14" alt="happy.gif">
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Posted By: <b>John V</b><p>I posted this nearby, so I thought I would show it here as well. John<br><br><img src="http://i418.photobucket.com/albums/pp262/457FT/Brick.jpg" alt="[linked image]"><br>
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Posted By: <b>William</b><p>John, was your brick part of a larger slab or section that you broke up by hand? That's an incredibly clean looking brick! Must not have been anywhere near the path of the wrecking ball.
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Posted By: <b>Anonymous</b><p>As I recall a portion was in the process of being demolished. We entered through the outfield somewhere and had pretty much the entire outfield wall for the taking. There were 3 or 4 of us. We boosted one guy up the wall and there he sat, thumping and beating on the wall "cap" (a ceramic-concrete-like-lid) that covered the top of the wall. Once that came loose, then we removed about 20 bricks, and loaded up the car. I kept the cap too<br><br>I chipped off the mortar and cleaned up the brick as you can see, turning it in to a "trophy".<br><br>
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