[dougscats]

I'm revising this thread to make it a a celebration of the history of Brooklyn baseball,
and to invite all fans to show their Brooklyn stuff.

This thread was originally aimed for me to contact, communicate and trade with fellow Brooklyn Dodgers collectors, with the ultimate idea, possibly, of divesting my collection on N54. And the first few replies below reflect that.
I'm in good health by the way, so please don't get the wrong idea, thanks; I'm not selling now.

But now I want this thread to be more, not about me, but to be about Brooklyn baseball.
So I'll start to do that by showing some of the highlights of my collection [1865-1957], not the best, but a labor of love.

Still, there's a ton of stuff that I don't have and that I'd love to see,
so I'd ask the rest of you out there who would like to, to share your Brooklyn stuff. Show, and Tell if you'd like. I know some of the history, but I'd surely like to see and hear more.

I'm going to cut out the trading part of the original post, so I'm deleting most of the scans I first posted.
But I'll leave up a couple of Brooklyn legends to start it off, two of Uncle Robbie's "Daffiness Boys": Babe Herman and Dazzy Vance.
Herman in particular is one of baseball's all-time characters, and I'd invite fans to show cards of him and perhaps share a vignette or two.

Here's one as I remember it:
A reporter interviewing Babe, whose fielding was notorious, asks him if it's true that he had been hit in the head by a fly ball. Babe vehemently denies it. The reporter then asks, Well, how about the shoulders? To which Babe replies, Oh no! No, no. The shoulders don't count.

He hit .393 one year.

I guess he was a DH ahead of his time.

Scroll down to see more:
The Brooklyn Bridegrooms of 1890, and
The Brooklyn Atlantics of 1865!--Thanks to Doug Goodman who was good enough to provide a scan.
And there will be more!--Show us your Brooklyn Dodgers!