Major collection of Northwest baseball material stolen today in Seattle WA (Dec 18th)

[Vintagecatcher]

Good Karma!


Patrick

[slidekellyslide]

Great news!!!

[Wite3]

Glad he was caught...glad the stuff was recovered.

Joshua

[jcmtiger]

YES!!! That was fast. Great News.

Joe

[williamcohon]

WooHoo - great news!!!

Bill

[ksfarmboy]

That's awesome! Great news!

[Leon]

I couldn't be happier about this. The victim is such a nice guy he PM'd me yesterday and thanked me for the little bit of help. I have cheerfully un-stuck this thread now. I try to save sticky threads for issues like this as they get more attention than if we have 5 sticky's up there all of the time.

[ALR-bishop]

Since they were going to his house to arrest him based on fingerprints and surveillance footage from the scene, I wonder why they did not have a search warrant in hand when they arrived.

[dlfallen]

Fantastic news! I'm as happy as a clam at high tide!

[grainsley]

At that point they likely didn't have enough grounds to believe the property was in there, it could well have been in a storage locker, or elsewhere, but they certainly had grounds to arrest/interrogate the perp based on prints/video. Observation of the property during the course of the arrest gave them all the grounds they needed to obtain a warrant for the house. (I'm assuming U.S. criminal law is similar to Canadian). Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.

[seattlerainiers]

As reported earlier in the thread and via media here in Seattle, it appears there will be a very fortunate and favorable resolution to this theft. At this point, it looks like most everything has been recovered, except for a 1908 Vancouver/Spokane NWL championship inscribed trophy ball.

Thanks VERY MUCH for all of the support, concern and efforts, both public and private from all of my friends in the hobby, both within and outside of Net54. I'd specifically like to give major thanks to my good friends Mark M, Andrew J and Conor D for springing into action shortly after they learned of the theft. Great fellows and friends one and all. And thank you again Leon, for the "stickiness"...super glad it wasn't sticky for long.

I'll thank a lot of you personally as well, and if I miss anyone, please know that I greatly appreciate your friendship and hobby kinship. Tis the season indeed!

Special thanks will also go out to SPD and their CSI unit, and a number of my good friends with the Mariners who also sprung into action, and care deeply about our regional baseball history, and what it represents.

Happy holidays to all, accompanied by large dose of my heartfelt gratitude.

Dave

[atx840]

Great News! Always a treat to see these displays when I visit.

Dave what are the yellow and red cards in the Vancouver displays?

[seattlerainiers]

Chris:

Those "cards" are blown up Vancouver Obak reproductions (Ed Erickson, left and Bob Brown, right).

Ed Erickson was the pitcher in the 1908 NWL championship game that is represented by the game-ball you can see underneath the Erickson "Obak".

This is the ball that is still missing from the theft.

[conor912]

My pleasure, Dave. Any chance I get to help a friend with the added bonus of helping the hobby (and put bad guys in jail), it's a no-brainer. I'm really happy for you. I'm also thinking this will be a great story to add to the pieces. They are now part of the lore of the Great Safeco Heist of '14!!