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[jefferyepayne]

Great pickups, Larry and Scott!

Those '68s are killers, Scott, and I really like that YA Tittle, Larry. Sounds like you are making great progress on the small/large '52s.

jeff

[S_GERACE]

Hi Larry,
Great pick-ups. The Bowman cards from 1950-1952 are some of the most beautiful cards ever made (football, baseball & non-sports)! I love the detail, down to the vent holes on Badaczewski's helmet!

How many cards are you short of each the large and small?

Scott

[LuckyLarry]

Scott I need 55 cards to finish the large set and 57 cards to finish the small set. So I'm about 60% complete for the 144 in each set.
Larry

[S_GERACE]

Sweet...good luck Larry. I fell like the small is still an under-appreciated set!

More local history. Happy to pick up this 1949 Morgan Middle School Tigers football team photo (Ellensburg, WA). Found it at a garage sale in a stack of local family photos, $2

I only recognize one of the players, Freddie Watterson, who was a batboy for the Ellensburg Cowboys semi-pro baseball team in the late 40's/early 50's (lower right). Probably lots of local names, plenty of research to do this week. I hope some of them are still near town.

[brafcauknid]

Mail day! Also, may I just comment on how much I hate photobucket.

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[LuckyLarry]

Originally Posted by brafcauknid

Mail day! Also, may I just comment on how much I hate photobucket.

Photobucket gives me trouble too sometimes. Esp when I'm trying to edit my uploads to a more reasonable size. But it's free.......
Oh and I see that 1972 Topps HI number Floyd Little This morning I spent some "quality eBay time" and picked up three 1972 HI numbers I need. They are SO tough!
Larry

[S_GERACE]

Larry,
I see you've knocked down another '52 Bowman large and a RC/SP to boot (Matson). Awesome!
Scott

Been a busy week for local sports history. Bought this collection of high school and college sports ephemera on a whim, not realizing how HUGE the collection was.

It seems to be the meticulous scrapbooking of a single CWU student named Marguerite Carpenter. A sports nut there are hundreds of newspaper articles on football, mens and womens basketball, baseball, and track events from Central Washington University and Yakima High School 1924-32. These articles were cut from the Student newspaper, which is nearly impossible to find (maybe 10 in CWU archives from 1924-31 to compare them).

Some of the more interesting items were the wood bound Yakima High School football scrapbook (this item seems to be ca. 1950?), and Yakima HS Letter with a 1934 tie tack attached. The womens basketball team is from 1932, coached by Miss Carpenter (pictured). A ca. 1930 WSNS pennant, the earliest in my collection now. Football, basketball, and baseball complete rosters with scores in the sports and activities pages of this scrapbook, just a great resource..... unfortunately no football programs.

Way too much to list, but an awesome addition to the local sports history collection. Probably a small amount of organizing then off to the Kittitas County Museum for these pieces, thank you bruinsfan....

[LuckyLarry]

Originally Posted by S_GERACE

Larry,
I see you've knocked down another '52 Bowman large and a RC/SP to boot (Matson). Awesome!
Scott

Not me Scott as #127 Ollie Matson remains on my wantlist...
Larry

[rjackson44]

Paid one dollar today at garage sale😀😀

[Laxcat]

I went on a Staubach spree.

[DBesse27]

Those Sammys are bitchin'!!