What is your favorite pickup(s) in 2021?

roarfrom34 · #1 12-26-2021, 06:00 PM

may have been this Eddie Murray game used batting helmet from 1987:

thetahat · #2 12-26-2021, 06:32 PM

This. Had never seen this before.

71buc · #3 12-27-2021, 12:36 AM

This is always my favorite thread. There are so many amazing pieces in Net54 collections. I enjoyed a surreal 2021. It seemed items I had searched for many years all became available in a short period of time.

I also loaned about 20 pieces to the Clemente museum which are now on display. I met Manny Sanguillen and spent an evening being entertained by his stories of his days partying with Roberto Duran in Panama. Steve Blass hugged me and thanked me for helping out at the museum. I drank wine with Pete Alonso late into the night. I hate the Mets but now love Pete Alonso. He is a total class act. This past September the Washington Nationals visited the museum after a game. Juan Soto asked me if he could swing a Clemente bat. I opened a display case and handed him one. It was so cool watching him swing the bat with a huge grin on his face. Last week I was invited to help set up a Clemente display for the Mets celebration of Clemente Day on Sept 15th, 2022 at Citi Field. My collection took me through the looking glass in 2021. I still shake my head in disbelief of my good fortune. I have truly been blessed.

Here are my favorite 2021 my pickups: a rare Clemente Memorial bust, a full 1971 Game 7 ticket, a stub to Clemente's 3000th hit, a Clemente bat, and a beautifully autographed Clemente photo, and the only example of a Steve Blass Day pennant (Thanks again Rob) I have ever seen.

Bugsy · #4 12-27-2021, 09:03 AM

1. Elmer Miller game used bat.

2. This is a program from 1956 when Jackie Robinson and the rest of the Dodgers played an exhibition game in St. Paul.

3. 1994 Paul Molitor Blue Jays game used jersey

ooo-ribay · #5 12-27-2021, 01:06 PM

Chris and Mike had much better years than I.

Congrats, fellas!

Dewey · #6 12-27-2021, 02:17 PM

My two favorites would be a Jackie related photo and press pass that serve as a nice bookend.

My first ever photo back in 2016 was Jackie signing with Montreal in 1945. I then added a pic of Branch Rickey signing with the Dodgers in 1942. What I wanted to complete the set was a photo of Jackie signing with the Dodgers in 1945 alongside Branch Rickey. This year I got it. The image is blurry as heck in the PSA slab. Thinking of liberating it. But it is sharp and a beauty. PSA calls it a Type II, RMY gave a Vintage 1 window for it. It don't care either way!

Then my first World Series press pass--a sweaty 1956 pass covering Jackie's last official game.

Honorable mention to Kershaw's first win ticket.

daves_resale_shop · #7 12-27-2021, 02:30 PM

Sold a baseball card to fulfill my child hood dream of owning a jeep... its been a great second vehicle, and been a blast to take to the ice cream shop and beach with my kids...

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