What Baseball Artifact Brings You Back in Time in the Deepest Way?

Lucas00 · #1 05-23-2025, 03:20 PM

I love the 1950s aesthetic. Walking through a store and seeing an advertisement for star cals for example would be the coolest thing to me. Advertising in particular from the 50s is nostalgic to me even never having experienced it.

Similarly the roaring 20s give me the same second hand nostalgia feeling. I love the architecture and flashy lights, monster movies. This snapshot of Wajo from his 1924 scrapbook is the best I can show this.

Another that really interests me is Worlds Fairs. Chicago 1893 in particular, but also New York 1939/1964. For this example I'm showing my 1939 centennial paper logo with the original envelope given out at the 1939 new York world fair by Oppenheim Collins. A womens clothier.

Webster · #2 05-23-2025, 04:55 PM

This:
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Pretty fun night for an 11 year old.

RayW · #3 05-23-2025, 05:47 PM

As a long time Willie Mays fan, the glove used to make �the Catch� at the HOF has special meaning to me. Mays used a Rawlings Harvey Haddix glove, which has HH on the heel.

dbussell12 · #4 05-24-2025, 10:35 PM

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Originally Posted by RayW

As a long time Willie Mays fan, the glove used to make �the Catch� at the HOF has special meaning to me. Mays used a Rawlings Harvey Haddix glove, which has HH on the heel.

Wanted to take a second to respond directly. The Catch play is just such a great mid century iconic moment. So strange that Haddix would be tied to the moment in this way. The details create quite a narrative thread don't they!

dbussell12 · #5 05-24-2025, 10:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Webster

This:
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Pretty fun night for an 11 year old.

I can imagine.... wow!!! Did he sign it the same night?

dbussell12 · #6 05-24-2025, 10:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Lucas00

I love the 1950s aesthetic. Walking through a store and seeing an advertisement for star cals for example would be the coolest thing to me. Advertising in particular from the 50s is nostalgic to me even never having experienced it.

Similarly the roaring 20s give me the same second hand nostalgia feeling. I love the architecture and flashy lights, monster movies. This snapshot of Wajo from his 1924 scrapbook is the best I can show this.

Another that really interests me is Worlds Fairs. Chicago 1893 in particular, but also New York 1939/1964. For this example I'm showing my 1939 centennial paper logo with the original envelope given out at the 1939 new York world fair by Oppenheim Collins. A womens clothier.

I agree. The 50s and the Worlds Fairs are great choices; there's a lot to be said for the aesthetics of both. Especially those futuristic exhibits at the WFs right? Wild stuff. Futurism and imagining the 2000s if I remember correctly was a large pursuit in the 50s as well. Diner culture is great... greasers, Brando, the whole shebang!

Lucas00 · #7 05-25-2025, 12:50 AM

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Originally Posted by dbussell12

I agree. The 50s and the Worlds Fairs are great choices; there's a lot to be said for the aesthetics of both. Especially those futuristic exhibits at the WFs right? Wild stuff. Futurism and imagining the 2000s if I remember correctly was a large pursuit in the 50s as well. Diner culture is great... greasers, Brando, the whole shebang!

Yes the worlds fairs showed many inventions. Also showed tons of quacks and the like that I would've loved to see. Products that don't exist but for that time frame. Everything about them would've been grandiose, like a victorian millionaires wedding is how I imagine the setting in Chicago. Every corner you turn something weird and cool. I'm sure food from around the world and exhibits of some strange animals and the like. The original Ferris wheel.

I love this photo of the 1893 Chicago fair. Fountains, huge buildings. Catwalks to look down on everything. A photo I can almost hear.
Not to mention the story of H.H Holmes. Who likely used the fair for numerous killings. Obviously not a good thing, but adds to the mystique that much more.

27 million people visited the Chicago worlds fair for the 6 months it operated. That is an unimaginable number for the time. Especially in such a small time frame.

Here is a quote I found:

More than 65,000 exhibits from 46 nations were displayed in more than 200 structures built for the fair. Visitors were introduced to many new (and relatively new) concepts, inventions, and products, from Cracker Jack and Juicy Fruit gum to large-scale electric lighting and the Ferris wheel.

Keith H. Thompson · #8 05-25-2025, 12:13 PM

I was fascinated by a gold lined solid silver cup that always sat on top of my mothers sewing machine. Looking inside I saw what I now know was Sam Thompson's Dauvrey Cup Medal in the original blue silk container, a ball and tons of yarn for sewing.

The cup was a prize that Sam Thompson won in a fan popularity contest in 1894, and today can be seen in the HOF.

ColtWinchester · #9 05-29-2025, 09:30 PM

I still have the St. Louis Cardinals team autographed baseball from a game during the 1986 season. I was 11 years old and had recently been released from the hospital after having my 5th foot and leg surgery in that short timeand at my favorite place. Busch Stadium! I can still remember the feeling of anticipation, the sun on my face, and the sounds of the ball park. The smell of the hotdogs and bark of the memorabilia vendors. And then the disappointment of seeing kids lined up at the railing getting autographs of their favorite players, realizing with my legs in casts I couldn’t get there to get my ball signed that i brought. I was just happy to be there seeing my favorite team. I asked my dad “can we get down there to get autographs?” And my dad tryied to explain to me that he probably wouldn’t have much luck getting their attention with all the kids there” and how it’d be too hard to get my wheelchair down. A few minutes later An usher in a fancy red uniform tapped me on the shoulder and held out an official game ball with the entire teams signatures, and they were all real, in different pen colors. He had overheard our conversation and took it upon himself to get ahold of someone in the dugout and soon they brought the ball to him to give to me! I was ecstatic and couldn’t have had a better memory of baseball, my dad and kindness of strangers

ruth-gehrig · #10 05-29-2025, 09:35 PM

My gosh what an amazing story and memory!!

Simply fantastic

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Originally Posted by ColtWinchester

I still have the St. Louis Cardinals team autographed baseball from a game during the 1986 season. I was 11 years old and had recently been released from the hospital after having my 5th foot and leg surgery in that short timeand at my favorite place. Busch Stadium! I can still remember the feeling of anticipation, the sun on my face, and the sounds of the ball park. The smell of the hotdogs and bark of the memorabilia vendors. And then the disappointment of seeing kids lined up at the railing getting autographs of their favorite players, realizing with my legs in casts I couldn�t get there to get my ball signed that i brought. I was just happy to be there seeing my favorite team. I asked my dad �can we get down there to get autographs?� And my dad tryied to explain to me that he probably wouldn�t have much luck getting their attention with all the kids there� and how it�d be too hard to get my wheelchair down. A few minutes later An usher in a fancy red uniform tapped me on the shoulder and held out an official game ball with the entire teams signatures, and they were all real, in different pen colors. He had overheard our conversation and took it upon himself to get ahold of someone in the dugout and soon they brought the ball to him to give to me! I was ecstatic and couldn�t have had a better memory of baseball, my dad and kindness of strangers

Zach Wheat · #11 05-30-2025, 07:27 AM

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Originally Posted by ColtWinchester

I still have the St. Louis Cardinals team autographed baseball from a game during the 1986 season. I was 11 years old and had recently been released from the hospital after having my 5th foot and leg surgery in that short timeand at my favorite place. Busch Stadium! I can still remember the feeling of anticipation, the sun on my face, and the sounds of the ball park. The smell of the hotdogs and bark of the memorabilia vendors. And then the disappointment of seeing kids lined up at the railing getting autographs of their favorite players, realizing with my legs in casts I couldn�t get there to get my ball signed that i brought. I was just happy to be there seeing my favorite team. I asked my dad �can we get down there to get autographs?� And my dad tryied to explain to me that he probably wouldn�t have much luck getting their attention with all the kids there� and how it�d be too hard to get my wheelchair down. A few minutes later An usher in a fancy red uniform tapped me on the shoulder and held out an official game ball with the entire teams signatures, and they were all real, in different pen colors. He had overheard our conversation and took it upon himself to get ahold of someone in the dugout and soon they brought the ball to him to give to me! I was ecstatic and couldn�t have had a better memory of baseball, my dad and kindness of strangers

Neat story, nostalgia, kindness to others all wrapped together! Nice story, great memories. Thanks for sharing

Yoda · #12 05-30-2025, 01:49 PM

What brings me back are all the wonderful artifacts and exhibits found in a special place to house them in upstate New York.

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