June Pickups Thread

[mrreality68]

Memory Lane pickup

1 of 2 known.

Not exactly your typical Ruth

Fortunate to add this to my collection

[JJ McGraw]

I have been chasing this card for quite some time. Old Butch Schmidt was the last card I needed to complete the 14 member Boston Braves Cracker Jack subset. Looking on eBay and there he was. Was able to buy direct from seller, the colors on this one are great …nice deep red!

[oldjudge]

Wow, Jeff! Apparently you really wanted that one.

[tkd]

Awesome Ruth Jeff!
Will look great in your collection!

[jingram058]

Originally Posted by mrreality68

Memory Lane pickup

1 of 2 known.

Not exactly your typical Ruth

Fortunate to add this to my collection

That's awesome! Congrats on a very "cool" pickup, sir!

[lukewarm_pizza]

Pickups from the Detroit Sports Spectacular this weekend.

[DeanH3]

Nice haul Elliot. Those display great for their grades. Well done.

[lukewarm_pizza]

Thank you, Dean. I actually just recently re-slabbed the T206 Christy Mathewson you sold me and am very happy with how it looks its new case.

[DeanH3]

Looks great Elliot. I definitely need to get some re-slabbed as well.

[sportscardpete]

Great pickups everyone. Love the Ruth, Delahanty, Cobb and Mathewson. Here is a Pathe Freres Babe Ruth I recently picked up from Heritage. Appreciate everyone's research on this one, which has made this card less and less affordable.

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[Pat R]

Originally Posted by mrreality68

Memory Lane pickup

1 of 2 known.

Not exactly your typical Ruth

Fortunate to add this to my collection

Nice postcard. The flip says circa 1920's but it's most likely from 1922. All of the ads that I've seen that include Ruth are from August-September 1922 except one ad in an Hawaii newspaper from February 17 1923.


Here's one from a September 30 1922 El Paso newspaper
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[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by Pat R

Nice postcard. The flip says circa 1920's but it's most likely from 1922. All of the ads that I've seen that include Ruth are from August-September 1922 except one ad in an Hawaii newspaper from February 17 1923.


Here's one from a September 30 1922 El Paso newspaper
Attachment 662951

That is very cool Patrick.
Thanks for sharing

[jingram058]

Originally Posted by Pat R

Nice postcard. The flip says circa 1920's but it's most likely from 1922. All of the ads that I've seen that include Ruth are from August-September 1922 except one ad in an Hawaii newspaper from February 17 1923.


Here's one from a September 30 1922 El Paso newspaper
Attachment 662951

And yet another.

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by jingram058

And yet another.

I wondering if there are any hard copies of those.
Would be great to put them together and match them up with my card

[BRoberts]

I wonder what the value of a hard-copy example of those ads would be. $5,000? $10,000?

[jingram058]

Originally Posted by mrreality68

I wondering if there are any hard copies of those.
Would be great to put them together and match them up with my card

The advertisement I posted above is a hard copy available on eBay right now.

Meanwhile, searching Google, I found this actual foil wrapper.

This whole thing is one of the most fascinating Babe Ruth-related things I have ever seen. Jeff, your postcard absolutely amazing!

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by jingram058

And yet another.

James you make me obsessed

I saw this and you directed me to eBay and now it is mine to put together with the card

Now I have the card and the paper with the advertisement

Thank you so much

[ruth-gehrig]

Not mine Jeff but here's another companion piece that is out there....Babe helping out on the production line

[jingram058]

Originally Posted by mrreality68

James you make me obsessed

I saw this and you directed me to eBay and now it is mine to put together with the card

Now I have the card and the paper with the advertisement

Thank you so much

My pleasure, Jeff. Your postcard and the story around it is incredibly interesting!

[RayBShotz]

Pleased to add another HOF'er to my W514 set effort.
RayB

[Brian Van Horn]

Thank you, Ben.

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by mrreality68

Memory Lane pickup
1 of 2 known. Not exactly your typical Ruth
Fortunate to add this to my collection

Amazing PC!

[srik]

mmm ... chocolate covered ice cream baseballs ... this product should totally be revived

[mybuddyinc]

................. Big thanks to Ben G. for making Donlin, .300 batter available .....

.............. Has to be one of the more "unique" captions out there ...... ..... and it goes so nice with the tough NY NL ..................

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Fun, fun, Scott

[hammertime]

I got a couple nice things in the mail today.

[Wanaselja]

Huge thanks to Rob (robw1959) for this one!
70 down. 4 to go.

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[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by hammertime

I got a couple nice things in the mail today.

I find this interesting because I have always heard that Aaron hated the nickname Hank and here he has a perfect opportunity to sign Henry since that's what the card says. Maybe he just knew that collectors would always want him to sign Hank.

[JJ McGraw]

This arrived today from the auction house……take the mound Doc Crandall !