Jan. 2011 Pick-up thread...

[thekingofclout]

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

Wow, 2011 really started off with a bang!

sayhey24 Greg listed some really cool 1973 All Star game locker tags on the BST section yesterday morning. One of these was for one of my primary collecting focuses, HOFer Nolan Ryan. Growing up an Angels fan in So Cal, Nolan Ryan was always my favorite player. The Angels era portion of my advanced Ryan collection has always been my pride and joy with special emphasis on the year 1973, which IMHO, was Ryan's best year. The site of the 1973 All Star game, KC Royals Stadium, was significant for Nolan because it had been the place that he threw his 1st of 7 career no-hitters just 2 months prior on 5/15/73.

The 1973 All Star game was noteworthy for Ryan because it was the 1st time that he actually pitched in the mid-summer classic. He was added to the 1972 AL All Star roster as a special write in vote, but did not play. Ironically, in the year that Nolan Ryan dominated baseball, he got lit up at the 1973 All Star game. I believe that he called his and Angels teammate Bill Singers' appearance in the AS game "like throwing gasoline on a fire!"

In an interesting side note, these 1973 locker tags first appeared on eBay several years ago. I've been bummed that I didn't get the Ryan 1973 All Star locker tag the 1st time around, but sometimes in this hobby you get lucky and get a second crack at a special item. Thanks to Greg I added this one yesterday!

Happy 2011 to all of you on net54!

Damn Scott! That is a tremendous piece to add to your legendary Ryan collection! Greg is a stand up guy with very high character, not to mention his fantastic collection.

Have you decided how you're going to display it? When you do, please post photos of it.

All good things, Jimmy

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by thekingofclout

Damn Scott! That is a tremendous piece to add to your legendary Ryan collection! Greg is a stand up guy with very high character, not to mention his fantastic collection.

Have you decided how you're going to display it? When you do, please post photos of it.

All good things, Jimmy

Thanks Jimmy! I'm not 100% sure about the dimensions of the All star lock tag yet, but most likely it will get added to my Ryan Angels display case. I'll shoot some photos when I get it all squared away.

[ray1954]

Started the New Year right by visiting a few small Antique Malls in So. VA. Bought the Piedmont Porcelain sign and this odd / unique 1948 Red Robin Hornets Broadside - good DC area item.

Thought I would share the Cap Anson Cigar Box as this was my favorite pickup from 2010. Happy New Year to everyone ! - Ray

[Joe Hunter]

Picked up this ORIGINAL Teds Creamy Root Beer tray and 12 oz bottle(1959). These are hard to find. You see lots of the fantasy pieces and reproductions associated with this issue, but rarely does the real thing pop up.

[milkit1]

holy crap what did that mcgraw bat cost? love it!

[thekingofclout]

Originally Posted by Joe Hunter

Picked up this ORIGINAL Teds Creamy Root Beer tray and 12 oz bottle(1959). These are hard to find. You see lots of the fantasy pieces and reproductions associated with this issue, but rarely does the real thing pop up.

Boy Joe, you're not kidding. Those are very tough. I can't get over the condition. Just tremendous. Congrats.

Just picked this up. Marilyn Monroe Original Vicente Pharmacy Receipt Dated May 12 1962. Just 3 months later she would be dead of an overdose.

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[Scott Garner]

[QUOTE=thekingofclout;860019]Boy Joe, you're not kidding. Those are very tough. I can't get over the condition. Just tremendous. Congrats.

Just picked this up. Marilyn Monroe Original Vicente Pharmacy Receipt Dated May 12 1962. Just 3 months later she would be dead of an overdose.

Jimmy,
Looks like Marilyn was buying bottles of peroxide in order to keep up those platinum blond looks. This also makes this a cool receipt in addition to the obvious historical connection...

[GrayGhost]

What I find fascinating about some of you guys pickups, with the Marilyn receipt in mind in this case, is not just having the financial means, but WHERE DO YOU FIND THIS STUFF? I know there are major auctions all the time, etc etc, but man, some of this stuff is world class and it seems to pop out of the woodwork.

[Scott Garner]

I just picked up a pretty neat ticket from the 2nd game of the 1944 Pacific Service World Series that was played on September 23, 1944.

In this game, "Double No-Hit" Cincinnati Reds hurler Johnny VanderMeer and the Navy team bested losing pitcher Al Lein (of SF Seals PCL) and the Army 8-2.

The 1944 Pacific League Championship Series (World Series) was the brainchild of Army Chief of Staff George Marshall, who in the spring of 1944, determined that there were over 280 former major league players in active military service. The Series that pitted the Army and Navy's best was an 11 game series played at different military bases in Hawaii between Sept. 22, 1944 and Oct. 15th, 1944.

Behind the mostly outstanding pitching of the Navy staff the Navy team won 9 of the 11 games.

Some of the major leaguers that played in this Pacific Service World Series included:
Johnny VanderMeer, Virgil Trucks (he also threw 2 no-hitters while playing with the Tigers in 1952), Phil Rizzuto, Bill Dickey, Schoolboy Rowe, Johnny Beazley, Joe Gordon, Joe Grace, Ken Sears, Tom Ferrick. Hugh Casey,
Johnny Mize, Barney McCloskey, Walter Judnich and Johnny Lucadello to name a few.

This is a pretty neat ticket. I've got to wonder how many of these survived after all of these years?

[SethY]

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