Possibly the oldest known baseball tickets discovered

[Scott Garner]

As a follow up on my earlier post, I noticed this morning that Colin Twig, the guy that found what is perhaps the earliest known base ball ticket- Philadelphia Athletics 1867 now has it for sale on eBay. Only $25,000 will allow you to add it to your collection.

Maybe one of the guys that purchased the two $500,000+ jerseys in the Heritage Platinum auction has $25K in spare change laying around....

In case you are interested in looking at the auction it's eBay # 200637920020

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

As a follow up on my earlier post, I noticed this morning that the guy that found what is perhaps the earliest known base ball ticket- Philadelphia Athletics 1867 now has it for sale on eBay. Only $25,000 will allow you to add it to your collection.

Maybe one of the guys that purchased the two $500,000+ jerseys in the Heritage Platinum auction has $25K in spare change laying around....

In case you are interested in looking at the auction it's eBay # 200637920020

Here is the auction photo of the ticket

[barrysloate]

Hmmm...doesn't look like a 25K item to me.

[mschwade]

The Convention Ticket is on eBay for $25K also: http://cgi.ebay.com/1867-Baseball-Co...item2eb6f3b330

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by mschwade

The Convention Ticket is on eBay for $25K also: http://cgi.ebay.com/1867-Baseball-Co...item2eb6f3b330

Bargains, both of them. Let me get my checkbook out before somebody snaps them up....

[mschwade]

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

Bargains, both of them. Let me get my checkbook out before somebody snaps them up....

Right.... so much for the, "But if you can buy something for $50 and sell it for $5,000, that's what you look for" quote.

[jthorn]

Is this the oldest surviving baseball ticket of admission? I believe so. It's from a postseason contest between the unbeaten Atlantics of Brooklyn and a "picked nine" (stars of other clubs), at the Capitoline Grounds (depicted, from 1866).