October 2011 Pick-Up Thread

[Bobsbats]

Honus and Lajoie

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[iwantitiwinit]

Anyone know when home plate changed form?

[william_9]

I believe it was either 1899 or 1900.

[Runscott]

I'll second what everyone else is saying - that Ruth Red Sox photo is great. I used to collect Ruth items back when I had $$, and two of my favorite items were a Burke photo and a silver gel 'snapshot' from a barnstorming tour. All gone...

On a more positive note, I picked up a huge (small) black baseball related item last week - a 1909 ticket book, including 7 tickets, for Niesen's Gunther Park in Chicago. Among the games played there that year: series between the Leland Giants and the Cubans, 1-0 game where Rube Foster beat Ed Reulbach and the Chicago Cubs, games between Leland's Giants and the Guenther team, and also games between the Guenthers and the Cubans. There might have been other famous black teams that also played there that year - I haven't completed my research. The Kansas City Giants played the Cubans in Chicago that year, in several parks, but I can't verify that they played at Guenther Park.

Still looking for RPPCs of either the 1911 Chicago Giants or 1911 Kansas City, KS, Giants.

[CarltonHendricks]

Here’s my first pickups for October…Went to the Alameda Point show yesterday…I got the 1880’s baseball cap below…I initially saw it at the National last summer…I made an offer but the seller wasn’t ready to sell since he got it there at the National…Fortunatly the seller lives here in the bay area and sets up at the Monthly Alameda show…Last Alameda he shot me a price and I put down $300.00 to hold it and paid the balance yesterday…It's a very rare example of cap and kind of completes my collection of basic styles..I have the pillbox, boater, small bill Harvard cap, and now this striped one...which is the only one I've ever seen for sale...No makers tag but I got coaching from John Gennantonio and he gave it his stamp of approval as a style that was used for multiple sports as well as baseball...as seen by the 1886 Princeton baseball team photo under it


Photographed at 2011 National


Photographed at 2011 National







The seller also had a pair of 1890ish two tone Spalding baseball cleats…I didn’t plan on it but I couldn’t leave without’um!...







Also got a 20” x 14” photo of a boy taking a photo of boys topping a bat at home plate sand lot style..I alreday cross pollunated threads on this interesting photo earlier today, link below.
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=142270



Plus got an interesting little 1924 team photo of the Tucson High School girls basketball team (Tucson AZ)….The names of the players are written by hand in ink on each player…along with the name of the coach…A few weeks ago I bought a girls basketball poster with a large illustration of a girl player for the 1929 Oakland Ca YWCA vs San Francisco YWCA…so this kind of goes along with it…





Now I need to lay low…spending money like a drunken sailor lately!

[perezfan]

Nice score, Carlton!!! Especially the 1880s Cap. I really love the colors and design of that one. Has to the best (or one of the best) examples to exist... the condition looks impossibly good for something that early. What a neat piece (both inside and out).

Nice cleats as well.... never seen a pair quite that old, or that attracive. You're really on a roll- congrats!

[Scott Garner]

Outstanding month Carlton! Beautiful items all...