October 2011 Pick-Up Thread

dwr11 · #1 10-19-2011, 09:08 AM

I picked up this signed Notre Dame football at a local auction last weekend. It has 15 autographs on it. In doing a little research I think it is from 1957. I really don't know that much about it.

tlwise12 · #2 10-20-2011, 06:19 PM

I'm not usually an autograph collector, but I have picked up a few recently...

1. George Detore autograph (played 33 games in the majors between 1930-31 and then in the PCL from the late 1930s to the mid 1940s). At the national this year, a smaller autograph authentication company, ACE, was giving out free autographs and my mom happened to pick it up. I had no idea who it was until I looked him up. I'd say hes a tough autograph!

2. Rugger Ardizoia (played in the PCL during the late 1930s and into the 1950s...Also, made a one game appearance during 1947 to pitch for the New York Yankees). I wrote to him and he was gracious enough to mail back a small note talking about playing in the PCL and against the Colored House of David.

3. Bill Holland autographed album page mentioning him as the first black pitcher to pitch at Yankee Stadium. His autograph is a real toughie and I'm glad to have a early Negro Leaguer that also pitched in Cuba during the
1920's.

mschwade · #3 10-21-2011, 01:10 PM

Got these in the mail today!

Runscott · #4 10-29-2011, 12:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dwr11

I picked up this signed Notre Dame football at a local auction last weekend. It has 15 autographs on it. In doing a little research I think it is from 1957. I really don't know that much about it.

Very cool. I used to have a gold late '50s leather helmet with a dark navy stripe - Notre Dame was the last college to use leather helmets, and this was the exact 'pro' model they wore that year. Mine was almost certainly not a Notre Dame helmet, as I had no provenance that would indicate it was, but I sent pics to a major auction house and their authenticator was prepared to sell it as a genuine ND helmet

I thought, "these guys really don't know me"; however, I simply declined rather than call them out as I normally would.

Now I sincerely wish I had saved that helmet - it would have been beautiful in a case next to your football, and it cost me next to nothing.

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