Your top finds for 2011

[Scott Garner]

2011 has probably been my best year ever for pickups. It's tough to choose which I like best, but here are my favorites starting with early 2011:

1) Nolan Ryan 1973 All Star locker plate. 1973 was the first year that Ryan played in the Mid-Summer Classic, from what I believe was his career year! Purchased here on net54.

2) HOF Ted Lyons 1926 no-hitter ticket and scorebook. The beautifully scored games in the scorebook and ticket all originated from the estate of the original owner, George Tarallo who attended the game at age 15. Discovered in an antique shop in Caimbridge, Mass by a friend of a friend. Transaction completed over a smartphone. Awesome!!!

3) HB Dutch Leonard game used ball from his no-hitter game in 1916 at Fenway. This ball was passed down through one family and appeared in the hobby for the 1st time in 2011 almost 100 years later. The storyline behind the ball, the game, and the way that it displays makes this perhaps one of my favorite items in my collection, period. A great vintage centerpiece to my no-hitter collection. Purchased on eBay from an antique dealer in Rochester, NY.

4) Season pass to 1901 St. Louis Cardinals. The only known example of a pass or ticket to HOF Christy Mathewson's 1st no-hitter. This came to me as a gift. What a gift! Thanks Tony!

5) Season tickets to Gaylord Perry's and Ray Washburn's back-to-back no-hitters that they threw on Sept. 17th and 18th, 1968. Also see the complimentary wire photo that I just purchased from Perry congratulating Washburn in the locker after his historic encore. The newspaper caption on the back of the photo reads "Lightning Strikes Twice!". Indeed!

Happy Holidays to everyone on net54! I hope you all had a great year as well!

[vintagesportflips]

Great pickups everyone, looks like all of us had a good year collecting.
Here are several of my favorites. I focus on 3 areas of collecting - the Phila. Eagles and Frankford Yellowjackets, and then to a lesser extend Carlisle Indians pieces. My favorite 2 Eagles pickups were 2 very rare pennants. I had been hunting the brown Eagle 1960 champs variety for about 10 years, while the other is the first example of its type I've ever encountered.
Then my next 3 favorite pickups are 3 early Carlisle Indians cabinet photos, all which include Pop Warner. The first 2, I am still working to narrow down the exact year. The first one below I am fairly certain is a cabinet photo of the 1901 team. In the photo, is college HOFer Carlisle standout Jimmy Johnson, but even neater, sitting next to the Eskimo player in the front row is a young Chief Bender. He played football for Carlisle in 1900 and 1901. The 2nd photo, I believe is 1899. It obviously has a fair amout of damage, but I still love it. Lastly I picked up a massive imperial cabinet photo of the 1909 Carlisle team in its original frame in a large trade with a fellow collector. Time to make some wall space now.

[baseballart]

Surprisingly, not a book (still looking though), but one real photo postcard

[71buc]

Very cool Max. Was the Wenatchee team also called the Apple Sox at that time?

[baseballart]

Mike

From what I've been told, this Wenatchee team was an amateur team (the Victoria team was part of the NWL) Not sure if they had a nickname.

Max

[71buc]

Originally Posted by baseballart

Mike

From what I've been told, this Wenatchee team was an amateur team (the Victoria team was part of the NWL) Not sure if they had a nickname.

Max

Thanks Max I have been to a number of games in Wenatchee and always thought it was a cool team name. I was just curious if there was a historic connection in addition to the agricultural one. It is a beautiful item nonetheless.

[perezfan]

Congrats to everyone for some incredible pickups!

I suppose these would be my "Top 5" for 2011....

[thekingofclout]

Originally Posted by Scott Garner

2011 has probably been my best year ever for pickups. It's tough to choose which I like best, but here are my favorites starting with early 2011:

1) Nolan Ryan 1973 All Star locker plate. 1973 was the first year that Ryan played in the Mid-Summer Classic, from what I believe was his career year! Purchased here on net54.

2) HOF Ted Lyons 1926 no-hitter ticket and scorebook. The beautifully scored games in the scorebook and ticket all originated from the estate of the original owner, George Tarallo who attended the game at age 15. Discovered in an antique shop in Caimbridge, Mass by a friend of a friend. Transaction completed over a smartphone. Awesome!!!

3) HB Dutch Leonard game used ball from his no-hitter game in 1916 at Fenway. This ball was passed down through one family and appeared in the hobby for the 1st time in 2011 almost 100 years later. The storyline behind the ball, the game, and the way that it displays makes this perhaps one of my favorite items in my collection, period. A great vintage centerpiece to my no-hitter collection. Purchased on eBay from an antique dealer in Rochester, NY.

4) Season pass to 1901 St. Louis Cardinals. The only known example of a pass or ticket to HOF Christy Mathewson's 1st no-hitter. This came to me as a gift. What a gift! Thanks Tony!

5) Season tickets to Gaylord Perry's and Ray Washburn's back-to-back no-hitters that they threw on Sept. 17th and 18th, 1968. Also see the complimentary wire photo that I just purchased from Perry congratulating Washburn in the locker after his historic encore. The newspaper caption on the back of the photo reads "Lightning Strikes Twice!". Indeed!

Happy Holidays to everyone on net54! I hope you all had a great year as well!

Hey Scott. You didn't have a great year, you had a 1927 Yanks Year!

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by thekingofclout

Hey Scott. You didn't have a great year, you had a 1927 Yanks Year!

Hey Jimmy,
That's pretty lofty company, but I appreciate your compliment. Your photo pickups this year have also been unhinged and off the charts!!

[Frozen in Time]

8X10 vintage, original Type I John Dominis award winning photo of the Mick. Taken June 25, 1965 this photo was part of the portfolio that won the famous Life Magazine staff photographer the "Magazine Photographer of the Year Award" and shows Mantle's frustration during a year beset by injuries as his head is down in disgust throwing his batting helmet - away a feat he did with such class!!!

[thekingofclout]

Here are a few of my best Beatles pick-ups from 2011.

First up is this sweet 1968 all Original Beatles/Yellow Submarine Alarm Clock with seldom seen original box and instructions.

An Extremely Rare 1966 Beatles Colorforms Cartoon Set in top-notch condition.

And from SELCOL back in 1964 comes this spiffy set of The Beatles/RINGO Starr "New Beat" Drum Set with it's ORIGINAL BOX, DRUMSTICKS, BRUSHES, INSTRUCTIONS, along with the very rare KEY, & INSERT!

Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!

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[dwr11]

Here are a few of my favorite pickups from 2011. The game used bat was a gift directly from Robinson Cano to me for my son at Target Field.

[GrayGhost]

Great stuff all. WONDERFUL Job by Robbie on the bat. Lucky kid.

[Lordstan]

Originally Posted by dwr11

Here are a few of my favorite pickups from 2011. The game used bat was a gift directly from Robinson Cano to me for my son at Target Field.

Love the picture of your boy. I think it would make a great make up a caption thread.

He looks like he's saying.."What you couldn't get a Jeter?"