Your memorabilia focus?

Runscott · #1 04-19-2012, 11:04 AM

He just has a different definition of the word 'focus'

sports-rings · #2 04-19-2012, 12:51 PM

I collect Championship Rings. Here is my favorite acquisition this year, a player's Superbowl XL Ring and wood presentation box.

Exhibitman · #3 04-20-2012, 06:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Runscott

He just has a different definition of the word 'focus'

Actually I'd call it "unfocus"

jcking2722 · #4 04-20-2012, 10:34 AM

My collection is based on the All Century Team and I collect signed items, memorabilia, and cards of the players named to the team. I also collect some other HOF Baseball items as well such as the hat below that I picked up about a month or so ago.

1957 Brooklyn Dodgers Don Drysdale Game Used hat

jcking2722 · #5 04-20-2012, 10:38 AM

Just for clarification, I am not claiming that the hat in the picture is the hat I own, just the same style. The picture is from 1957 though.

Scott Garner · #6 04-20-2012, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by jcking2722

My collection is based on the All Century Team and I collect signed items, memorabilia, and cards of the players named to the team. I also collect some other HOF Baseball items as well such as the hat below that I picked up about a month or so ago.

1957 Brooklyn Dodgers Don Drysdale Game Used hat

Great "Big D" hat!!

BTW, Did you ever hear that Drysdale was the designated "enforcer" on the Dodgers, especially later in his career? He subscribed to the Sal "The Barber" Maglie school of knocking players down. It was once said that Sal Maglie would knock his own mother down with a pitch if it would help him get a "W" (sic). Listening to Don Drysdale talk about this topic when he was a broadcaster for the Angels in the 1970's was always entertaining...

I seem to recall reading that Sandy Koufax never liked to hit opposing batters on purpose because he was afraid he might injure them or end a career. He asked Big D to take care of business as his proxy.

Drysdale would write the name of opposing players that he was suppose to hit inside his game hats and would refer to the lists frequently so that he would leave no stone unturned. You have to admire someone that is so passionate about their trade!

jcking2722 · #7 04-20-2012, 01:30 PM

Thanks for sharing, anecdotes about players are always fun to hear.

Gotta love that he kept a list in his hat! LOL Wish my hat had some names written in it!

perezfan · #8 04-20-2012, 01:35 PM

Big D was a great hitting pitcher, too. I recall a lot of Dodger games in which they actually used him to pinch hit. Different game back then, but it's a neat memory...

A tough guy - but then there was his guest appearance on The Brady Bunch

Scott Garner · #9 04-20-2012, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by perezfan

Big D was a great hitting pitcher, too. I recall a lot of Dodger games in which they actually used him to pinch hit. Different game back then, but it's a neat memory...

A tough guy - but then there was his guest appearance on The Brady Bunch

Sandy Koufax was on Dennis the Menace...

71buc · #10 04-20-2012, 08:17 PM

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Originally Posted by perezfan

Big D was a great hitting pitcher, too. I recall a lot of Dodger games in which they actually used him to pinch hit. Different game back then, but it's a neat memory...

A tough guy - but then there was his guest appearance on The Brady Bunch

He was on the Donna Reed show and Leave it to Beaver as well.

Bugsy · #11 04-20-2012, 01:40 PM

I collect St. Paul Saints memorabilia, especially from the 1920s. I know I have posted this one before, but it's one of my favorites. It is their 1920 Championship Trophy.

Bugsy · #12 04-20-2012, 01:45 PM

Part of my Saints collection is game used bats (or at least game model bats), particularly from their 1920s teams. This one was my most recent pickup, Braggo Roth. He was one of the players the White Sox traded to Cleveland for Joe Jackson and he was also on the 1921 Yankees team.

CarltonHendricks · #13 04-20-2012, 02:10 PM

One of my focus is antique sports sculpture. Below is a c1900 silver plate statue of an oarsman holding a wreath in victory standing by a scull. I spotted it on eBay about 4:30AM 8 hours before it closed. It's a monster at 22 inch wide. I had a snipe bid about 4 times what I got it for! I had never seen the complete statue but saw just the athlete laying on a table at an antique street fair in Pleasanton Ca in May 2009...I didn't know what sport he was for so passed because it was a little pricey.

I got it for such a bargain I bid and won the wooden model below of a double scull from the same seller...which closed an hour after the statue...always wanted one those models.....they don't come up too often. For the price I got the statue for it was like a freebie! They're essentially folk art. It was listed as 19th century but it seems like c1900...and was represented to have had restoration....they did a perfect job...the oars are clearly not original to the boat but they're not too bad...for the price of $305.00...I think I've seen damaged ones go for double that...The seller did a great pack job on both pieces....the model came in a length of PVC pipe so was indestructible

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