Please share your Cincinnati Reds items

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by perezfan

Scott:

I vividly remember that day in 1990... It was like a Slip & Slide, with grown men acting like kids. Little did we know they would go on to sweep the Mighty Athletics in the World Series. That (28 years ago) was literally the last time I was ecstatic about baseball. It's been a long drought...

I'll give this a shot. How about...

Davey
Sparky
Pete
Johnny
and
Bill Plummer?

All I remember is eating three Metwursts before the game and watching the sliding around. I can't remember if they got any baseball in, but it was a great day.

[perezfan]

Originally Posted by Runscott

All I remember is eating three Metwursts before the game and watching the sliding around. I can't remember if they got any baseball in, but it was a great day.

Any time you get to eat Mets or Brats (or Skyline Chili) it is indeed a great day!

[sphere and ash]

Collage of cut prints by Charles Conlon for use in Spalding’s Guide, 1914.

When readied for reproduction in ink, Conlon's photographs were frequently silhouetted or cut with a pen-knife.

Pictured are Cincinnati Reds players Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown, Rube Benton, Gene Packard, Johnny Kling, George Howard "Chief" Johnson and George Suggs.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by sphere and ash

Collage of cut prints by Charles Conlon for use in Spalding’s Guide, 1914.

When readied for reproduction in ink, Conlon's photographs were frequently silhouetted or cut with a pen-knife.

Pictured are Cincinnati Reds players Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown, Rube Benton, Gene Packard, Johnny Kling, George Howard "Chief" Johnson and George Suggs.

I would love to see a larger scan of that - first time I've seen one of these.

[sphere and ash]

Originally Posted by Runscott

I would love to see a larger scan of that - first time I've seen one of these.

I don’t know how much larger this will be, but it’s all I have at the moment.

[Runscott]

Originally Posted by sphere and ash

I don’t know how much larger this will be, but it’s all I have at the moment.

It is the same size, but thank you for trying.

[Scott Garner]

I recently picked up this Vandy display that was used by the Reds HOF in 2008 during the celebration of the HOF's 50th Anniversary. Johnny Vander Meer was one of the original inductees into the Reds HOF in 1958.

The Reds sold several items from this exhibit in the Everything But The House auction in Cincinnati last week.
The Vander Meer display says:

Johnny Vander Meer Pitcher 1937-1949 and has this quote from Vander Meer:
"Somebody might tie it, but I don't think it will ever be broken" - Vander Meer on his record back-to-back no-hitters in 1938.


The display dimensions are 9" x 12" by 1/4"

Many thanks to net54 good guy Chris Gamble (Bumpus Jones) for telling me about this auction.