Lot 85. 1925 Pittsburgh Sun Supplement of the World Champion Pittsburgh Pirates. This supplement features a black and white team photograph of the champion Pirates. It is nicely framed to 12 ¾” x 19 ¼”. The names of pictured team members appear below the photograph. They include: Barney Dreyfuss, president; Bill McKechnie, manager; Fred Clarke, assistant manager; Max Carey, captain and center field; Ki Ki Cuyler, right field; Pie Traynor, third base; Babe Adams, pitcher; and many others. The clarity and contrast of the photo are superb. It makes for a magnificent display piece.
Winning Bid $267.
Lot 89. Ticket Stubs from Roberto Clemente’s Last 5 Games + 2 Related NLCS Programs. Clemente’s Hall of Fame career came to a close in the 1972 N.L. Championship Series between the Pirates and Cincinnati. In five games, the Reds earned the right to play for the World Championship. Less than three months later, on Dec. 31, 1972, “the Great One” died in a plane crash en route to Nicaragua to deliver aid to earthquake victims. We believe this is the first time all five ticket stubs and a program from each city have been offered together. In Game 2 at Three Rivers Stadium, Clemente collected his final home RBI. Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati was the site of the final three games. Clemente had a double in Game 3. In Game 4, he ruined Ross Grimsley’s chance for a perfect game by collecting the Pirates only two hits, including his final home run. A single in Game 5 was his final hit. The unscored program for the games in Pittsburgh is ex-m. The ticket stub for Game 1 is nm, and for Game 2, ex-m. The program for Cincinnati is scored for Game 3 and ex+. The stubs for all three Cincinnati games are g-vg.
Winning Bid $218.
Lot 90. Circa 1950s Pittsburgh Pirates Full-Sized Pennant. Colorful 11 ½” x 29 ½” pennant features an uncommon full-length pirate and a skull and crossbones. It has one pinhole near the tip; otherwise, nm and attractive.
Winning Bid $204.
Lot 210. Vintage Ladies’ Day Transit Sign to Polo Grounds or Yankee Stadium. This 11” x 11” white hard cardboard broadside with black letters and some inoffensive creasing has been matted to a size of 14 ½” x 14 ½” and is ready for framing. It appeared on New York train lines during the 1930s through the early 1950s. The text boldly announces, “BASEBALL Ladies’ Day Every Friday POLO GROUNDS or YANKEE STADIUM Train “CC” To Ball Parks.” Very rare and highly desirable.
Winning Bid $327.
Lot 211. “‘Babe’ Ruth Defies Landis” – Boston American, Oct. 17, 1921. The bold red type reflects the intensity of the dispute between the two baseball icons as Ruth planned and conducted a barnstorming tour after the regular season. Landis wanted the World Series to be the single event that concluded the baseball season. Subsequently, Landis suspended Ruth for the first six weeks of the 1922 season. This original newspaper, technically f-g, has the makings of a superior display piece.
Winning Bid $40.
Lot 212. Aug. 17, 1948 Daily News: “Babe Ruth Dies.” Double-matted and framed to 17 ½” x 21”, the cover story represents a sober look at the death of one of baseball’s greats. With four paragraphs of text, a photo of Babe in his prime and a photo of Babe’s last appearance in uniform, the Daily News cover chronicles Babe’s illness and death.
Winning Bid $3,011.
Lot 213. Large Cardboard Pre-1958 Gil Hodges Chesterfield Cigarette Store Display. A smiling Gil Hodges holds a pack of Chesterfield Cigarettes in his left hand. The text reads, “Gil Hodges Says They Give You the Good Pitch. Stick with it! Chesterfield Mildness Plus No Unpleasant After-Taste.” The text also identifies Hodges as the “Sensational First Baseman Brooklyn Dodgers.” Measuring 20 ¼” x 21 ¾”, the display exhibits some staining, paper fraying and outstanding color. The original easel is intact on the reverse. Extremely desirable and exceedingly hard to find.
Winning Bid $240.
Lot 214. Brooklyn Dodgers Photos, Program, 1941 Yearbook-Style Publication. It looks much like a yearbook, but it’s not considered to be a Dodgers yearbook. The magazine-format publication is The Dodgers 1941: Today and Yesterday in Brooklyn Baseball by Clinton Hoard and Charles Dexter. W. & H. Publishing Co. of Brooklyn produced the 64-page un-yearbook, which contains individual pages on Durocher, Billy Herman, Reese, Lavagetto, Medwick and other stars. Vg copy with a light stain on the covers and last 16 pages. This group also includes a 1950 Philadelphia at Brooklyn program, ex; a 1948 issue of Look with “An Album of the Bums Through Fifty Years” inside, vg-ex; and The 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers, magazine from the Daily News, 192 pages, ex+. Subjects of the 8” x 10” color photos are the 1955 team, vg, and Hodges, Newcombe and Furillo, all nm.
Winning Bid $204.
Lot 215. Roy Campanella Print by Lance Richbourg. This 34 ½” x 18” framed, print by Richbourg show Campanella in a batting stance that probably resulted in a home run. Richbourg is a painter whose work is represented by the OK Harris gallery in New York.
Winning Bid $55.
Lot 216. Original 1955 RC Cola Ad with Jim Gilliam Prepared for “Negro Newspapers.” In 1953, Gilliam was Rookie of the Year as the Brooklyn Dodgers’ second baseman. One of the team’s more popular players, he appears in an ad saying that “RC is the cola I drink because RC tastes so good!” This display version of the ad is 11 ½” x 17 ¼” and ex on newsprint. Dated June 28, 1955, the ad was prepared by a New York ad firm. Copies of this ad have surfaced; this is an original.
Winning Bid $30.
Lot 217. 1958 Mickey Mantle Record Album – “My Favorite (Musical) Hits.” For this 33 1/3 rpm record album (LPM-1704) from RCA, Mantle picked “twelve of the records I remember and like best.” The album is a mix of country, western, jazz and big band, including “That Old Black Magic” by Glenn Miller, “Solitude” by Duke Ellington, “Tennessee Waltz” by Eddy Arnold and “The Last Round-up” by the Sons of the Pioneers. Other “hits” are by Artie Shaw, Vaughn Monroe, Tommy Dorsey, Billy Butterfield, Ralph Flanagan and others. Uncommon ex record and jacket.
Winning Bid $102.
Lot 218. Spectacular 1950s Mickey Mantle Photo Ring. This very scarce ring has a sepia photo of Mantle in a batting stance inside a ½” oval. The photo is mounted in an adjustable metal band, which shows some wear and has tarnished to a degree with age. The photo itself is nm.
Winning Bid $134.
Lot 219. Vintage Mickey Mantle Lee Jeans Promotional Pin. This 3” blue on white pin is seldom offered. It features Mantle in Yankee pinstripes and cap, batting. The text reads, “Lee Jeans The Brand That Fits, Mickey Mantle, Gayfers.” Some wear on the reverse, ex+ front, displays beautifully.
Winning Bid $50.
Lot 220. 3 Mickey Mantle Figurines, 3 Plates. Two porcelain figurines are from Sports Impressions: 1990 “The Mick,” 5” figure, nm. 1996 “Mickey Salutes the Fans,” hat broken. The third, a plastic figure, has Mantle standing atop Yankee Stadium. Sports Impressions is the source of two plates: “Mickey as a Rookie,” from the 1995 Hamilton Collection, 6 ½” plate, nm-m. Also, a 4” plate, 1991, “Mickey in the 50’s,” nm-m, glue residue on the back. The Bradford Exchange manufactured the third plate, the 7” “Bronx Bomber,” nm.
Winning Bid $40.
Lot 221. Prints and Photographs of Ruth, DiMaggio, Mantle and Munson. Babe Ruth is the subject of a framed 12” x 16” R. H. Palenske lithograph titled “The Immortal ‘Babe’.” Palenske, who died in 1954, was a graphic artist and painter whose works are in the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library and the Royal Gallery of London. Nm-m. Ruth is shown also with his wife in a small photo that was printed recently. Dan McKee is the artist for a Mickey Mantle 12” x 15” pencil drawing print matted to 18” x 22”. Nm-m. Thurman Munson is featured in a similar McKee print, framed without glass, and in a 16” x 20” photographic artist’s proof by Robert Stephen Simon. Dated 1992 and signed by Simon, this proof contains four images of the New York Yankees’ catcher. Both are nm. Joe DiMaggio is shown in three photos. An 11” x 14” b&w photo has a facsimile autograph. An 8” x 10” color photo shows an older Joe with broth Dom. A recent 11 x 14” print shows DiMaggio at the 1936 All-Star Game with Gehrig, Cronin, Dickey, Gehringer, Foxx and Greenberg. Nm. Eight photos or prints.
Winning Bid $92.
