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Yankees and Dodgers
15 Lots
 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 Lot 222. 90 Unopened Lou Gehrig the “Iron Horse” First Day of Issue Stamp Souvenirs. Produced by the U.S. Postal Service, this souvenir commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Baseball Hall of Fame and of Gehrig’s retirement from baseball. It features an outer folder that pictures an enlargement of the 25-cent Lou Gehrig stamp. Inside, a four-page booklet provides information about Gehrig. An accompanying greeting card pictures a train (Iron Horse), with baseballs bearing the number 4 (Gehrig’s jersey number) pouring from its smokestack. The inside of the card contains information regarding Gehrig on its top half and a Gehrig stamp cancelled with “First Day of Issue, Cooperstown, NY Jun 10, 1989 13326” on its bottom half. The Post Office offered these souvenirs for $5 each. We’ll start the bidding for all 90 at
Winning Bid $92.
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 Lot 224. New York Yankees, Cards, Plaques, Pins - Mantle, Dimaggio, Ruth and More. Cards: 1. 1992 Wiz Yankees Classics 162 cards including Berra (2), Rizzuto (2), Ford, Ruth, Gehrig, Dimaggio (2), Mantle (2), Maris. Nm-m. 2. 1986 Renata Galasso 1961 Yankees Color complete set of 37, nm-m. 3. 1975 SSPC, 29 cards, nm-m. 4. 1987 TCMA 1927 Yankees set of 9 with Gehrig and Ruth, nm-m. Plaques: All are about 6” x 4 ¼”. Each features a card of the player with his name embossed beneath. 1. Mantle with a 1952 Topps reprint. 2. DiMaggio with a card by Pinnacle. 3. Mattingly, 1991 Upper Deck. Pins: 1. DiMaggio, black and white portrait on a blue background; name printed in black, ex-m. 2. Ruth, black and white portrait on a white baseball background, stitching and text reading “Member Baseball Club” in red, facsimile autograph “Babe Ruth” in black, ex-m.
Winning Bid $68.
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