July 2012 Pickups

I guess I'll start off July

WOW! Nice Old Judge Gleason, and the photo of the ballgame at Guantanamo is exceptional.

Looks like the game took place between the crews of the USS Jupiter & the USS Wyoming some time between January 10 & April 9, 1916 according to these sites below....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jupiter_(AC-3)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wyoming_(BB-32)

pariah1107 wrote:WOW! Nice Old Judge Gleason, and the photo of the ballgame at Guantanamo is exceptional.

Looks like the game took place between the crews of the USS Jupiter & the USS Wyoming some time between January 10 & April 9, 1916 according to these sites below....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jupiter_(AC-3)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Wyoming_(BB-32)

Thanks for the comments

did a double take on that Gleason, great clarity

Thanks, Jeff

Wow, Jeff that is beautiful
Such a great image.

Gents, congrats! These are sensational.

I can't really hang with those, but I did just receive this one which I'm happy to have in the old collection:

Great Gleason, sweet Three fingers, you can see the stub pretty clearly.

Lee

The march of the commons was delayed a few days by power issues, but we're back in action!

I, respectfully, say those are more than commons. Nice pick up. The Sleepy Burns is great and his dealings are well known, but the card I like is the Hunky Shaw.

Hunky Shaw, here is a truly mentally unbalanced individual. Just look at those eyes. After a frustratingly short (one at bat) major league career he was bounced from league to league until he ended up in Edmonton, Canada in 1920. Where he assaulted and nearly killed an umpire between games of a doubleheader.

http://books.google.com/books?id=pX4EqY5CdmwC&pg=PA74&lpg=PA74&dq=hunky+shaw+1920+edmonton&source=bl&ots=enOc52azB6&sig=Gq7Eg0PdVNdAgu_jhxV4B-mYqZI&hl=en#v=onepage&q=hunky%20shaw%201920%20edmonton&f=false

"After his deportation at that countries' subsequent refusal to accept him.." (Slapshot) he ended up in Yakima, Washington where he played third base and managed the local nine. He, again, exploded in 1927 in a game versus Toppenish when he began to strangle an umpire during play. "After the police subdued Shaw he cooled down in the city's bastille" (Cle Elum Miner/Echo). He continued to manage a local Yakima semi-pro team until the mid-30's.

Armbruster I know nothing about

Wow! Thanks for the info. Yeah, I knew about Burns (and was glad to be the winner on that one, since it's a pretty sharp 2.5), but I had no idea Shaw was such a wack-job. Fascinating.

Armbruster's card says "Herman," but he's on baseball-reference as Harry G. Armbruster, who played one year ('06) in the Majors for the Athletics. He spent nine seasons in the Minors, hitting .292. Later became a machinist. Definitely not as interesting as the other two.

Love the Brown Cutlery. I think that's the first time I've seen a good shot of him actually holding the ball.

Due to my recent unemployment this may be my last big purchase for a while.

Thanks to Ben I have added a Goodwin kelly to my collection:



Lee

Good stuff Lee, glad to see it arrived safely. Enjoy it, such a classic pose.

Wow! That Kelly is awfully sharp for a 1. Nice.

Okay, I admit, I went a little crazy this weekend. Power outages kept me largely out of the game last weekend, so I had the fever!

Nice bunch of T206's
I use to have the fever, had to have something coming on a regular basis.
But now, Old Age and retirement has slowed things down not to mention less disposable Income.

Keep'm coming

One more for the Red Sox collection: