Memorabilia you own [Archive]

RuthMayBond

11-04-2008, 12:22 PM

Should this go here or in the personal collection area? (although we have cards that we own in this area). Just received a pair of big league game-used batting gloves of one of the Mets, from their official company.
Fourteen bucks :dance

Dalkowski110

11-04-2008, 12:47 PM

Hmm...well, I have a ton of Cooperstown Ballcap Company (ballcap.com) ballcaps (way over two dozen, including the ones on order). But otherwise, not too terribly much. I have...

-1 Mizuno 150 Baseball used in an Industriales vs. Ciudad Habana Metros (I *THINK*...I'd have to doublecheck with my friend who got the ball in the first place). Signed by nine of the Industriales players.
-1 1968 New York Mets cap, signed by Ron Swoboda. Swoboda DID NOT wear it; my Dad said it was worn by one of the coaches and given to him by a friend.
-Paint from Shea Stadium. I took my fingernail and scratched off some paint from under my seat into a little vial when no one was looking in the 2008 season, before it all came down. Just to be clear, the Shea Stadium seats had metal bases that were painted but were otherwise plastic. THE LATTER is what I took the paint off of.

RuthMayBond

11-04-2008, 12:53 PM

-1 1968 New York Mets cap, signed by Ron Swoboda. Swoboda DID NOT wear it; my Dad said it was worn by one of the coaches and given to him by a friend.
A forty-year-old big league signed cap is awesome no matter WHO did or didn't wear it :bowdown::bowdown::bowdown::bowdown::bowdown:

Dalkowski110

11-04-2008, 12:55 PM

In theory, I could probably find out who wore it. All I'd need to do is find out who wore a size 7 on the 1968 Mets coaching staff.

howiek

11-04-2008, 02:27 PM

How's, Where and how? From an Official Company?
For the price, I'll take a pair or 2

Should this go here or in the personal collection area? (although we have cards that we own in this area). Just received a pair of big league game-used batting gloves of one of the Mets, from their official company.
Fourteen bucks :dance

nyyfan

11-04-2008, 06:10 PM

Well, I have a couple game used balls from Louisville Bats games.

topherkris

11-04-2008, 08:02 PM

Franceour tossed my girlfriend a batting glove but she didn't even reach out to grab it. I was pretty disappointed.

AutographCollector

11-04-2008, 09:14 PM

Well, I have a couple game used balls from Louisville Bats games.

I have game used baseballs from the Bowie Baysox & Southern Maryland BlueCrabs.

Gary Dunaier

11-04-2008, 09:15 PM

I have a magnetic "POTATO CHIPS" sign that I found on the floor at Shea Stadium in 2006, it must have fallen off one of the signs. And in 2008, during the final game as a matter of fact, I found loose magnetic numerals "6" and "4" on the floor, also outside a concession stand.

Who needs MeiGray????? :highfive:

RuthMayBond

11-05-2008, 06:33 AM

How's, Where and how? From an Official Company?
For the price, I'll take a pair or 2It's from the Mets official memorabilia company. It was an auction, so I can't buy as many as I want at that price, I just lucked out

ttmman21

11-05-2008, 12:31 PM

Game Ued balls from Baltimore Orioles, Southern Maryland Blue Crabs, Philadelphia Phillies and Bowie Baysox

Game used bat from Bowie Baysox

Captain Cold Nose

11-05-2008, 12:57 PM

My grandfather worked at Tiger Stadium as a concessionaire for 40+ years and he gave my brother and I one of Johnny Wockenfuss's bats.

I treasure it.

RuthMayBond

11-05-2008, 01:05 PM

My grandfather worked at Tiger Stadium as a concessionaire for 40+ years and he gave my brother and I one of Johnny Wockenfuss's bats.

I treasure it.If only he could have signed it in front of you

Gary Dunaier

11-05-2008, 01:19 PM

If only he could have signed it in front of you

Why would Captain Cold Nose want his grampa to sign Johnny Wockenfuss' bat?

:highfive:

nyyfan

11-05-2008, 05:32 PM

At one of the Louisville games, my friend had a chance to get a broken bat from Edwin Encarnacion. He broke it and brought back the pieces and tossed it above the dugout but somebody else got it.

Captain Cold Nose

11-06-2008, 04:38 AM

Why would Captain Cold Nose want his grampa to sign Johnny Wockenfuss' bat?

:highfive:

Dangit, Gary. I was going to ask him that. :highfive:

No signature, but there's pine tar on it. And that is his name engraved in the bat. If Wockenfuss ever does a public signing, I'll have it signed. But I'm not concerned with it.

RuthMayBond

11-06-2008, 06:17 AM

Why would Captain Cold Nose want his grampa to sign Johnny Wockenfuss' bat?

:highfive:Why do I have to be the straight guy all the time in this shtick? :banghead:

Gary Dunaier

11-06-2008, 06:59 AM

Why do I have to be the straight guy all the time in this shtick? :banghead:

Because my posts are funny. :party:

No signature, but there's pine tar on it. And that is his name engraved in the bat. If Wockenfuss ever does a public signing, I'll have it signed. But I'm not concerned with it.

I wouldn't get game-used stuff autographed. To me, once something has been used in a game it acquires an aura - it becomes "sacred," if you will - and an autograph would detract from that.

RuthMayBond

11-06-2008, 07:01 AM

Because my posts are funny. :party:If I wasn't so humor-challenged, I would have known that

<I wouldn't get game-used stuff autographed. To me, once something has been used in a game it acquires an aura - it becomes "sacred," if you will - and an autograph would detract from that.>

Perhaps, but I will hunt that Mets guy down

Captain Cold Nose

11-06-2008, 07:07 AM

Because my posts are funny. :party:

I wouldn't get game-used stuff autographed. To me, once something has been used in a game it acquires an aura - it becomes "sacred," if you will - and an autograph would detract from that.

Good point. If it wasn't autographed 25+ years ago when we got it, and it's still treasured, the autograph won't do anything for it. It's not an item that is about value to me.

RuthMayBond

11-06-2008, 07:16 AM

Good point. If it wasn't autographed 25+ years ago when we got it, and it's still treasured, the autograph won't do anything for it. It's not an item that is about value to me.I don't know much a Wockenfuss autograph is worth. It's still nice to meet a guy & tell him the story, and I've seen player's faces light up when someone shows them one of their GU equipment

Captain Cold Nose

11-06-2008, 07:19 AM

I don't know much a Wockenfuss autograph is worth. It's still nice to meet a guy & tell him the story, and I've seen player's faces light up when someone shows them one of their GU equipment

That's an excellent idea. :thumbsup: I probably won't get the bat signed, but I'm sure he'd like to hear how I got the bat, and he may even tell me something I don't know (which is pretty much everything but the very basic) about the actual day Wockenfuss passed the bat on.

If that day comes.

icee82

11-09-2008, 02:15 PM

I believe that players are always amused when a fan shows up with something that they have not seen in a long time or if ever or a piece of game used equipment. I have shown up at various events with pictures of a player that I actually took at some point in the past rather than the photo file pics that most people buy or have. They always ask questions. For instance last summer, I caught Danny Graves in Durham. I had a 12 X 18 photo of him pitching against the Yankees in Great American Ball Park back in the '02 season. He asked me about the photo and we talked for a few minutes about it. The same thing happened with a photo that I took of Todd Coffey and Homer Bailey of the Reds. Bailey is usually surly but he saw the print that I took and he quickly obliged me with his auto along with a personalization which was fine with me.