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Does anyone else collect old photos?

I saw this one on ebay - no it's not my auction, but I've bought a lot of my photos from him.

It's got to be one of the coolest pics I've seen, but it's going for more than I'd pay. Nonetheless, I thought I'd post it.

Mantle

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  • tennesseebankertennesseebanker Posts: 5,434 ✭✭✭
    Sweet pic and one I personally have never seen, Just look at that bat bend ! thanks for sharing.

    I guess in a way everyone here collects old photos.
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  • tennesseebankertennesseebanker Posts: 5,434 ✭✭✭
    I just looked at the back of the photo from the auction. It is dated Apr 14th 1957.

    Who's the guy outside the cage ????
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  • storm888storm888 Posts: 11,701 ✭✭✭
    It is a bit pricey.

    Would have been a great one to have signed.
    Folks Who Bite Get Bitten. Folks Who Don't Bite Get Eaten.
  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 31,585 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very nice!
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,449 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Gee Brian - I guess "old" is relative. image

    Great Mantle photo BTW!

    Now this is old:

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    And this one is Casey Stengel!!!!

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    The year this was taken, they were called the Brooklyn Robins

    Now I don't feel so old.

    mike
    Mike
  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 31,585 ✭✭✭✭✭
    This one is one of my favorites, I have yet to find one on Ebay. Any leads?


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  • nam812nam812 Posts: 10,600 ✭✭✭✭✭
    An interesting little story regarding Perk's picture:

    I met Johnny Podres at a show once a few years ago and he said that there was an advertisement on the wall in the outfield at Ebbets field saying something to the fact that if you hit this sign you'd get a free suit. He also said that the company whose sign it was would pay Duke Snider X amount of dollars (maybe 25 or 50 dollars if memory serves) for every ball he stopped from hitting that sign on a fly.
  • <Does anyone else collect old photos?

    I have an old photo personalized to me by Blaze Starr. Can't post it though, coz she ain't got nothin on in it.
  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 31,585 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>An interesting little story regarding Perk's picture:

    I met Johnny Podres at a show once a few years ago and he said that there was an advertisement on the wall in the outfield at Ebbets field saying something to the fact that if you hit this sign you'd get a free suit. He also said that the company whose sign it was would pay Duke Snider X amount of dollars (maybe 25 or 50 dollars if memory serves) for every ball he stopped from hitting that sign on a fly. >>



    Thanks Nick, cool info!
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,449 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>This one is one of my favorites, I have yet to find one on Ebay. Any leads?


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    Isn't that the HOF Cooperstown logo on the bottom?

    If so - why not go to their web and check out their store?

    mike

    edit: that's the Cooperstown Collection logo not the HOF - my bad. Who makes that stuff?
    Mike
  • nam812nam812 Posts: 10,600 ✭✭✭✭✭
    From the internet:

    A sign for Abe Stark's clothing store, placed directly under the Ebbets Field scoreboard in right-center field, told players "Hit Sign, Win Suit." Any player to hit the sign with a fly ball would get a free suit from Abe's store.

    The Brooklyn Dodgers and Ebbets Field and Abe's store are all long gone now, but "Hit Sign, Win Suit" is still remembered as one of New York's greatest business promotions.
  • stevekstevek Posts: 29,955 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I just looked at the back of the photo from the auction. It is dated Apr 14th 1957.

    Who's the guy outside the cage ???? >>




    Hank Bauer


    Thanks for the pic Brian - Very cool!


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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 31,585 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>This one is one of my favorites, I have yet to find one on Ebay. Any leads?


    image >>

    Isn't that the HOF Cooperstown logo on the bottom?

    If so - why not go to their web and check out their store?

    mike >>




    image Will do, thanks!
  • nam812nam812 Posts: 10,600 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,449 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Perky

    Did you check my edit?

    That's Cooperstown Collection - not the HOF - who makes that stuff anyways - might have to do a google on that one!

    Sorry
    mike
    Mike
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,449 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>image >>



    Nick - that's a great photo!

    I actually miss the days of the old ads that were neatly painted around the ball park.

    mike
    Mike


  • << <i>Gee Brian - I guess "old" is relative. image >>



    It certainly is; I saw some 1990's cards on ebay today described as "vintage" image

  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 31,585 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thanks Mike, just saw the edit!

    BTW-GREAT PHOTOS!!!!!!
  • Old is a relative term because my kids say I'm old and I'm only 43! Idon't think that old!


    Lou
    Collecting Roberto Clemente and Willie Stargell cards.
  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 31,585 ✭✭✭✭✭
    How about a nice litho photo?


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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 31,585 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 31,585 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Love this one!


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  • this oughta fetch a good price

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  • holy cow, someone really likes the first picture i posted - over $6,500!
  • AUPTAUPT Posts: 806 ✭✭✭
    I don't think that's Hank Bauer outside the cage; it looks more like Enos Slaughter.
  • bluemarlinbluemarlin Posts: 627 ✭✭✭
    Wow, That Mantle photo went for some good change,Now the question is what do you do with it?
    Hang it up in the living room image

    I think I would rather have that Gehrig photo.

    Jake
  • TNTonPMSTNTonPMS Posts: 2,279 ✭✭
    Nice pictures , Original pics go for big bucks , that would be a lot of money for me to spend on a pic, but if I could afford it , without being in the poor house , I would like to have that picture .

    I have never seen that picture before , it is amazing, I don't think I have ever saw a bat bend like that ,

    Thank you for posting , I'm definitely making a copy of that ,
  • TNTonPMSTNTonPMS Posts: 2,279 ✭✭


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    I wonder what store is @ 1514 pitkin ave now ?

    Is that 14 errors for St louis ?
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