June 2017 Pickups

[Nnunnari]

Thanks Sean, cool Musial and Molina congrats.

[olegreg]

Added this to my collection not too long ago, Tommy Casanova's game used LSU helmet. Vintage LSU game used items, especially one of a significant player, are extremely difficult to find. It took me three months to acquire it. It was sitting on the shelf in a small restaurant in a small town. I frequented it and talked to the owners enough about it which eventually lead to me acquiring it from them. It was once owned by LSU's Heisman Trophy Winner Billy Cannon who had acquired it decades ago either from the LSU athletic dept while Casanova was playing at LSU, or from Casanova himself while he was playing at LSU. Cannon gave it to the restaurant owners as he had been to their restaurant and became friends with the owners and wanted them to have it on display with their other memorabilia.

It is sadly missing its face mask, which I have decided not to replace with a replica. The helmets rarity though makes this an afterthought. The padding has become detached as the glue had dried up, however it is present with the helmet and I would like to have it professionally reattached. Any help with who is reputable would be appreciated.

After I acquired it, I set out on a quest to attempt to photo-match it, however I knew my chances would be slim as the videos of games are not of good quality, and there are only so many photos to be found. I started searching the internet in every conceivable location, and then began looking through my collection of programs, media guides and wire photos. Then I found my helmet in an article about the equipment staff's preparation for away games in a 1971 LSU vs Florida program. It is a perfect match. I honestly couldn't believe that I was able to photo match it.

[gorilla777]

Couple of adds to my George Brett collection, a late 70's jacket and signed Pony spikes...

Ben

[gorilla777]

Steve Garvey '87 Padres bat - final career hit bat

[Masimen]

Great pickups Nick!

Added a couple of 3,000 hit guys to the collection.
'86 Yount & '77-'79 Carew. Both show nice use.

[seanbaseball]

Picked up a couple of tough to find reliever jerseys from 2011 WS

[skyking26]

1981 Home Dave Kingman game used jersey; Miedema LOA. Willing to trade the jersey for other Kingman's; particularly a Road Mets.

RK

[metman80]

Got back some game used pitcher hit balls....the non-David Wright portion of my collection

Robert Gsellman Signed/Inscribed Career Hit #2
Jacob deGrom Signed/Inscribed Career Hit #24
Jacob deGrom Signed/Inscribed Career Hit #30 (RBIs 9 & 10)
Jacob deGrom Signed/Inscribed Career Hit #31
Jacob deGrom Signed/Inscribed Career Hit #32

[JKD1991]

Ian Kinsler 2016 Jersey/bat from the same game. Jersey is Auth to 5 games ( Sept 9th, 11th, 12th, 14th, and 15th) bat was broke and Auth to Sept 14th. Kinsler was 8-20 wearing this jersey so good chance he used this bat for all 8 hits wearing the jersey.

[Nnunnari]

Picked up my first Ichiro bat. Numerous photo matches on Getty, Ichiro used this bat from 5/15/13-5/25/13 for career hits #2,636-2,641. MLB certified as broken on base hit against Matt Moore.
I am excited to find a bat definitively used by Ichiro during the regular season which can be pinpointed to a handful of hits. It was also nice to find an Ichiro with heavy use/ballmarks. If there are any Ichiro experts out there, I would love to hear more about his habits for cleaning his bats and/or rotating them out of play.