September 2017 Pickups

[gorilla777]

1999 Carlos Delgado bat -

A big 35/35 bat from a big year with the Blue Jays, 44 HR and 134 RBIs, the bat has pretty extreme barrel use on it.

[gorilla777]

1991 Ken Griffey Jr. bat -

An early Mariners bat that I had owned about 6 years ago, so employed the time tested sell low, buy high method...

[gorilla777]

1963 Bo Belinsky Los Angeles Angels home flannel:

The jersey is in great, all-original shape, from a team and era that is tough to find. It has direct provenance from a former Los Angeles/California Angels clubhouse employee and lifelong friend of Bo's.
Belinsky had quite a life - a background of growing up poor, finding success as a pool hustler, then in baseball gaining reputation as a wild partier in the minors, outweighing his tremendous stuff. He finally got his first big shot with the expansion Angels, who drafted him from the Orioles roster. As a rookie, he threw the first no-hitter in MLB in the state of California (against his old team, Baltimore) and truly gained instant celebrity status as a man about town. He was more well known for dating actresses like Mamie Van Doren, Ursula Andress (Bond girl), Ann Margret, Connie Francis and Tina Louise (yes, Ginger). He later married a Playmate of the Year, divorced, then married and divorced the Weyerhaeuser paper heiress. His time with the Angels more or less ended when he had a hotel room fight with an elderly LA Times sportswriter. The story was the writer came by the hotel inebriated in the middle of the night and challenged Bo to a fight and so, Belinsky threw a glass of water in his face, punches were thrown and they found the writer unconscious with blood coming out his ear. The writer was tight with the Angels GM, so Bo was traded, he bounced around baseball and just flamed out. He battled severe substance abuse for years, then got clean and sober and became a counselor against alcoholism in his later years. In SoCal baseball, he was a cautionary tale about untapped potential, the million dollar arm, ten cent head type of story.

[jsage]

Ben -
1963 Bo Belinsky Jersey
Was the provenance - Bob Case?
Jerry Sage

[Nnunnari]

Awesome Belinsky jersey Ben.

[sox83cubs84]

Great find, Ben.

Dave Miedema

[gorilla777]

Thanks, both of you

[seanbaseball]

Picked up Yadier Molinas 2006 WBC game used mask. This was his first WBC event. Now have an All Star, WS, and WBC.......that should finish the set!

[GoCrazyFolks76]

Picked up Yadier Molinas 2006 WBC game used mask. This was his first WBC event. Now have an All Star, WS, and WBC.......that should finish the set!

Did you really just say "That should finish the set"?

Ye of so little insight.

Very nice pickup!

[Nnunnari]

Killer collection Sean, those are amazing.