October pick-ups

[sox83cubs84]

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Santo is one-of-a-kind...maybe not the most astute color commentator, but he and Pat Hughes are entertaining whether the Cubs are up 9-0 or down 9-0.
He belongs in Cooperstown...too bad the current members are so elitist about their fraternity.

Dave M.
Chicago area

[mskwarek]

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The "pickup" has been a work in progress, and hopefully the Cubs fans out there will get a kick out of it. On September 23, 1998 a fly ball off the bat of Geoff Jenkins was lofted to left field for the last out of the Cubs/Brewers game. Well.... thats not how it ended up. Brant Brown dropped the ball, and Ron Santo had his first "heart attack" in the radio booth - screaming NOOOO for what seemed like 10 minutes.

I picked up this 1998 Brant Brown gamer a year ago, had Santo sign it two months ago (added NOOOO) and Jeff did me a huge favor and was able to get Brant to sign it (and another Brown gamer) during a recent game in Winter ball.



Mike

[cruwet]

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2009 Red Sox road Jacoby Ellsbury cool base. MLB & Steiner auth.

[Fnazxc0114]

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seeing that tides stuff brings back some memories of my navy days.

Benny Agbayani game worn Tides cap and signed 1999 Mets pants.

These were given to me by one of the nicest guys here on the forum and in the Hawaiian islands, Ron (Islandstyle).

This is my first game used cap and baseball pants in my collection and I want to say "thank you Ron" for these rare Benny items.

Ron has given me the opportunity to purchase some really nice GU Benny items over the last few months and he is one classy gentleman as those of you who have dealt with him already know.

Thanks again Ron!

Bobby

[brianborsch]

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Being from Hawaii originally, I have a bias for this guy. He is also a pretty good ball player. If you need some walks, he is your man. With a little bit of power to match. I managed to pickup all 3 of Kila Ka'aihue's AAA GU Jerseys from this year. I also got his hat and game pants as well.

In a separate auction, I amanged to pickup a GU Royals jersey of Kila as well. Enjoy!

[cohibasmoker]

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Just picked up a couple of vintage Duke footaballs. The auction house and JSA calls both of them 1960 St. Louis Cardinals team signed footballs. They may be as they say but Bert Bell died in 1959 and Pete Rozelle took over in 1960.

1959 was the last year of the Chicago Cardinals and Bert Bell as Commissioner. In 1960, the Chicago Cardinals became the St. Louis Cardinals and Pete Rozelle was the new Commissioner. So, one football may be the last year of the Chicago Cardinals and the other the first year of the St. Louis Cardinals. Either way, there are terrific footballs.

The signatures are light so it's hard to pinpoint the year the footballs are actually from.

Jim

flaa1a@comcast.net

[cohibasmoker]

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Just picked up 13 Jeff Cross team-issued Miami Dolphins game balls and/or presentation footballs and some framed team-issued Dolphins and Pro-Bowl photographs. With the exception of 1 football, all of the bladders need to be replaced - which isn't that big of a deal.

Jim

flaa1a@comcast.net

[brianborsch]

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Just added this one to my Longoria collection. It's a team issued bat of Evan's from 2009. You can see the difference in signature brand compared to my issued WS bat of his from 2008. Enjoy!

[lehmsbobby]

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ya he seemed like a nice guy.

im a big vikings fan and yelled Koren to him and he winked back and said whats up

[LastingsMilledge85]

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There were a few nuts in the crowd some with no shirts in the cold weather. Everyone was in awe though when Koren Robinson made an attempt to one up David Tyree on best catches, he would have beaten him, if it was ruled a catch.

[lehmsbobby]

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yep. i was kinda disappointed by the crowd, probably only 2-3 thousand.

but they ended up getting into it by the third quarter, chanting at Dennis Green "We play to win the game!"

[LastingsMilledge85]

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He played tonight and didn't do too much. The attendance was very low for the game as I would have expected. The players were great to the fans, despite the sideline incident one player made indecent

[lehmsbobby]

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was surprised to see Simeon Rice playing in the league... and got to give him a fist bump

[lehmsbobby]

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Actually I was at the New York California game in San Francisco...

[LastingsMilledge85]

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Those UFL guys i really great..

I had the privilege of being on the sidelines during the game, and loved the atmosphere and the way the players threw their gloves to fans after the game...


Hope the league sticks

I enjoyed it as well, got tons of great close up pictures. However, I did catch one player actually urinating on the sidelines. Never before have I seen that before. Where you at tonight's game?