Lot 263. 50 Photos of Brooklyn Dodgers Including Vintage Wire Photos. This photos are primarily on 8” x 10” glossy photo stock. The earliest photo, from 1932, shows Hall of Fame outfielder Max Carey, the Brooklyn manager, instructing a group of young pitchers at spring training. Among them are Vickers, Mungo, Mattingly, Gallivan and Crider. This 8” x 10” Type 1 photo is ex with a chip in the upper right corner outside the image area. Tom Tatum and Tom Drake are sharply in focus in a 1941 7” x 9” photo from Wide World Photos, 1” edge tear, otherwise ex. An 8” x 10” Barney Stein 1944 photo shows Gil English, Luis Olmo, Gene Mauch and Howie Schultz, ex. The 18-year-old Mauch appeared in only 15 games with the Dodgers. Wire photos of the 1950s, all 8” x 10” with the caption, show Carl Erskine after recording his 20 th win with Roy Campanella and Wayne Belardi (1953, AP, ex); HoF manager Walt Alston, about to make his major league managerial debut, with Erskine (1954, AP, vg+ to ex), and Duke Snider, in the locker room after the Dodgers captured their first World Championship (1955, AP, ex). A 5” x 7” photo from the early 1950s depicts the Dodgers before a game at Ebbets Field; Campanella is clearly visible, ex. Three wire photos are 1970s facsimiles: 1971, Eddie Stanky, French Bordagaray, Rube Marquard, Van Lingle Mungo, Erskine and Babe Herman at a piano, vg+; 1972, Gil Hodges, Campanella, Jackie Robinson, Snider and Carl Furillo in a 1953 photo issued at Hodges’ death, ex; and 1973, Ralph Miller, who broke in with the Dodgers in 1898, at his passing. Among the reproduction photos, all 8” x 10”, are the 1941, 1942, 1949, 1952 and 1955 teams and an aerial of Ebbets Field; b&w photos of Furillo, Marquard, Hodges (2 different), Campanella, Reiser, Reese (2), Abrams (sepia), Snider (2 diff.), Drysdale, Alston, Durocher, Cadore, Grimes and Carey. There also are 8” x 10” photos of Campanella’s home run in the 1953 World Series and a composite with Podres, Campanella, Erskine, Snider, Hodges and Reese. Color repro photos show Roe and Podres; Reese; Snider, Hodges, Campanella and Furillo; Erskine; Snider, and Campanella. Also: Eight sepia lithographed 11” x 14” photos of Drysdale, Koufax, Campanella, Camilla, Robinson, Reiser, Campanella after hitting a home run, and Snider, Campanella, Reese and Snider. An 11” x 14” photo of the exterior of Ebbets Field. And an 11” x 14” color photo of the 1955 World Series Champions.
Winning Bid $138.
Lot 264. 8 Brooklyn Dodgers Pins, Including 1956 Topps, and a Koufax Money Clip. A 3 ½” pin from the 1960s features a b&w image of Don Drysdale against a light-blue background. Vg. Subjects of the Topps pins are Hodges vg+, Snider g+ to vg and Spooner vg. Koufax is pictured on a money clip that doubles as a pen knife, g+. There also are four 2 ½” flicker pins, one with Koufax, one with Drysdale and two that say “Dodgers Our Champs.”
Winning Bid $102.
Lot 272. Steve Yeager Professional Model Louisville Slugger T141 Mid-1980s Bat. Yeager spent his entire career, from 1972-86, with the Los Angeles Dodgers. His No. 7 is on the knob of the bat, which has a small crack and chip on the handle and shows rack marks and limited use.
Winning Bid $20.
Lot 292. Spike Lee Autograph on an OAL Budig Baseball. Mint ball and sweet spot signature, which is personalized to “Wilmer” (Fields). Joe Black, Negro League star and 1952 National League Rookie of the Year, signed the north panel. From the Wilmer Fields autograph collection. Authenticated by Kevin Keating.
Winning Bid $10.
