Lot 80. 1953 View-Master Baseball Set, 2 Player Booklets and a View-Master Stereoscope. Before 3-D televisions, View-Master offered three-dimensional images through circular reels and a viewer. In 1953, View-Master issued a set of three baseball reels, which we are pleased to offer. Each reel was accompanied by a booklet with brief player profiles and recent and career statistics. Two of the booklets are present, for Reel No. 725 and 726. Reel 725 has color images of Al Rosen, Phil Rizzuto, Jackie Jenson, Preacher Roe, Whitey Lockman, Minnie Minoso and Yogi Berra. Players on Reel 726 are Johnny Mize, Bob Lemon, Al Schoendienst, Ferris Fain, Monte Irvin, Bobby Shantz and Sid Gordon. Stars of Reel 727 are Bobby Thomson, Grady Hatton, Vic Wertz, Mel Parnell, Gene Woodling, Sal Maglie and Roy Campanella. Of the 21 players, seven are in the Hall of Fame. The reels average ex with 3-D images free or problems. The stereoscope is in its original box.
Winning Bid $75.
Lot 108. Circa 1939 Broadside – Lima-Ohio Colored All Stars vs. White All Stars. The 17” x 26” red on beige broadside is for an 8:30 p.m. game on Tuesday, Aug. 22 “Under Lights” at “Ohio State League Halloran Park” between the “Best Colored Players from Toledo, Ft. Wayne, Detroit and Other Leading Cities” and the “Pick of Best Players from Northwestern Ohio Semi-Pro Teams.” The year is not provided. Given that major league baseball introduced night games in 1935, 1939 seems reasonable. Based on Aug. 22 being a Tuesday, 1933 and 1944 are also reasonable possibilities. Exhibition games between black and white teams were relatively common during this period. The broadside, which has creases along the edges, displays well. Two devices for hanging it are stuck to the back. Another copy of this poster was included in the Hall of Fame’s “Baseball as America” tour.
Winning Bid $472.
Lot 170. 4 Mickey Mantle Cards – 1954 Bowman, 1957 Topps, Etc. – All Graded by PSA. Lower grade collection with 1954 Bowman #65 and 1957 #95 both graded PR 1; 1958 Topps #487 All Star PSA-graded GOOD 2 (MK); 1961 Topps #44 A.L. Home Run Leaders graded PR 1; and 1968 Topps #490 Super Stars with Mantle, Mays and Killebrew PSA-graded FR 1.5. Significant variations exist among the cards graded poor. It’s not difficult to imagine the 1957 Topps card being graded higher. We’ve seen cards similar to the 1954 Bowman graded fair. The 1961 Topps card has a vg appearance and a pin hole.
Winning Bid $138.
Lot 171. Original Oil on Canvas 8” x 10” Portrait of Joe DeMaestri by Andy Jurinko. Jurinko was as highly regarded as he was prolific. In the 1990s, he undertook the “Jurinko Project” to paint the portraits of more than 600 1950s-60s baseball players. Completed in 1997, this original portrait of DeMaestri is one of them. In 1957, DeMaestri was an All-Star at shortstop for the Kansas City A’s. His portrait is nm-m and framed. Jurinko’s portraits were published in 2012 in “Golden Boys: Baseball Portraits, 1946-1960.” The artist passed away in 2011.
Winning Bid $61.
Lot 172. Eddie Joost Original 1997 Oil on Canvas 8” x 10” Portrait by Andy Jurinko. An infielder for the Philadelphia A’s from 1947-54, Joost was a two-time All-Star who garnered MVP votes in four seasons. In 17 seasons, he played also for the Reds, Boston Braves and Red Sox. Jurinko painted Joost’s image as part of his “Jurinko Project,” involving the creation of more than 600 baseball portraits. Jurinko died in 2011. His portraits were published in 2012 in “Golden Boys: Baseball Portraits, 1946-1960.” The portrait is nm-m and framed. Jurinko prints sell for hundreds of dollars. This is an original!
Winning Bid $138.
Lot 173. 1997 Original Oil Painting of Suitcase Simpson by Andy Jurinko. In the 1990s, Jurinko embarked upon a project to paint the images of more than 600 baseball players from an era that he loved, the 1950s and 1960s. What he called the “Jurinko Project” culminated in the posthumous publication of the portraits last year in the coffee table book “Golden Boys: Baseball Portraits, 1946-1960.” Jurinko died in 2011. The 8” x 10” portrait of Simpson is nm-m and framed. Harry “Suitcase” Simpson was a well traveled outfielder and first baseman. In eight seasons, he played for five teams and found himself in a Kansas City Athletics uniform from 1955-59, with a break in 1957-58 to play for the Yankees.
Winning Bid $92.
Lot 174. Andy Jurinko’s Original 1997 Oil on Canvas Portrait of Carl Scheib. Playing for Philadelphia from 1943-45 and again from 1947-54, Scheib was one of the best-hitting pitchers in baseball. In 1951, he batted .396. He won 14 games in 1948 and 11 in 1952. Jurinko, who died in 2011, painted Scheib’s portrait as part of a project to create portraits of more than 600 baseball players from the 1950s and 1960s. The 8” x 10” Scheib portrait is nm-m and framed. The portraits were published last year in “Golden Boys: Baseball Portraits, 1946-1960.”
Winning Bid $50.
Lot 175. Pete Suder 1997 Original Oil on Canvas Painting by Andy Jurinko. More than a decade ago, premier sports artist Andy Jurinko launched a project to paint the portraits of stars and journeyman from what he considered to be baseball’s Golden Era, 1946-60. Jurinko passed away in 2011. A coffee table book presenting his portraits was published last year. It’s titled “Golden Boys: Baseball Portraits, 1946-1960.” This 8” x 10” portrait of Suder is one of more than 600 he painted. Suder played the infield for the Philadelphia A’s from 1941-54. Nm-m and ready for display.
Winning Bid $83.
Lot 176. Andy Jurinko 1997 Original 8” x 10” Oil Painting of Elmer Valo. Valo’s bat kept him in the majors for 20 seasons, 13 with the Philadelphia A’s and two more with the team in Kansas City. The original oil painting is framed for display. Jurinko painted the portrait as part of a project to captures the images of more than 600 stars of the 1950s-60s. The portraits are used in his 2012 book, “Golden Boys: Baseball Portraits, 1946-1960,” published posthumously. Jurinko died in 2011. The Valo portrait is nm-m and framed.
Winning Bid $102.
Lot 185. 3 Vintage Walter Camp Books Including a “Captain Danny” First Edition. By the time he was 33, Camp was already known as the “Father of Football.” He played at Yale and then coached there and at Stanford. In addition to his full-time job, Camp wrote articles and books, primarily on football. Published in 1914 by D. Appleton and Company, “Captain Danny” is one of Camp’s rare baseball novels. This copy is vg. The binding is firm. The paste-down illustration on the cover shows some soiling, and the book has minor stains along the edges of a number of pages. Stampings on the spine are faded. The two other Camp books, both non-fiction, are: “Athletes All: Training, Organization, and Play,” a 1919 first edition published by Charles Scribner’s Sons, vg+ to ex, no dust jacket. And “The Book of Sports and Games,” 1923, ex with illustrated boards. These books represent very desirable additions to a sports library.
Minimum Bid $95.
Lot 198. Impressive Rochester Baseball Trophy Awarded to Luke Easter. This very impressive Jaycees Youth Trophy, which reaches a height of 3 feet, 2.5 inches, was awarded to Easter from 1961 through 1963 for “Inspiration to the City’s Youth.” A first baseman and then coach for the International League Rochester Red Wings from 1959-64, Easter was beloved by Rochester fans. He was 49 when he retired there. This trophy is a stunning and appropriate memento associated with Easter’s career. Bill James has rated him as the second-best Negro Leagues’ first baseman of all time, with only Buck Leonard rating higher. He might have been a major league superstar slugger, but he was 32 by the time the majors’ color barrier began to crumble. After a couple of excellent years with Cleveland, bad knees ended his major league career. After Cleveland, he enjoyed an impressive minor league career. Joe Altobelli, a teammate of Easter’s in Rochester, said he never heard the big first baseman complain about the circumstances that limited his time in the majors. According to Altobelli, Easter was “a jovial guy. He was just good to be around. The fans loved him for that. He looked at life in a positive way and he was thankful to be a baseball player and thankful he could hit a baseball a long way.” Easter was killed in a robbery in Cleveland in 1979. Bob Lemon and Al Rosen were honorary pallbearers at his funeral. Easter is recognized on a brass plate on the base of the trophy, which is ex. A plate on the trophy also recognizes the Red Wings; Charlie James, who received the Jaycees’ award in 1960. An outfielder, James played for the Red Wings in 1959 and 1960 before having a six-season major league career with St. Louis and Cincinnati.
Winning Bid $110.
Lot 199. Early 1900s 9” Baseball Challenge Trophy Cup by Manning Bowman & Co. This impressive trophy memorializes winners of the Pittsburgh Wholesale Lumber Dealers Association Baseball Challenge in 1902, 1903 and 1904. Babcock earned the cup in 1902; Hastings in June 1903 and the Alex Williams team in September; and the American Lumber and Mfg. Co.’s in 1904. Silverplated, the cup itself is 8 5/8” tall, and the trophy reaches a height of 9 ¼” at the handles. While its luster is gone, the trophy cups shows no abuse and serves as an attention-grabber.
Winning Bid $50.
Lot 230. Extremely Rare 1929 Chicago Cubs “Champions 1929” Team Photo Pin. With Joe McCarthy as the manager and players such as Hornsby, Cuyler, Bush, Hartnett, Wilson, English, Grimm, Malone, Root and Stephenson, these Cubs dominated the National League. The elliptical pin issued to celebrate their success is 2.75” across and 1.75” high. With the expected rust on the back, it is centered to the right as issued and ex-m. It’s a high-quality example of a pin that turns up very infrequently.
Winning Bid $242.
Lot 231. Circa 1900 A. G. Spalding & Bros. 33” Wagon Tongue Bat. Heavy-duty specimen, No. 3/0. It is vg to vg-ex with a crack toward the knob, which has been repaired with three vintage nails in the knob. The bat handle has a circumference of 4.75”, and the barrel, 7.75”. Nice vintage display item and conversation piece.
Winning Bid $218.
Lot 232. Early 1900s Baseball 5.75” Plate from Beamish Glassware Co. Located in Kansas City, Beamish was a distributor of Maddock’s American China, apparently from the 1870s through 1918. The front of the plate is decorated with crossed bats above a plate, a baseball, and two players on either side of a baseball diamond that has an animal head and a stylized “S” within the diamond. The animal has been described as a tiger and a bear. We can’t help wondering if the plate has a Chicago connection. In any case, the heart of the plate shows wear, while the graphics remain strong. The distributor’s name is printed on the back of the plate, and the manufacturer’s name is impressed.
Winning Bid $40.
