Lot 315. 4 1910s M101-2 “Sporting News” Supplements with Pittsburgh Pirates – Fred Clarke, Etc. Printed on very thin and somewhat brittle paper, these supplements look much better than the grades indicated: Fred Clarke, Oct. 7, 1909, horizontal strip of tape across the blank back, p. Chas. B. (Babe) Adams, Jan. 20, 1910, f. George Gibson of Pittsburgh and Arthur Raymond of New York, March 10, 1910, g. And Martin J. O’Toole and Wm. Kelly, Oct. 26, 1911, f.
Winning Bid $66.
Lot 325. 1927 W560 Card of Lloyd Waner. This card was neatly trimmed from its neighbors on the sheet and measures the standard 1.75” x 2.75”. The red line separating the cards shows on three sides. Ex.
Winning Bid $30.
Lot 330. 2 1936 R312 Premiums Featuring Pirates – Wagner, Traynor and Vaughan. Honus Wagner and Floyd (Arky) Vaughan are the subjects of one premium, while Pittsburgh Pie Traynor is in the other with the Chicago Cubs’ Augie Galan. These R312 cards are double-matted for display and framed to 8.75” x 10.75”. Technically, the cards grade f-g. As framed, their appearance is vg-ex to ex+.
Minimum Bid $50.
Lot 349. 53 1950s-70s Pittsburgh Pirates Cards Including Mazeroski’s 1964 Topps Stand-Up. Twenty-eight different 1957-70 cards, all but one from Topps. Among them are 1958 #238 Maz vg; 1960 #115 Face & Wilhelm (3), one ex and two vg-ex; 1961 #312 Mazeroski’s W.S. Home Run (3), one ex+, one vg and one p; 1961 Nu Card Scoops #413 Groat p-f; 1964 Stand-Up Mazeroski vg; and 1966 #99 Buc Belters with Stargell ex+ and 210 Maz ex+. Other cards in this group average vg-ex.
Winning Bid $30.
Lot 415. Jay Publishing 1961 Pittsburgh Pirates Unopened Picture Pack. The pack carries a 1961 copyright, but we believe the checklist to be consistent with the 1962 pack as well: Danny Murtaugh, Dick Groat, Roy Face, Bill Mazeroski, Bob Friend, Vern Law, Bob Skinner, Bill Virdon, Roberto Clemente, Dick Stuart, Don Hoak and Smokey Burgess. Nm to nm-m.
Winning Bid $35.
Lot 423. 40 Pittsburgh Pirates 1950s-60 Jay Publishing Photos: Clemente, Maz, Stargell, Etc. Includes Bailey, Burgess, Clemente vg-ex, Face (three different), Foiles, Friend (6, five different), Groat, Hoak (3, two different), Kluszewski vg+, Law (2); Mazeroski (3, two different), one vg+, one vg and one g; Murtaugh (6, four different), Skinner (three different), Stargell ex, Stuart, Veale and Virdon (5, four different). Ungraded photos average vg-ex to ex.
Winning Bid $55.
Lot 469. George Gibson Autograph on a George Burke Vintage 8” x 9.75” B&W Photo. Gibson caught for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1905-16 and had two terms as the team’s manager, 1920-22 and 1932-34. He helped the team to win the 1909 World Series against Ty Cobb and the Detroit Tigers. Born in Canada, he is a member of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame. He died in 1967. Gibson’s personalized autograph is nm 7 to nm-m 8. Below it, he added “Pittsburgh Pirates” and his tenure with the team. The photo is superb, and the autograph, large, distinctive and authenticated by Kevin Keating. A letter signed by Mrs. Sugar is included; it verifies that this item is from Bert Sugar’s collection.
Winning Bid $125.
Lot 686. 4 Panoramic Photos of the 1909 Pittsburgh-Detroit World Series in The Index. Billed as “Pittsburgh’s Illustrated Weekly,” The Index provides World Series scenes from Pittsburgh and Detroit in its Oct. 18 issue. The front and back covers provide a 15 ¾” x 21 ½” Forbes Field crowd scene. A two-page center spread has panoramic photos of a game at Forbes Field on Oct. 8, a photo of fans leaving Forbes Field on Oct. 9 and a panoramic view of an Oct. 11 game at Detroit’s Bennett Park. The teams split the Pittsburgh games, and the Pirates won the Bennett Park game. This Series featured two greats of the game, Ty Cobb and Honus Wagner. Wagner batted .333, and Cobb, .231. But the top players of the Series were Pittsburgh’s Tommy Leach, who batted .360 and scored eight times, and Babe Adams, who allowed only four earned runs while pitching three complete games. The front and back covers of The Index have tears and chips and grade g. Measuring 15.75” x 21.25”, the two-page spread is vg-ex with stains on the top two edges and “55” written on the right page. The interior is much better than the covers.
Winning Bid $68.
Lot 687. Pittsburgh Pirates Ticket Stubs for a July 4, 1921 Doubleheader. Pittsburgh split the two games with St. Louis, winning the first, 5-2, and dropping the second, 6-3. Rogers Hornsby had six hits in the two games, including a two doubles and two triples. He batted .397 for the season. The stubs, one marked “AM” and the other, “PM,” are rain checks neatly separated from the remainder of the ticket. The ticket for the first game is g+ to vg, and the second, vg+.
Winning Bid $40.
Lot 688. 5 Pie Traynor Collectibles Including a Money Clip, a Photo and 3 Vintage Baseball Cards. The money clip, which is ex, is engraved with Traynor’s name, “Solomon Lodge No. 231” and “1-5-67.” No. 231 is a Freemason Lodge in Pittsburgh. Traynor is in uniform in a vintage 3.5” x 3.5” b&w photo on a 5” x 5” mount. Vg-ex. The cards are: 1925-31 Postcard Back Exhibit, g-vg; 1929 R316 Kashin, framed to 6” x 8”, vg-ex appearance as framed; and 1936 R311 Glossy Finish, vg+. Traynor was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1948.
Winning Bid $85.
