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150+ 1902-67 Newspaper Articles, Ads, Comics – Ruth, Lajoie, Wagner, Etc.!
Lot 118. 150+ 1902-67 Newspaper Articles, Ads, Comics – Ruth, Lajoie, Wagner, Etc.! Average size of newspapers is 17 ½” x 22 ½” with some ads from smaller magazines. Newspapers include The New York Times, The Milwaukee Sentene, The Oregonian, The Galveston Daily News, The Detroit News, The Evening Wisconsin, The Chicago Daily tribune, The Albuquerque Herald, The New York American and The Milwaukee Journal. All are poly bagged. 1-117. 117 single newspaper pages with baseball headlines; dates range from 1902-42 with a concentration in the early 1930s. Names include Dizzy Dean, John McGraw, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Carl Hubell, Hank Greenberg, Mel Ott, Connie Mack, Frankie Frisch, Lefty Gomez, Al Simmons, “Red” Ruffing, Roy Campanella, Stan Musial, Lefty Grove, Ed Walsh, Cy Young and Rogers Hornsby. Early teams like the Omahas, Blue Stockings, Millionaires and Pirates are also featured. Outstanding headlines: 118. May 11, 1902 “Lajoie to be a Tiger.” 119. April 8, 1912 Christy Mathewson, Otis Crandall, Rube Marquard, Giants headline and photo. 120. May 10, 1912 “Georgia Peach, one of the ‘400’ who Batted Perfect Yesterday” with photo. 121. June 13, 1912 “Rube Marquard, Who Pitched Thirteenth Straight Victory.” Also on this page is a one-line reference to “a new phenom, James Thorpe of Carlisle.” 122. June 14, 1912 “Walter Johnson, Star Twirler of the Washington Ball Team.” 123. June 8, 1923 “Honus Wagner’s Two Records…All That Remain Between Ty Cobb and Absolute Baseball Supremacy” with graphics. 124. Aug. 22, 1931 “Yanks Win, Ruth Driving 600th Homer.” 125. Aug. 5, 1934 “Weary and Ill, Stripped of Fortune, Billy Sunday Fights On,” full-color Detroit News front page. 126. Feb. 20, 1935 “Lou Gehrig Signs Contract with New York Yankees.” 127. Feb. 27, 1935 “Babe Ruth Signs Boston Contract.” 128. Feb. 3, 1936 “Georgia Peach Rated Leading Baseball Immortal: Entered the Portals of Diamond Game’s Hall of Fame.” 129. Dec. 2, 1936 “Negotiations for Dizzy Dean High Point of Trade Talk at Montreal Meeting.” 130. Dec. 11, 1936 “Feller Stays with Indians under Landis Decision, Averting Baseball Crisis.” 131. Sept. 30, 1942 “The Cast in Today’s World Series Opener,” including photos. 132. “Babe Ruth, Swat King, Dies at 53.” Front cover article of The Oregonian, Portland, Oregon, Tuesday, August 17, 1948. Photo pages: 133-140. Eight different sports photo sections or single pages that span 1916-1941, including Babe Ruth, Bob Feller, Lou Gehrig, Connie Mack, Tris Speaker and a shot of the 1916 Yankee team. 141. May 9, 1948 “New York Giants – Power Package,” two-page vertical color photo spread. 142. two-page photo spread “Why Sears signed Ted Williams – as a playing manager.” Advertising, 143-153: Eleven b & w newspaper pages with significant baseball advertising for Camels, Huskies, Rheingold and White Owl including: “The Tigers ‘Big Four’ Pitchers,” Charlie Grimm, Leo Durocher, 1933 World Champ Giants, great Crackerjack jingle and Chesterfields advertisement, Gabby Hartnett, Lou Gehrig, John McGraw for the Sunday Sentinel. 154-163. Ten 1950s color comics, 7 of which include advertisements with Johnny Logan, Curt Simmons, Frank Malzone, Jackie Jensen, Fred Haney, Red Schoendienst and a comic called “Captain Tootsie and the Babe Ruth Story,” with William Bendix as he appears in The Babe Ruth Story. 164. 1949 two-page Chesterfield color ad with Joe DiMaggio and Lou Boudreau. 165. 1952 Bob Feller Wheaties ad, two-page color. 166. 1960s Viceroy two-page color ad with Mickey Mantle. 167. 1967 two-page color contest entry with Mickey Mantle. Vg-ex to ex overall.
Winning Bid $218.
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