Lot # 3: Boston Post Old-Timer's Game Scrapbook

Category: Featured Items

Starting Bid: $100.00

Bids: 2 (Bid History)

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Item was in Auction "Winter, 2016 Premier Auction",
which ran from 1/12/2016 6:00 AM to
1/31/2016 10:30 AM



Often while researching items that are featured in our auction we are fortunate enough to receive input from collectors who specialize in a given area of the hobby or who have acquired pieces related to an item in our auction. Such is the case here. While researching the participants of the 1930 Boston Post old-timer's game we received a note from a good friend and member of the hobby message board community who had a unique item in his collection: a scrapbook containing a host of Boston Post articles pertaining to the game! We were able to use the articles from the scrapbook to fill in some of the blank spaces in our narrative particularly with respect to the hype surrounding the game as well as information about the players who either attended or were expected to. Boston Post articles are difficult to track down since the archives are not readily available online and since the event was promoted by the Post not many articles covering the game appeared in rival papers. This is part of the reason why so many details surrounding the game had been lost to history. Our friend's generosity with information from the scrapbook along with his subsequent decision to consign the piece so that it could be potentially paired with other items from the game has helped rescue the tale of this game from being forgotten. The scrapbook itself once diligently assembled has seen better days from a condition standpoint; the pages have separated from the spine and the entire piece suffers from age-related toning typical of this sort of paper. However in this case it is not the condition of the piece that is important but the content; a complete chronicle of the lead-up to the game including biographical information on its participants information about the game itself and a host of incredibly valuable information. Rarely does one encounter an entire scrapbook pertaining to one game; that this scrapbook was assembled in 1930 and extols the virtues of the game's pioneers further reinforces the fact that baseball fans have always revered the "good old days."

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