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Kansas City A’s Official Guide for Press – Radio – TV (1959)
For nostalgic fans of the long-gone-to-Oakland Kansas City Athletics baseball team, this well-loved and marked-up 1959 guidebook. If you were a young kid there in those days, you hung on every statistic. Grade: 4
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Harlem Globetrotters 33rd Season (USA)
Dated 1959, a 23-page booklet (Official Souvenir Program) covering many aspects of the Harlem Globetrotters’ 33rd season. Grade: 1
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Kansas City Athletics Official 1955 Scorebook
The oldest of what we have here, used at a game, and over the years has developed tears on the back cover along with extra writing. No mistaking its “rugged” condition but the pages are there and you’ll enjoy the commentary and the ads too. Grade: 4
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Kansas City Athletics Official 1956 Score Book
Used as a youngster would to try to follow the game, then tucked away for so many years. Grade: 2
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1957 Baseball Handbook and Schedules (USA)
In 1957, International News Service compiled and published, and The Kansas City Star newspaper distributed this marvelous little handbook of all teams’ schedules, players, and other statistics. It also includes some minor league. This is a terrific historical artifact for that year. Grade: 1
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Kansas City Athletics Official 1958 Scorebooks (2)
Used, in exactly the way a young boy would have tied to keep score as the two games progressed. One is signed by player Dick Tomanek and one by George Susce (we assume the coach, George Sr.) but the signatures in pencil are mostly faded. These are just relics of the Kansas City A’s short baseball history. It’s a set of two pieces. Grades: 2
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Kansas City Athletics Official 1958 Year Book
Intact. Grade: 1
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Grand Forks Chiefs 1956 Baseball Programs (2) (North Dakota, USA)
The Grand Forks Chiefs were a minor league baseball team from Grand Forks, North Dakota. They played in the Northern League from 1934 to 1964, with breaks in between, after Grand Forks had hosted two previous teams. The Chiefs were a minor league affiliate of many major league teams, but in 1956 (at the time of these two scorecards) it was the Pittsburgh Pirates (1956–1962). The Chiefs played at home games at the Grand Forks Municipal Ballpark, which today is the site of the Central Fire Station. And we were there, and it absolutely did not matter that this was the most minor of minor league clubs. It was a big thing to be able to go to a game, and get autographs (see especially our next entry for 1957), and hang out. So, for 1956, here are two programs, in generally awful condition, but one should not expect otherwise. The price is for both. Grade: 4
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Grand Forks/East Grand Forks 1957 Chiefs Baseball Programs (6)
See our entry 50000117 for the basic history, and move forward one year. In that entry we failed to mention that Grand Forks (in North Dakota) adjoins the much smaller East Grand Forks (Minnesota) so it was logical for the team to acknowledge both towns. Here’s a group of six 1957 programs, heavily autographed as we became bolder about asking — and also, probably, a more familiar presence to the players. For the cost of these booklets, you can get hours of enjoyment Googling to discover where they all wound up. For the set of six, Grade: 3
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Los Angeles Dodgers 1960 Souvenir Year Book
You can find this nice vintage item on eBay for a much higher price, or you can get it from us. Grade: 1
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Los Angeles Dodgers 1960 Score Card
Imagine that you were a youngster and you want to the game, got the score card, did your best to keep score in pencil inside, and along the way you got one autograph, of a player named Joe Christopher. Imagine that autograph fading to near-invisibility on the front cover, but actually becoming visible again when your computer enlarges the photo. And then you tucked this score card away for 60 years until it resurfaced. That’s this. Grade: 2
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Meet the Dodger Family (group of three pamphlets)
Sorry for the chaotic scan but here are three different entries (Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax, Duke Snider) from the 1960 Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team. It’s a group of three pamphlets, abut 12-14 pages each, some extra marks here and there but generally good. Published in collaboration with Union Oil 76. Grades: 3
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NFL Illustrated: Los Angeles Rams vs. Chicago Bears
… in Los Angeles on 23 September 1962, a 38-page programme for the game, marred only by an aging piece of tape on the back cover. Grade: 3
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чемпионат мира по хоккею москва 1986 – pin set (USSR)
“чемпионат мира по хоккею москва” was the 1986 Ice Hockey World Championship in Moscow, and you might guess who won. Here’s an original set of seven unused pins in their cardboard container. Grade: 1
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Памятные сувенир чемпионат мира – Moscow 1989 World Championship Pin Set
“Памятные сувенир чемпионат мира” means “Moscow 1989 World Championship Commemorative Souvenir” and this is a full set of seven unused pins — two large, five smaller — in their original cardboard container. The box is of course aging but intact, and the pins are basically as new. Grade: 1
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Del Mar Race Track (California) – ticket
Imagine a sunny August day in 1961, going to the horse races at Del Mar, near San Diego, and buying a ticket for the Daily Double. And then losing. Big hopes for about half an hour. Grade: 1
