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NEWSLETTER |
January 2023 |
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Collecting Baseball History With
Tickets & Stubs |
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Steven KeyMan |
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By Steven KeyMan |
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Founder of
Keymancollectibles.com,
and a long time
collector, Steven
KeyMan has more than 30
years of experience in
researching, and
cataloging information
on Baseball
Memorabilia.
Researching his own personal
collection, and helping others find
information on their
collectibles, the
website grew into the
largest online resource
for baseball
memorabilia |
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Ask
Steven: Direct your questions or feedback,
about Baseball Memorabilia to Steven KeyMan
Steve@keymancollectibles.com You can also Send
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Baseball
tickets
and stubs bare
witness to a game of note. They allow
admission to personal memories, or historic
events. Connect us to the
milestones and accomplishments of
players we idolize. A ticket to our
first baseball game, a win by a
pitcher with 300 career wins, or any
one of Hank Aaron's home runs, are all
documented by a ticket that was at
the game.
This is a ticket stub from the first
game played at
Shibe Park on April 12, 1909,
between the American League Base Ball
Club, Philadelphia Athletics and the
Boston Red Sox. Hall Od Fame pitcher
Eddie Plank won the game recording his
301st game of his career.
Shibe Park became baseball's first steel-and-concrete stadium. This rain
check was for the bleachers, and if the
game would have been rained out it
could have been used for any game
during the regular season.
During the early years, when the
American League merged with the
National League to form Major League
baseball, from about 1901 to 1915,
complimentary ticket books were used as
a promotion, to help attract fans to
the ballpark.
This 1912 season complimentary ticket book was printed for the Greater New
York Base Ball Club, the Highlanders of
the American League. It was the final
season for the Highlanders, before
being named the New York Yankees the
following year in 1913. It was also
their final season playing their home
games at Hilltop Park, moving the
franchise to the Polo Grounds in 1914.
Game ticket 19, May 15, 1912, Ty Cobb beat up a New York fan which would
later lead to the first Baseball Player
Strike, and the use of "Replacement
players."
Ticket from the last World Series the
Red Sox would win for 86 years,
until 2004, when the "The Curse of the
Bambino" was lifted. The Babe did
pitch, and won, in Games 1 & 4, and
those ticket stubs sell at a premium.
The Series was held early in September because of the World War I "Work or
Fight" order that forced the premature
end of the regular season on September
2, and remains the only World Series to
be played entirely in September. The
Series was marred by players
threatening to strike due to low gate
receipts.
Game 3 was played to a crowd of 27,054, on Sept. 7, 1918 at Comisky Park.
The Red Sox won the game 2-1, and took
the World Series in 6 games (4-2)
The Boston American was a daily tabloid
newspaper published by Hearst Press, in
Boston, Massachusetts, from 1904-1961.
The newspaper's pressrooms were located
at 5 Winthrop Square in 1921. In a
1920s newspaper lottery promotion,
"Hearst's Boston American," issued these serial numbered
1.25 by 2 inch cards to patrons.
When your serial number was published in the sports section, you won a
free ticket to a Boston Red Sox or
Braves home game. in 1954, another
Hearst newspaper publication, The New
York Journal American, held a similar
lottery contest. The paper issued 2 by
4 inch
baseball cards picturing stars
of the New York Giant, Yankees, and the
Brooklyn Dodgers. As with the 1920s
Boston American lottery, a six-digit
serial number was printed at the
bottom. If your player and numbers
appeared in the Journal American, you
won $200.00. The paper gave away $1,000
in cash daily for Lucky baseball cards. accomplishments.
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Known as the Black Sox scandal
in 1919, a conspiracy to fix the 1919
World Series, Chicago White Sox players
conspired with gamblers to throw games.
Newly appointed baseball commissioner
Kenesaw Mountain Landis, posted strict
rules prohibiting gambling. Part of the
fallout in the years to follow was the
Chicago White Sox printing a warning
about gambling on the ball grounds, on
the back of rain check ticket stubs,
from 1920-1948.
 This "First Game
Played at Yankee Stadium" V.I.P. ticket
stub is attributed to the Opening Day
game played on April 18, 1929. The
scheduled April 16 home opener was
postponed because of rain.
Home game No. 2, April 17, was also washed away. It was reported that the
rain might end by game time but the
field at the stadium was too soggy. The
"V.I.P" ticket was issued by Jacob
Ruppert, to showcase the New York
Yankees to potential advertisers,
businessmen or clients for season box
seats. The ticket was issued as a
formal invite, and was honored for the
"first game played" at Yankee Stadium
in 1929. The home opener also marks the
first game the New York Yankees wore
uniform numbers.
The AAGPBL - All-American Girls
Professional Baseball League, was a
professional women's baseball league
which existed from 1943 to 1954. Having
been started in 1943 with four teams,
the league eventually expanded to 10
teams located in the American Midwest
in 1948.
From 1949 to 1951 the league was reduced to eight teams; Six teams in 1952
and 1953, before closing the league
with for teams in 1954.
This 1949 AAGPBL Grand Rapids Chicks
ticket was for home games played at
South High School ball field, in Grand
Rapids Michigan. The .74¢ general
admission tickets printed for the
league from 1945 to 1949 featured the
name of the league president, former
Major League Hall of Famer, Max Carey.
Did you ever wonder why there is a
price stamp on the back of a 1954
ticket stub? On April 1, 1954 the
newly-enacted admissions tax cuts went
into effect. Baseball teams typically
printed tickets well in advanced of the
season opener, which was usually around
or by the second week of April.
The IRS issued Guidelines for baseball clubs that sold tickets prior to
April 1 for games played after that
date. Ticket sellers can continue to
use tickets printed before April 1,
until they can order properly printed
tickets or have their present tickets
over-stamped to show the new tax rate.
If this is done the IRS added, signs
showing the admission price and tax,
must be posted conspicuously at the
outer entrance and at each ticket
window of the ballpark.
Commemorating the 100th anniversary of
professional baseball in 1969, Major
League Baseball introduced the MLB
logo. Campbell's in conjunction with
Major League baseball helped promote
the new logo with
Campbell's Kids
Premiums. Twelve MLB collectibles were
made available for cash and labels.
In another promotion, Campbell Kid's Day, enabled children 14 years of age
and under, the opportunity to see a
Major League game. With 9 labels from
Campbell's "Baseball Nine"-the soups
you received your
Campbell Kids ticket. When your
ticket arrived it came with an
Official
Campbell Kid's membership card.
New York Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford
was the clubs manager, and on the
opposite fold was a welcome message
picturing Ford and his career |
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Sponsored
by WSNS TV Channel 44, in 1973, the
Chicago White Sox started up a Knot
Hole Gang program. When you joined for
only $5.00, boys and girls 17 years of
age or under received a
White Sox Knot
Hole Gang official membership card,
and a number of free prizes. You also
recievd
Free Tickets to 5 weekend White Sox
games, and half price admission to
10 additional White Sox games when
accompanied by an adult.
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