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mrmopar
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Do you collect ticket stubs? I stumbled upon this extremely cool "significant" game stub!
I have been known to grab random stubs here and there and have kept pretty much every baseball ticket stub for every game I have ever attended. I like the special stubs that feature players or events depicted in photos on the stub, but sometimes there are stubs that are just collectible in themselves, simply due to an event that occurred at that game. This is not new, people have been collecting significant stubs for many years. World Series, All Star games, milestone events, debuts, last career games, etc. Some of my favorite stubs include Garvey's MLB debut, the day he tied and then the next day where he broke the NL consecutive games played record, his 1984 NLCS HR and a game in 1977 which he went 5 for 5 with 5 runs scored and had 5 RBIs. I still seek a few other special games, like his last MLB game and some related to the longest playing infield, but hope to locate them someday. I just added one that ranks right up there though and really had no idea it even existed until I saw it. last week
A little background story first:
The 1977 Dodgers were the first team in MLB history to have 4 players to hit at least 30 home runs each in the same season. Dusty Baker, Ron Cey, Steve Garvey and Reggie Smith were the teammates to accomplish this feat. Garvey lead the way at 33, Smith followed up with 32 and both Cey and Baker just made it with 30 a piece.
http://www.answers.com/Q/Teams_with_4_players_with_30_home_runs
11 more teams have gone on to match this feat, but the Dodgers will forever be the trailblazers of this record.
So recently I came upon a lot of three Dodger stubs in an Ebay listing. The listing mentioned that one game in the lot, September 18, 1977, was a game in which Dusty Baker, Ron Cey, Steve Garvey and Reggie Smith each hit a home run. That caught my eye, considering this was their historic season and each of the 4 had hit a HR in a single game! This was #31 for Garvey and #30 for both Cey and Smith! The only thing that could have made this game any better is if Baker would have slammed #30 too, but he was lagging behind the gang and was only at #28 for this game. Although Baker wouldn't make the record official until Oct 2, the final game of the season, this had to be a special game. I mean, how many times could the 4 players have hit HRs in the same game in this historic season? After checking every 1977 Dodgers box score in which the Dodgers scored 4 runs or more, I confirmed that this was THE ONLY TIME it happened that season.
This game is the only time in a season where each man hit 30 or more HRs, where they all went yard together! I'm pretty happy to add this one for $1.99 + $1.50 s/h and it arrived home today.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/LAN/LAN197709180.shtml
I have been known to grab random stubs here and there and have kept pretty much every baseball ticket stub for every game I have ever attended. I like the special stubs that feature players or events depicted in photos on the stub, but sometimes there are stubs that are just collectible in themselves, simply due to an event that occurred at that game. This is not new, people have been collecting significant stubs for many years. World Series, All Star games, milestone events, debuts, last career games, etc. Some of my favorite stubs include Garvey's MLB debut, the day he tied and then the next day where he broke the NL consecutive games played record, his 1984 NLCS HR and a game in 1977 which he went 5 for 5 with 5 runs scored and had 5 RBIs. I still seek a few other special games, like his last MLB game and some related to the longest playing infield, but hope to locate them someday. I just added one that ranks right up there though and really had no idea it even existed until I saw it. last week
A little background story first:
The 1977 Dodgers were the first team in MLB history to have 4 players to hit at least 30 home runs each in the same season. Dusty Baker, Ron Cey, Steve Garvey and Reggie Smith were the teammates to accomplish this feat. Garvey lead the way at 33, Smith followed up with 32 and both Cey and Baker just made it with 30 a piece.
http://www.answers.com/Q/Teams_with_4_players_with_30_home_runs
11 more teams have gone on to match this feat, but the Dodgers will forever be the trailblazers of this record.
So recently I came upon a lot of three Dodger stubs in an Ebay listing. The listing mentioned that one game in the lot, September 18, 1977, was a game in which Dusty Baker, Ron Cey, Steve Garvey and Reggie Smith each hit a home run. That caught my eye, considering this was their historic season and each of the 4 had hit a HR in a single game! This was #31 for Garvey and #30 for both Cey and Smith! The only thing that could have made this game any better is if Baker would have slammed #30 too, but he was lagging behind the gang and was only at #28 for this game. Although Baker wouldn't make the record official until Oct 2, the final game of the season, this had to be a special game. I mean, how many times could the 4 players have hit HRs in the same game in this historic season? After checking every 1977 Dodgers box score in which the Dodgers scored 4 runs or more, I confirmed that this was THE ONLY TIME it happened that season.
This game is the only time in a season where each man hit 30 or more HRs, where they all went yard together! I'm pretty happy to add this one for $1.99 + $1.50 s/h and it arrived home today.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/LAN/LAN197709180.shtml