May 2019 acquisitions

**CollectingCutch** · 05-10-2019, 07:59 PM

Picked up this jersey numbered black refractor of Josh Bell from 2019 Heritage. Attachment 89040

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**Brewer Andy** · 05-10-2019, 08:50 PM

Originally Posted by gracecollector

Probably the only time I will ever knowingly pay money for a Mark Loretta card.

Great player!

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**Brewer Andy** · 05-10-2019, 09:43 PM

Don�t buy non Brewers cards but this ended too low and I love him [MENTION=3722]madbull34[/MENTION]

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Got a great deal on these 3, hoping he gets a shot somewhere

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Couldn�t pass on a Black Ref for $1.60

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**madbull34** · 05-10-2019, 11:43 PM

Originally Posted by Brewer Andy

Don’t buy non Brewers cards but this ended too low and I love him [MENTION=3722]madbull34[/MENTION]

Got a great deal on these 3, hoping he gets a shot somewhere

Couldn’t pass on a Black Ref for $1.60

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Nice Nori. I have the base version. He's still playing professionally in Japan!

**Randy Shields** · 05-11-2019, 06:45 AM

Originally Posted by baberuthfan

Haven�t picked up any vintage HOFers lately but saw this and couldn�t pass it up. Single signed on an American League ball. Jsa cert

Niiiice! I'm very jealous but congrats!!
I know I've told this story on the boards a few times in the past but I was born and raised in Norwalk, Ohio which was where Lefty lived the last 14 years of his life. He lived with his son and daughter-in-law at 52 Parsons St. from 1961 until he passed away on May 22nd, 1975.
I played my little league years in the Lefty Grove Baseball League which was named after him and is still there to this day. I was too young to appreciate him then and never met him but in hindsight it was pretty cool growing up in a town where the man who many consider the greatest left-handed pitcher of all time lived the final years of his life. I had a buddy in high school who lived right beside of him and would talk to him on occasion but again we were both too young at the time to really have a sense of appreciation or admiration for what he had accomplished in life.
He's only one of three players that I actually collect and I'd love to pick up a single signed baseball of him at some point in the future.
Congrats again on a truly great pickup!!

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**baberuthfan** · 05-11-2019, 11:32 AM

Thank you very much. Is that where lefty owned a bowling alley?? I never expected to own a single signed baseball of grove but the price was too good to pass up

Originally Posted by Randy Shields

Niiiice! I'm very jealous but congrats!!
I know I've told this story on the boards a few times in the past but I was born and raised in Norwalk, Ohio which was where Lefty lived the last 14 years of his life. He lived with his son and daughter-in-law at 52 Parsons St. from 1961 until he passed away on May 22nd, 1975.
I played my little league years in the Lefty Grove Baseball League which was named after him and is still there to this day. I was too young to appreciate him then and never met him but in hindsight it was pretty cool growing up in a town where the man who many consider the greatest left-handed pitcher of all time lived the final years of his life. I had a buddy in high school who lived right beside of him and would talk to him on occasion but again we were both too young at the time to really have a sense of appreciation or admiration for what he had accomplished in life.
He's only one of three players that I actually collect and I'd love to pick up a single signed baseball of him at some point in the future.
Congrats again on a truly great pickup!!

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**Randy Shields** · 05-11-2019, 04:11 PM

Originally Posted by baberuthfan

Thank you very much. Is that where lefty owned a bowling alley?? I never expected to own a single signed baseball of grove but the price was too good to pass up

I saw what your winning bid was. I'd say that's a pretty good price especially with a pretty bold auto compared to a lot of others and seeing what some sellers have their fixed ones priced at with most not being single-signed.
So after he retired he returned to his hometown of Lonaconing, Maryland and opened Lefty's Place, which was a duck pin bowling alley & pool hall.
Here's a picture of it. Unfortunately it was destroyed by a flood in 1996.