Mets E-Bay Baubles of the Day 2005

[Guest Edgy DC]

Two overhead subway posters.





I have no idea why I just locked in a bid. It just happened faster than I could think.

That $14.00 shipping is killer. If you are mets44cam, I apologize for outbidding you, and if you want to take this over $16.00, the placards are yours.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

If that was Woody Flynn instead of Doug, you wouldn't be feeling bidder's remorse.

I think they're pretty cool, though. I don't remember a time when the Mets sales pitch indicated that we should go to Shea to see Frank Taveras and Doug Flynn.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I sure as Hell remember the campaign, but not those particular posters.

Everywhere we went that summer, it was "I'm Lee Mazzilli. Come out to Shea this summer and see what a Brooklyn boy can do in Queens."

That campaign was one of the first changes brought in by Doubleday, and "The Magic is Back," of course became the genesis for every season now having a slogan of it's own, not to mention the Magic Hat in centerfield.

Flynnie's has about the same number of characters, but a larger font size. What a bunch of racists Doubleday hired. The Taveras also features "short stop" spelled as two words. You won't see that very often any longer.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

"Short stop" in 2 words is jarring but not as bad for me as "homerun" spelled as 1 word.

I do have a soft spot for "base ball" however.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Calls for a committee on usage standarization continue to go unanswered.

I know I write homerun about 30% of the time. I just see it a lot and fool myself into thinking it's standard. It's amazing. It's perhaps the most defining play in baseball and a century and a half in we still can't agree on how to spell it.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'm the reluctant winner!

Anybody using my master bathroom in the near future will be treated to the idle threats of New York's most power-shorted doubleplay combo ever. (Zero homers in 1,005 at-bats for Taveras and Flynn that season.)

[Guest Edgy DC]

edgydc, thanks for bidding on the 2 NY Met posters. Would you be interesed in a 3rd (Steve Henderson) for an additional $6.00? no extra for shipping, I'll just add it to the other 2. Some guy won it and hasn't paid. Let me know thanks, Tom Wai-Shek

Tom, you're freakin' killing me here.

At the same time, I was outbid on the 1965 media guide and I'm letting it go.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Wow, you gotta go for the Steve Henderson.

I just hope you don't have to enlarge your bathroom to make room for it.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Oh, I promise myself: "Library items only, Edgy! No memoribilia!"

But go figure me today as I let the rare media guide go but jump on the subway posters.

I'll talk it over with Steve Henderson during my future bowel movements. See what he thinks.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Today's gee-gaw is a game-worn Steve Trachsel jersey.

A Binghamton Mets game-worn Steve Trachsel jersey (currrently going for $105.21). I can't find Trach's stats from his Bingo stint. The guy is also pushing an Aarom Baldiris, David Bacani, and Tim McNab (McWho?).

[Guest Edgy DC]

By the time I posted those, their auctions had probably ended. You still have a few minutes to grab four 1986 World Series Tickets.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Also:

[seawolf17]

Considering the guy's username is "binghamton_mets"... I'm going to guess that the team is releasing these on eBay, not some guy. Clements, Hietpas, Hill, Caligiuri, Edwards, Harper, and Malek all available now.

[Willets Point]

Edgy DC wrote: By the time I posted those, their auctions had probably ended. You still have a few minutes to grab four 1986 World Series Tickets.

Those games have played already so there's no point in buying those tickets.

[Guest KC]

Those posters are cool and way unique - just picture them framed in your
Mets' memoriabilia room one day one on top of the other. It's ok not to only
collect paper when you stumble on something that very few people have.

(that's my story and I'm sticking to it)

"People who collect stuff are a weird
lot" - Fernwood circa 2001

[metirish]

I think I'll bid on this, I've never bought a thing from ebay and this is my first time even on the site, thanks Edgy....starting bid id $15.95...



what's that worth, $20?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Beware the swoosh.

Today we have a 1963 program from a game hosted by the Salinas Mets. The condition seems excellent. If you look closely, you can see the thumbnail shots of the players on the inside cover.

[Guest Edgy DC]

This guy claims to offer the first home run hit by Lastings Milledge in the Appalachian League.

Impressive, thought I, as that was likely his first stop, making this actually Milledge's first home run as a professional.

Except, according to The Baseball Cube, Milledge didn't hit any homers in the Appy League.

[metirish]

No big surprise but I was the highest bidder on that shirt...

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

The last time I was at Shea I bought a very cute shirt that says, "Kiss Me, I'm a Mets Fan." I'm saving it for St. Patrick's Day

[Guest Edgy DC]

A real prize is this 1957 Giants media guide. (The listing incorrectly places the team in San Francisco already.)



I was going to bid on it, but the only future Mets on the team were Willie Mays and Wes Westrum.

Besides it looks like it has holes for binder rings on the lleft and for a comb binding on top.

[seawolf17]

Or you could bid on this official Craig Anderson Howard Clothiers 1962 blue Mets blazer. Wear it to the next wedding you attend; see how many heads you turn!

[Guest Edgy DC]

That's a great bauble!

A reserve of $1,000 is out of my neighborhood, though.

[Guest mlbaseballtalk]

I wonder if the fellow bidding on that media guide realizes the signifiance of his user name?

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

My neighbor Robbie Schepis had pants that matched that jacket.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Letter on early Mets letterhead.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'm not a "game-used" guy, but this is kind of interesting:



Davey Johnson's signed lineup card from a game in 1986, with what I guess are the changes in the ump's hand.

Here's that game: http://www.leaptoad.com/mets/gamedetail.php?gameno=3907

PotG was Darling but Backman and Dykstra get some support also.

[Theoldmole]

I'm the little Howard label and I'm proud as proud can be
To be sewn in every garment at the Howard factory

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Darling 4.5
Dykstra 2
Sisk 1.5
Strawberry 1
Backman 1

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Six Mets played for the Expos that day.