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Lot # 693: Early Red Sox Ticket Stubs

Category: Boston Sports

Starting Bid: $300.00

Bids: 10 (Bid History)

Time Left: Auction closed
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Item was in Auction "2019 Winter Classic",
which ran from 1/4/2019 9:00 AM to
2/1/2019 10:00 PM



1) Rare 1909 ticket/rain check from the Boston American League Base Ball Club, with no exact date. The Red Sox home field was still the Huntington Avenue Base Ball Grounds, a facility that hosted the first World Series, played in 1903 between the Red Sox and the Pittsburgh Pirates. 2) 1912 Fenway Park rain check for April 27, a game from the OPENING SEASON of Fenway Park, won 6-5 by Boston, and a year in which the ballpark hosted its FIRST WORLD SERIES, won by the Red Sox over the New York Giants. Playing in this game were Red Sox Hall of Famers Tris Speaker, Harry Hooper, and Smokey Joe Wood and Philadelphia Athletics Hall of Famers Eddie Collins and Home Run Baker. 3) Rain check for April 10, 1913 Opening Day of the Season when the Red Sox lost to the Philadelphia Athletics 10-9. HOF players for the Red Sox were: Harry Hooper, Tris Speaker, and Smokey Joe Wood and for the Athletics: Chief Bender, Eddie Plank, Eddie Collins, and Home Run Baker. 4) 1913 rain check for May 1 game at Fenway won 8-2 by the Sox over the Washington Senators. Playing for Boston were HOF players Harry Hooper and Tris Speaker. HOF hurler Walter Johnson appeared as a pinch hitter for Washington.

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