Blog — Vintage Deluxe

History of the San Francisco Seals baseball team – charter members of the Pacific Coast League (LCL). From the SFO Museum. San Francisco Seals playing at Recreation Park 1927 Dario Lodigiani of the Oakland Oaks sliding into third base 1937 Seals and New York Giants in exhibition game at Seals Stadium 1947 Excerpt: Before the arrival of the Giants from New York in 1958, the Seals were San Francisco’s favorite professional baseball team and an integral part of the city’s fabric. There were no Major League Baseball teams west of St. Louis during the first half of the twentieth century...

Library Of Congress: Technical illustration shows 14 figures with various designs for parachutes, including Blanchard’s parachute, and several vessels with wings. + Source: La Locomotion Aérienne Passive :: Library Of Congress

HA Sports always has well-researched content to go along with their auction lots. Pretty-gruesome one below of the 1919 Willard vs. Dempsey fight. 1919 Willard vs. Dempsey Pinback. The first example we’ve ever encountered of this rare pinback sold at the historic bout in which Jack Dempsey first claimed the Heavyweight title. Dempsey so badly injured the much larger defending Champ–a broken jaw, broken ribs, several broken teeth and numerous fractures to his facial bones–that many suspected Dempsey’s gloves were “loaded,” though respected Ring Magazine founder Nat Fleischer provided a first-person refutation of these allegations. The celluoid pin measures 1.25″...

+ Source: Bath Ruth Swings :: 1920 :: Library Of Congress