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This Month in SPORTS MAY 22, 1887: The "athlete’s athlete" Jim Thorpe was
born. In 2015, the only known example of his 1915 W-Unc
Collecting History: MAY baseball card took $23,900 even though it was graded
SGC 20 Fair 1.5. A 1940s Jim Thorpe-signed baseball, PSA
NM-MT 8, auctioned for $28,680 in 2006, and his game-
By: Mike & Marla McLeod worn football helmet gaveled for $17,925 in 2009; inside,
it was carved with “J. Thorpe, Capt.”
MAY 3, 2008: A 1961 Phil Goyette promotional York An all around super athlete, he played professional
Peanut Butter glass sold for $17,925 at Heritage Auctions. baseball (New York Giants, Boston Braves) and football
Goyette played in the NHL for 16 seasons. He played (Canton Bulldogs in the American Professional Football
941 games and scored 207 goals. (Photo courtesy of Heritage Association, forerunner of the NFL) and
Auctions, HA.com) barnstormed with a basketball team.
His Canton Bulldogs won three World
MAY 4, 1985: Spend a Buck won the Kentucky Derby. Championships. Jim Thorpe won two gold
On January 8, 2016, the Hunter Farms owner’s trophy for medals at the 1912 Stockholm Olympic
the race sold for $187,521 at Lelands. Kentucky Derby Games in the pentathlon and decathlon, but
trophies are unique in that they are made of solid gold those were taken from him due to his playing
and have a hand-carved base of jade weighing more than semi-professional baseball before the games.
10 lbs. This trophy weighed in at 61.5 oz. and was 22 His medals were restored in in 1983—years
inches tall. after he passed away on March 28, 1953.
(All photos courtesy of Heritage Auctions, HA.com)
MAY 4, 2012: The Buckner Ball from the 1986 World
Series; Boston Red Sox VS. New York Mets auctioned MAY 25, 2016: Willie Mays’ 1957 New York
for $418,250 at Heritage Auctions. On October 25, 1986; Giants game-used home flannel jersey from his
Game Six, the Mets were down by a run in the 10th inning final season scored $222,036 at Grey Flannel
with two outs and two strikes against Mookie Wilson and the winning run on third. Then, Auctions, which wrote of him as, “Arguable the
Wilson sent a rolling grounder through the legs of first baseman Bill Buckner. The Mets best outfielder to ever play Major League Baseball,
were saved and then went on to win Game Seven. Willie Mays was inducted into the National Baseball
Hall of Fame on the first ballot in 1979. Mays was
MAY 6, 1931: Birth of the great Willie Mays. Mays slugged 660 home runs in his career. a 24-time All-Star, a World Series champion, a two-
His 1951 Minneapolis Millers home jersey, won as he transitioned from the Negro time National League MVP and led the National
Leagues to the Giants, hit $44,063 at Robert Edward Auctions in 2011. On May 12, 2016, League in home runs four times” (greyflannelauction.
a 1952 Topps Willie Mays #261 rookie card graded PSA mint 9 went over the fence for com).
$478,000 at Heritage Auctions.
MAY 27, 2000: Maurice “Rocket” Richard
MAY 13, 1914: Joe Louis Barrow, the passed away. On March 18, 1945, he was the first
“Brown Bomber,” was born in rural to score 50 goals in 50 hockey games and the first
Alabama. Of his 69 professional fights, to reach the 500-career-goals mark. He played in the first NHL All-Star Game in 1947, and
he won 66 by knockout or TKO and was the jersey he wore in it sold for $89,625 at Heritage Auctions in 2016.
World Heavyweight Champion for twelve
straight years (boxrec.com). In a 2009 MAY 30, 1896: Bobby Lowe, 2nd baseman for the Boston Beaneaters, hit four home
Heritage Auction, a pair of 1940s Joe Louis runs this day, the first league player to do so in one game. After homer #4, the fans
fight-worn purple satin trunks (right) went threw $160 in coins on the field for him (The Braves
for $15,535 Encyclopedia by Gary Caruso, p. 206) —more than $4,600
today. Playing against the Cincinnati Reds, Lowe
MAY 14, had six RBIs on five hits (a single to go with the
1912: Herb four homers) and 17 bases in the game. The score
Pennock made his pitching debut for the Philadelphia ended at 20-11, one of the greatest games ever.
Athletics and allowed only one hit in four innings (sabr.org, Lou Gehrig hit four homers for Boston in one game
“Herb Pennock”). In Game Three of the 1927 World Series in 1932. (sabr.org, “Four home runs for Bobby Lowe” by
while playing for the Yankees, Pennock sent the first 22 Charles F. Faber). In all, only 16 players have joined
Pittsburgh Pirates to the dugout hitless before giving up that elite group.
a single. The Yankees won 8-1. Pennock’s 1927 New York In 2015, an 1896 PE7-2 Bobby Lowe
Yankees World Championship Ring sold for $203,150 at pin back made by Whitehead and Hoag went for
Heritage Auctions in 2016. Herb Pennock threw 1,227 $2,629. Less than an inch in diameter, the aged
strikeouts, was a World Series Champion four times, and and rusting button’s stick pin was missing. His 1895 Mayo’s Cut Plug N300 card rated
was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1948. SGC VG/EX 50 scored $657.25 in 2007, both at Heritage Auctions.

MAY 18, 2013: Babe Ruth’s 1914 MAY 30, 1935:
Baltimore News rookie card hit with Babe Ruth’s last
$450,300 at Robert Edward Auctions this Major League game.
day. It is one of only ten known to exist. The Boston Braves
cap he wore that
MAY 18, 2014: This day seems to be a day, which he gave to
good day for the Babe. A serious collector William Sundstrom
bid $650,108 and won a gold pocket watch for his two-year-
presented to Babe Ruth during his last old son as he left
appearance at Yankee Stadium, marking the game, rose to
the 25th anniversary of the opening of $167,300 at Heritage
Yankee Stadium. The watch was inscribed Auctions in 2016.
with: “Babe Ruth Silver Anniversary Yankee (Photo courtesy of Heritage
Auctions, HA.com)
Stadium 1923-1948 ‘The House That ----------------
Ruth Built.’” After the sale, SCP Auctions All uncredited photos are public domain, PD-US.
reported it was “… a top-10 price for a Credit: wikipedia.org
Ruth artifact.” (Photo courtesy of SCP Auctions)