1941 Brooklyn Dodgers Opening Day Ebbets Field Ticket

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1941 Brooklyn Dodgers Opening Day Ticket Stub. Long a hobby favorite for its attractive die-cut design, this stub allowed one lucky fan through the Ebbets Field turnstiles as the Brooklyn Dodgers opened the season against their hometown rival New York Giants. Though the Bums would suffer defeat this day, they would go on to claim their first National League pennant in twenty-one years in 1941, and meet the Yankees for the first of seven Subway Series over a fifteen-year period. The use of catcher imagery for this ticket seems a cruel irony, as the 1941 Dodgers are best remembered for Mickey Owen's dropped third strike for what should have been the final out of the Series' fourth game, an error that many see as the start of the Dodgers' lengthy run of bad luck against the hated Yanks. Many consider this ticket to the most beautiful ever produced! Sold in 2009 Heritage Auction (seat 8-8-2) for $956: /common/view_item.php?Sale_No=714&Lot_No=81863&src=pr Sold in 2001 Lelands Auction (seat # 8-2-7) for $1193: /Auction/AuctionDetail/4384/April-2001/Sports/Brooklyn-Dodgers/Lot1200~1941-Ebbets-Field-Opening-Day-Ticket-Stub?page=117 One sold in a lot in the November '10 Lelands auction (seat # 15-13-12), one sold in a lot in a Hunt Auction (seat 25-21-21) in 2003 and one sold in a lot in 2007 Huggins and Scott Auction (seat #8-8-3) and that' s it-- 5 examples total have entered the marketplace in the last 10 years. This one will make 6! I have a 7th (seat # 2-6-16) that I am keeping and I've seen an eighth (seat #14-15-15) which is owned by a private collector. Those are the only 8 known examples of this ticket that I am aware of. (And one of only 6 examples w/ the rain check intact!) The Dodgers issued a series of figural tickets for Opening Day in 1939, 1940 and 1941. The 1939 was in the shape of a baseball, the 1940 was in the shape of a glove and the 1941 was in the shape of a crouching catcher. This 3-ticket series is highly popular with collectors, none more so than this 1941 version as the '41 Dodgers would ultimately win the National League pennant. The Dodgers also produced figural "light bulb" tickets for all their night games beginning in 1938 until early 1941 as well. (9 known examples exist of the 1938 Night Game #1 ticket shown above, which was the first night game @ Ebbets Field and featured the 2nd of two consecutive no-hitters thrown by Johnny Vander Meer!) All of these die-cut tix are very scarce and highly sought after. This game took place 4/15/41 and featured stars like Gabby Hartnett, Bill Terry, Carl Hubbell, Mel Ott, Leo Durocher, Billy Herman, Ducky Medwick, Pee Wee Reese, Paul Waner and many others. Ace Adams makes his Major League debut and records career win #1. See scan for condition. Has two autographs in pencil on reverse. Other tickets not included--just the 1941 Opening Day (seat #2-6-17) High bidder to add $8.00 S/H and payment expected within 4 days of auction end. Don't miss this chance to add this historic ticket to your collection. Your next chance might not come around for quite awhile. Thanks for looking! Due to numerous requests, here's a little additional information regarding condition: --I added another picture of the front and reverse. (They are the last 2 pictures.) Doesn't have 2 pencil autographs on reverse --(that was my other one). A little light creasing around the catchers waist area as shown-- (you can kind of see the light creases a little better on the back scan if you look close.) Light wrinkle by one of the catcher's shinguards. Light crease through "at", "duly" and "law" on rain check portion. Light crease below the catcher's right foot before the words, "lower stand". Light soiling on reverse. It's pretty nice for being 70 years old and die-cut. read more

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