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| Re: "1916 World's Champions" Watches. [message #9733 is a reply to message #9730] |
Sat, 19 January 2019 03:17   |
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Ephemerald
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Registered: October 2018
Location: City of Lake Salt
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thesnark17 wrote on Sat, 19 January 2019 01:15Fascinating!
The only other baseball team that I've heard of receiving Gruen watches after the World Series is the 1923 Yankees (14k V2.5 Pentagons). I wonder how many years this was done?
Thank you for a much higher quality data point than usual!
No problem.
I don't know how accurate it is but from the description in the link, easy to miss but it may answer your question.
"Championship rings for World Series victory first debuted in 1922 and became the standard format in 1926. Before that time, pendants and watch fobs were the most common player prize."
Seems to fit in with your Yankees story.
If you have a reference I'd love to see it.
Matthias
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| Re: "1916 World's Champions" Watches. [message #9741 is a reply to message #9739] |
Sat, 19 January 2019 17:55 |
thesnark17
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Okay, here's what I can find:
1903 Boston Red Sox - watch fob
1904 no Series
1905 New York Giants - tie pin
1906 Chicago White Sox - watch fob
1907 Chicago Cubs - watch fob
1908 Chicago Cubs - watch fob; losers Detroit had Elgin watches
1909 Pittsburgh Pirates - watch fob, Jules Jurgensen watch given by team owner
1910 Philadelphia Athletics - watch fob
1911 Philadelphia Athletics - watch fob
1912 Boston Red Sox - watch fob, (probably unofficial) Dubois/Longines watch
1913 Philadelphia Athletics - E. Howard (players), Waltham Colonial (management) given by team owner
1914 Boston Braves - tie pin, some were made into rings
1915 Boston Red Sox - watch fob
1916 Boston Red Sox - Gruen V4 Octathin
1917 Chicago White Sox - watch fob
1918 Boston Red Sox - watch fob
1919 Cincinnati Reds - watch fob
1920 Cleveland Indians - cuff links, watch fob
1921 New York Giants - watch fob
1922 New York Giants - ring - first "official" ring
1923 New York Yankees - Gruen V2.5 Pentagon (possibly other calibers too)
1924 Washington Senators - watch fob
1925 Pittsburgh Pirates - watch fob
Rings were official issue every year from here on, but that doesn't mean other things weren't issued!
1926 St. Louis Cardinals - rings, Illinois A. Lincoln pocket watch (from fans by subscription)
1928 New York Yankees - Hamilton wristwatch
1930 Philadelphia Athletics - Hamilton (?? private label) pocket watch, tie pin
1931 St. Louis Cardinals - Waltham 21j Colonial A pocket watch (from fans by subscription)
1937 New York Yankees - Hamilton pocket watch
1938 New York Yankees - Hamilton pocket watch
1941 New York Yankees - Hamilton pocket watch
1944 St. Louis Cardinals - Gruen unknown model, probably 380
1947 New York Yankees - Hamilton 21j pocket watch
1956 New York Yankees - Rolex Oyster Perpetual wristwatch
So it turns out there were three years with Gruen watches! The 1944 watches are quite striking.
Also it appears that the Yankees were rich - who would have thought?
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| Re: "1916 World's Champions" Watches. [message #9777 is a reply to message #9770] |
Mon, 21 January 2019 02:34 |
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kastner
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Registered: May 2013
Location: Pasadena CA
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I didn't know that they made an employee edition and retailer edition. I have the 1944 employee editions, all of them it seems, bound in a personalized cover for John R. Bullock. They are filled with wonderful glimpses of the company: Lists of birthdays, reports from Gruen employees in the service and where you can write them, suggestions for improvements, select employee profiles, misc. fun facts ("With the fog that Cincinnati has had for the past few weeks this is probably excusable and at least understandable, but George Kueffner came to work recently wearing one black and one brown shoe"), articles about the company, and so on. I should scan this and share.
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