Appraisal: Lookouts Baseball Team Collection, ca. 1945
Clip: Season 27 Episode 18 | 1m 50sVideo has Closed Captions
Appraisal: Lookouts Baseball Team Collection, ca. 1945
In Vintage Chattanooga, Hour 1, Leila Dunbar appraises a Lookouts baseball team collection from 1945.
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Appraisal: Lookouts Baseball Team Collection, ca. 1945
Clip: Season 27 Episode 18 | 1m 50sVideo has Closed Captions
In Vintage Chattanooga, Hour 1, Leila Dunbar appraises a Lookouts baseball team collection from 1945.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipAPPRAISER: Well, Phil, we're always talking about the Yankees, we're always talking about New York baseball, but today, we get to talk about Tennessee baseball...
GUEST: Right.
APPRAISER: And the Lookouts, and your dad.
GUEST: My dad played for the Lookouts in the late '40s, uh for Joe Engel, when he was 17 years old, and then uh played for the Lookouts for a few years before going into the military.
Everybody knew him by Lefty, because he was a left-handed pitcher.
APPRAISER: It meant a lot to him.
Kept the uniform, kept the glove.
GUEST: Yes.
That glove is probably mid-'40s, I would say, and the glove actually also went to the Korean War with him.
He played with it with the Green Waves.
APPRAISER: Well, do you know much about Joe Engel?
GUEST: Uh, just from what my dad told me about, you know, what a great entrepreneur he was, and, and promotion-- I know one time, my dad told me he gave away a house... APPRAISER: Yes, he did.
GUEST: ...uh at, at one of the games, and they actually had so many people that they actually had people standing in the outfield, behind the outfield.
APPRAISER: Well, Joe Engel was known as the Barnum of baseball...
GUEST: Right.
APPRAISER: ...in his era; the Baron of Baloney.
GUEST: Right.
APPRAISER: He was one of the world's greatest promoters.
He not only gave away the house, where he had about 25,000 people...
GUEST: Right.
APPRAISER: ...at the height of the Depression in 1936.
He was also known to trade a shortstop, Johnny Jones, to Charlotte for a turkey.
GUEST: Right.
APPRAISER: And then he said he got the worst of the deal...
GUEST: Right.
APPRAISER: ...because the turkey was tough.
(laughs) So you came to the ball park, and Joe Engel entertained you.
Now, your dad didn't make it into the hall of fame...
GUEST: No, he didn't.
APPRAISER: And minor league baseball's g... generally not hugely collected, but I would think that someone from Chattanooga who appreciates the history of the Lookouts and Engel would pay probably somewhere between $1,500 and $2,000 for this.
GUEST: Wow.
Wow.
APPRAISER: But...
But I...
GUEST: They can't have it.
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Clip: S27 Ep18 | 2m 32s | Appraisal: 19th C. German Target Pistols & English Case (2m 32s)
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Clip: S27 Ep18 | 2m 35s | Appraisal: Acoma Water Jar, ca. 1900 (2m 35s)
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Clip: S27 Ep18 | 3m 10s | Appraisal: Chippendale Walnut Tall Chest, ca. 1790 (3m 10s)
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Clip: S27 Ep18 | 3m 29s | Appraisal: Diamond & Pearl Necklace, ca. 1905 (3m 29s)
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Clip: S27 Ep18 | 1m 2s | Appraisal: French Jewelry Collection (1m 2s)
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Clip: S27 Ep18 | 2m 17s | Appraisal: Lionel Freight Train Set, ca. 1935 (2m 17s)
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Clip: S27 Ep18 | 1m 6s | Appraisal: Maw & Company Encaustic Tile Panel, ca. 1870 (1m 6s)
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Clip: S27 Ep18 | 3m 27s | Appraisal: Over-the-shoulder Saxhorn, ca. 1865 (3m 27s)
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Clip: S27 Ep18 | 1m 26s | Appraisal: Rolex Red Submariner Watch, ca. 1970 (1m 26s)
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Clip: S27 Ep18 | 2m 16s | Appraisal: Royal Doulton Sung Ware Bowl, ca. 1930 (2m 16s)
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Clip: S27 Ep18 | 2m 16s | Appraisal: Southern Needlework Picture, ca. 1830 (2m 16s)
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Clip: S27 Ep18 | 2m 43s | Appraisal: T. H. Benton Watercolor & Drawing, ca. 1940 (2m 43s)
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Clip: S27 Ep18 | 2m 51s | Appraisal: Tootsietoy Dollhouse Furniture, ca. 1935 (2m 51s)
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Clip: S27 Ep18 | 2m 40s | Appraisal: Walter Inglis Anderson Watercolor, ca. 1960 (2m 40s)
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