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Every time I find an obviously old and/or historic
golf ball, I grab it and I have been putting them in my junk
drawer in my kitchen. This is the same junk drawer that contains
large Victor rat traps, civil defense radiation dosimeters,
and camouflaged electronic booby-trap trip wire. And rubber
bands and paper clips. Tonight, it occurred to me that I should
show golf balls on my website. Some are obviously pretty old.
There are two that I have had since I found them back in 1975
on Northland Golf Course, and started this little collection.
Those two are the Lee Trevino and the Tommy Armour balls. I'll
bet they are worth almost as much as a new Titleist.
The golf ball stats are as follows:
- Circa 1977 Wilson ProStaff, which can be
spotted for miles with their old setback-crater dimples.
- The Grand Avenue Standard is a Park/McGregor
#4 Solid State golf ball, probably circa 1972 or so. No such
service station in the Duluth phone book anymore. Anyone remember
it?
- The Tommy Armour #3 Silver Scott has a tournament
logo of: "Snyder Swinging Open"
- The "Lee Trevino" with "sombrero"
logo is a Rawlings #3
- The strange Royal #2 with the hexagon dimples
has a logo of "Mesabi Tire Co." on it. That Hibbing
company is still around, now named Mesabi
Radial Tire Company
- I included the ENRON Titleist #4 DT Spin
just for shits and giggles. It is probably worth more than
ten million shares of ENRON, or $0.00000001 dollars. Or nothing,
in fact...
If anyone sees this page and has historic golf
balls that they want to add to my collection, I may just offer
some dinero in your direction for them, and make a really nice
collection of strange historic golf balls. Send me an email
and tell me what you;ve got! (tony@tonyrogers.com)
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