2023 SPRING PREMIER AUCTION
Wed, Apr 12, 2023 08:00PM EDT - Sun, Apr 30, 2023 07:26AM EDT
Timed Auction
Lot 352
1952 Schaefer Award (Vintage Wooden Tobacco Bin) Presented to Harold "Pee Wee" Reese
Sold for
$853.20
Sold Price includes BP
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Schaefer Beer was the official beer sponsor of the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1951-57. The company handed out an annual award to a Dodgers player during that time -- for what achievement we can only surmise (cue "Chug, Chug, Chug, Chug..."). In 1952, the Schaefer award went to second baseman Harold Reese, known affably as Pee Wee. The 1984 Hall of Fame inductee made nine straight All-Star teams from 1946 to '54. In 1952 he tallied 152 hits with 94 runs scored and led the National League with 30 stolen bags. Sounds like the Kentucky boy deserved a couple rounds of Schaefer for those efforts!
This seemingly wonky award comes in the form of an old-fashioned wooden tobacco bin. A metal placard below the opening latch is engraved "H.R. Schaefer Award 7-12-52" with etches of a beer mug and two bats criss-crossing over a baseball. The interior metal tin reeks of old tobacco, so this thing has seen its share of use presumably from 'ole Pee Wee himself! Our consignor has traced its provenance back to a Reese family estate sale decades ago.
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