1947-48 Winthrop MA High School Basketball Season Pass & Ticket Stub Grouping - Boston Garden Game History, Hand-scored
Overview
This is a rare, historically significant piece of post-WWII Massachusetts high school sports ephemera belonging to a student named Dorothy Donahue during the 1947–1948 basketball season.
What is Included:
* Original Season Pass (Front): Features the printed roster of athletic officials, including Hall of Fame Coach Gordon B. Connor, Captain Paul Millerick, and Faculty Manager Ralph L. Duplin. Fully signed by the original member.
* Hand-Scored Schedule (Back): The reverse side features the complete printed home and away schedule. It features meticulously hand-written pencil scores for 10 of the games, acting as an authentic game-by-game record of the team's season.
* The Boston Garden Ticket Stub: Includes a rare 60¢ blue paper ticket stub matching the historic February 10 away game where Winthrop played Woburn on the legendary parquet floor of the Boston Garden. The fragment cleanly shows "EN MASS." (matching GARDEN, MASS.) and the premium 60-cent admission price required for the big-arena showcase.
* Bonus Summer Event Stub: A red reserved floor ticket stub (Seat Left W 1) from a Friday evening event hosted inside the Winthrop High School Auditorium on August 6, 1948, printed by the Globe Ticket Company.
Condition:
All items show expected light handling wear, edge toning, and minor aging consistent with 80-year-old paper ephemera. The blue stub has a torn left edge but retains completely clear serial numbers, price, and location text. Structurally sound, highly legible, and completely un-restored. Perfect for framing or local historical archiving.
Winthrop Massachusetts High School Basketball Season Ticket and Season schedule for 1947 and the Boston Garden Game from schedule game Stub are available together here.
The Winthrop Massachusetts High School Basketball Season Ticket from 1947 is a vintage sports memorabilia item that includes a game stub from their only Boston Garden game that year (see schedule). This collectible piece of history offers a glimpse into the basketball scene of the time, making it a valuable addition for fans of vintage sports memorabilia. The Boston Garden afternoon session ticket stub serves as a tangible connection to a specific event from 1947, adding to its charm and uniqueness. Finding these all together in a vintage scrapbook was an exciting find.