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Sharky's post in the Pirates thread got me thinking, why haven't we ever had a thread on Sports Memorabilia?
I'm an avid collector, with a primary focus on baseball HOFers. I probably have over 100 autographed baseballs, with my best being 2 Mickey Mantle signed balls, a Ted Williams baseball, a Joe DiMaggio autographed picture, and a ball signed by Koufax, Snider, Mays, Lefty Grove & Kiner. I also have over 100 autographed HOF plaque postcards, index cards and photos from other hall of famers like Pee Wee Reese, Freddie Frisch, George Sisler, and many others, from the known to the obscure.
I bought most of my collection in the early 2000s, but recently started adding to it again. I purchased autographed baseballs of Gary Carter, Don Sutton, Whitey Herzog & Jim Bunning last week, and am now contemplating buying Darryl Kile and Ken Caminiti signed baseballs.
I have them all displayed in a room my wife and I use as an office/gym, and while I love it, she hates it, LOL. I got her into it back then, and she did well buying Lucille Ball autographed items, but she generally has no interest.
I also bought a bunch of other autographed items back in the day from notables like J. Edgar Hoover, Sir Edmund Hillary, Bob Hope, and a bunch of other celebrities or politicians (including Joe McCarthy!), but haven't gotten into those as much.
My uncle's wife's aunt died a few years ago, and she was her last known relative, so they went to the apartment and discovered a treasure trove of autographed baseballs. Apparently she was a rabid baseball fan back in the 1940s and 1950s, and had about 25 baseballs autographed by entire teams, from the Brooklyn Dodgers to the Chicago White Sox. I told him to get them authenticated and sell them at auction, and he did, selling the collection for over $25,000. An early 1950s ball with Jackie Robinson was the biggest winner, and he had another with Nellie Fox (an extremely rare autograph) that sold for a few grand.
I'm an avid collector, with a primary focus on baseball HOFers. I probably have over 100 autographed baseballs, with my best being 2 Mickey Mantle signed balls, a Ted Williams baseball, a Joe DiMaggio autographed picture, and a ball signed by Koufax, Snider, Mays, Lefty Grove & Kiner. I also have over 100 autographed HOF plaque postcards, index cards and photos from other hall of famers like Pee Wee Reese, Freddie Frisch, George Sisler, and many others, from the known to the obscure.
I bought most of my collection in the early 2000s, but recently started adding to it again. I purchased autographed baseballs of Gary Carter, Don Sutton, Whitey Herzog & Jim Bunning last week, and am now contemplating buying Darryl Kile and Ken Caminiti signed baseballs.
I have them all displayed in a room my wife and I use as an office/gym, and while I love it, she hates it, LOL. I got her into it back then, and she did well buying Lucille Ball autographed items, but she generally has no interest.
I also bought a bunch of other autographed items back in the day from notables like J. Edgar Hoover, Sir Edmund Hillary, Bob Hope, and a bunch of other celebrities or politicians (including Joe McCarthy!), but haven't gotten into those as much.
My uncle's wife's aunt died a few years ago, and she was her last known relative, so they went to the apartment and discovered a treasure trove of autographed baseballs. Apparently she was a rabid baseball fan back in the 1940s and 1950s, and had about 25 baseballs autographed by entire teams, from the Brooklyn Dodgers to the Chicago White Sox. I told him to get them authenticated and sell them at auction, and he did, selling the collection for over $25,000. An early 1950s ball with Jackie Robinson was the biggest winner, and he had another with Nellie Fox (an extremely rare autograph) that sold for a few grand.
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