A Colorado shop may be closing after the owner was assaulted and robbed earlier this month. Paul Kendall, the 72-year-old owner of Rocky Mountain Sports and Collectibles in Pueblo told police four people entered the shop on the afternoon of August 10. One of them punched him in the face with brass knuckles and pushed him to the floor, choked him and stole his … [Read more...]
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Tull Donates Historic Game-Used Baseball Items to Smithsonian
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is adding more than a dozen significant artifacts from the careers of Major League Baseball players, including Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Ted Williams, Stan Musial, Yogi Berra, Brooks Robinson and Ozzie Smith to the national sports collection. Baseball jerseys, gloves, bats and other objects used by baseball legends … [Read more...]
Lucky 7 Cobb Paces $2.9 Million Memory Lane Auction
One of the seven rare T206 Ty Cobb Tobacco cards found in a crumpled paper bag inside an old house early last year sold for $228,000 to pace Memory Lane Inc.’s Summer Auction early Sunday morning. The card from the “Lucky 7 Find” that generated international headlines was graded PSA 2.5. It was the second time the card had sold since its discovery by family members … [Read more...]
Players Weekend Uniforms Will Be Auctioned For Charity
Player names on the back of New York Yankees’ uniforms? Blasphemy! But it’s for a good cause, so even the ghosts of the Babe, the Iron Horse, the Yankee Clipper and the Mick will not get a rise when they see “All Rise” on the back of Aaron Judge’s No. 99 jersey. Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association announced Players Weekend for Aug. 25-27, … [Read more...]
Mantle, Basketball Cards Top Goldin Auction
There were more than more than 1,750 items on the block in the 2017 Goldin Auctions Summer Online Auction and after tens of thousands of bids from thousands of collectors, it was basketball and baseball cards and memorabilia from Aaron Judge and the 1969 and 1986 Mets that stole the show. Combined with the 90-lot live auction staged on July 27, during the … [Read more...]
Stolen Getty Images Result in Huge Penalties
If you’re thinking about selling unlicensed photos, you might want to reconsider. Several people have agreed to pay Getty Images a lot of money over the online theft of thousands of copyrighted images he sold to sports collectors and others. According to Law360.com, the ongoing court case resulted in a New York man agreeing to pay $21.3 million for selling stolen login … [Read more...]
Vintage Cards, Rare Philadelphia A’s Player Ledger Headline LOTG Auction
Love of the Game has opened its Summer Auction with hundreds of items on the block through August 12. The sale features sports and non-sports cards and memorabilia from the late 19th Century to the present, highlighted by the two of the finest Hall of Fame rookie cards to hit the auction block this year: A signed 1951 Bowman Mickey Mantle, and a 1925 Exhibits Lou … [Read more...]
News and Notes from the 2017 National Sports Collectors Convention
The National Sports Collectors Convention wound to a close Sunday in Chicago. As is often the case, several dealers had packed up and left for home after the doors closed on Saturday evening, but this year they likely left some good money on the table. While show organizers have never released official attendance figures, it was clear to anyone who attended that … [Read more...]
Morphy’s NSCC Presence Kicks Off Push to First Auction
They're no stranger to other collecting fields and have handled plenty of sports memorabilia in the past but Morphy Auctions now has its own sports division, with twice-a-year auctions in the works. The Pennsylvania-based company is one of the largest auctioneers in the country, growing from two to over 65 employees since launching in 2004. In all, hold three … [Read more...]
Big Money for Fleer Basketball Case Finds at NSCC
They were almost unsellable 30 years ago. Modern basketball cards had all but died and Fleer's valiant attempt to bring them back in the latter half of the 1980s was met with little more than a yawn. Now, though, unopened boxes of the first two years of Fleer hoops are worth a small fortune. On Wednesday, just hours after the official opening of the National … [Read more...]
