One of the six autographed 1933 Goudey Babe Ruth cards from the "Uncle Jimmy Collection" at Wheatland Auctions sold Sunday night for $153,400. There are five more still to be sold. Several other vintage sets, single cards, lots, old Yankees programs and other memorabilia from the late collector’s New Jersey home also found new homes. The next auction featuring … [Read more...] about Notes: 1st Uncle Jimmy Item to Crack $100k; Card Shop Turns 43; More
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Getting Your Collection Outside the Fan Cave
It is not that I am a total wimp, but I do truly hate going to the doctor unless I am really hurting or sick. It is not the shots or the white coats or the smells or any of that. Mostly it is the bills. But, whatever the reason, I just have a great distaste for visiting the practitioners of the Hippocratic oath. But one doctor made the event a bit more enjoyable. Along … [Read more...] about Getting Your Collection Outside the Fan Cave
Florida Woman’s Passion for Baseball Leads to Big Collection
Most collectors of sports memorabilia may be men who remember opening packs of baseball cards in their youth but anyone who loves the game can be a collector and age is no factor at all. For Susan Plymel, the collecting bug bit when her husband gave her a signed Joe DiMaggio baseball, but she was a fan long before that. Living in Florida, with access to teams during … [Read more...] about Florida Woman’s Passion for Baseball Leads to Big Collection