If bidding on Olympic memorabilia intrigues you, it’s time to be Shy. That’s not a contradiction. SCP Auctions is offering the gold medal won at the 1936 Summer Olympics by United States basketball player Carl Shy. It is one of several pieces of Shy’s memorabilia being offered by the California-based auction company in its Fall Premier online auction, which begins on … [Read more...] about Hoop History: 1936 Olympic Basketball Gold Medal at Auction
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Jesse Owens Olympic Gold Medal Sells for Record $1.47 Million
A Jesse Owens Olympic Gold Medal from his historic performance in the 1936 Olympics sold for $1,466,574 early Sunday, the highest price ever paid for a piece of Olympic memorabilia, in SCP Auctions’ fall auction. The record price surpassed that of a silver cup won by the winner of the first modern-day Olympic marathon in 1896 that sold for $865,000 in April 2012 and the … [Read more...] about Jesse Owens Olympic Gold Medal Sells for Record $1.47 Million
Wanna Buy a Discus? London Selling Olympic Memorabilia
Like their winter predecessors in Vancouver a couple of years ago, organizers of the 2012 Summer Games are selling off Olympic memorabilia to help pay for bringing the games to London. The "Official Sporting Memorabilia website of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games" has been busy with hundreds of items on the block and some already sold. The London organizing … [Read more...] about Wanna Buy a Discus? London Selling Olympic Memorabilia