Former Kansas City Royals owner Avron B. Fogelman’s vast collection of sports memorabilia is going to have a new home. The Boca Raton resident has turned it all over to Florida Atlantic University. The total gift, valued at more than $10 million including memorabilia and cash, is the fifth largest one-time donation in the university’s history. The collection … [Read more...]
Notes: Texas’ Bobblehead King; Late Writer’s Hobby Passion; Leaf at the Summit
If there’s a bobblehead giveaway anywhere near the Dallas-Ft. Worth area, you can bet Johnnie Lehew will be there. For the last 16 years, he’s been collecting baseball and other sports nodders to the point that he can only get one car in his two-car garage. He’s got a rotating display inside his home as well…and a few in the closets. The Dallas News stopped by for a … [Read more...]
Notes: Collectors Profiled; 1971 Topps Sheet; the $1.98 Football Hartland
Their post-season lasted just one game and while fans in and around Baltimore were disappointed, there was at least one guy in Iowa who was also a little down in the dumps. Terry Sullivan doesn’t have to look far, though, to recall when the Orioles were on top. Sullivan lives in Davenport, about 850 miles from Camden Yards. While most folks in that neck of the woods root … [Read more...]
Chance Meeting with Champ Led to Collecting Passion
Muhammad Ali loved being Muhammad Ali. It’s apparent in every story that’s been told about him since his death. Each tale seems better than the last, with average folks relating stories of Ali being unfailingly kind and generous to fans, no matter how famous he became. Among the best we’ve heard so far comes from a tiny town in the Midwest. It came at the height of Ali’s … [Read more...]
Tips for Insuring Sports Memorabilia
by Carrie Van Brunt-Wiley Why should you worry about insuring sports memorabilia you own? Because the biggest threat to your collection of baseball cards, signed footballs or basketballs and game jerseys is not that your wife or significant other will clean out the home office and throw them away. You also have to worry about fire, theft and even water or other damage to … [Read more...]