The earliest known game worn Babe Ruth jersey is going on the auction block. SCP Auctions announced Monday that it would offer the 1920 Ruth shirt in its spring auction slated to begin Monday, April 30. Ruth joined the Yankees after being sold by the Boston Red Sox in January of that year. The unrestored road jersey carries Ruth's stitched name inside the collar and had … [Read more...]
Wagner, Plank, Ruth, Mathewson Among Highlights in New Catalog
There are sports cards and sets ranging from less than $1,000 to $750,000 in Memory Lane Inc.’s upcoming I Own it Now catalog, many of them rarely offered. The dilemma for collectors is whether to pull the trigger at the listed price or wait a little while and try to save a few bucks. If there’s something you want, that wait can be agonizing. Other collectors may not be as … [Read more...]
Wagner Card Drawing Attention as Alternative Investment
Wall Street doesn't mess with sports memorabilia too much. When it comes to money, though, the financial world is all ears. After all, you need to be pretty rich to scoff at a little piece of cardboard that's often sold for several hundred thousand or a couple of million dollars. Going back to the 1970s, if not before, the T206 Honus Wagner card is sports collecting's poster … [Read more...]
T206 Wagner Card Goes on eBay
One of what are likely less than 100 T206 Honus Wagner cards in existence is on the eBay auction block. Memory Lane Inc. is offering the PSA 2 example from a long-time private collection that was recently broken up and sold. This Wagner shows a moderate crease across the bottom along with some edge and corner wear but is one of the more respectable examples to come up for … [Read more...]
First Items from Dreier Collection Up for Sale
The first items from the recently consigned Dreier Collection are being released for sale by Legendary Auctions. Eight items from the family’s multi-million dollar collection entrusted to Legendary Auctions are being offered via private sale, offering a small glimpse into quality of items set to be sold over the next two years as the collection is liquidated. The eight … [Read more...]
Super Collector’s Vintage Baseball Card Sets Now on the Market
Looking for a holiday gift for…yourself? Memory Lane has just launched a special I Own it Now catalog, featuring dozens of the finest decades-old baseball card sets ever pieced together. They are being made available for the first time and likely represent the highest graded group of vintage sets to be offered at one time. Consigned from of one of the hobby’s … [Read more...]
T206 Eddie Plank a Worthy Challenger to Wagner
Is a six-figure baseball card 'underrated'? If that card is the T206 Eddie Plank, it just might be. While the Honus Wagner card from vintage collecting's most popular set gets most of the attention inside and outside the hobby, the Plank card flies under the radar to those who haven't really studied it. Small headlines are generated when one comes to auction, but there are … [Read more...]
Iconic Players, Sets Part of Memory Lane Auction
From the first pro team to the tobacco card era, the arrival of bubble gum cards and even modern rarities, Memory Lane’s upcoming Winter Classics Auction will have a little something for everyone. Highlighted by a T206 Eddie Plank, an original Ty Cobb Tobacco tin, a 1902 Sporting Life Cabinets Honus Wagner and dozens of high grade cards from all eras, the auction begins this … [Read more...]
Program from First World Series Sells for $241,500
One of only two known surviving copies of the first World Series program sold at auction Saturday for a record-setting price of $241,500, the highest price ever paid for a World Series program. The only other program seen in public resides in the Baseball Hall of Fame. The winner, whose name hasn't been revealed, placed the winning bid of $210,00 over the phone during Hunt … [Read more...]
Cinci Duo Finally Gets Wagner Card Slabbed
It's been beaten up. Dragged through the mud. Cursed. Reviled. Verbally spanked. And that's just speaking metaphorically. The Honus Wagner baseball card Ray Edwards and John Cobb own is still in the same shape it was in when they say it was uncovered at an estate sale years ago, but the community of mainstream authenticators and collectors are convinced it's just … [Read more...]