There were phenomenal finds and disturbing discoveries. Record revenue and sensational selling prices. No matter the month, there was something collectors were talking about this year. In the first of a two-part series, we look back at the last year in the hobby with some happenings from the first half of 2019. The year began in strange fashion with the viral … [Read more...]
Scoresheet from Wilt’s 100-Point Game, Big O’s Olympic Memorabilia Pace SCP Sale
A signed score sheet from Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game in 1962 sold for $214,579 early Sunday morning as SCP Auctions wrapped up its Spring Auction. Consigned by a friend of the late Toby DeLuca, who kept score for Philadelphia Warriors radio announcer Bill Campbell, the sheet chronicled Chamberlain's still unsurpassed scoring night from a game against the New York … [Read more...]
SCP Auctions Opens Spring Catalog with Oscar, Wilt, Ozzie, Vintage Cards
The newly-crowned finest set of 1922 American Caramel E121 baseball cards joins items from the collection of Basketball Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson and Baseball Hall of Famer Ozzie Smith among the headliners in SCP Auctions’ Spring Catalog Auction. The event kicks off the company's 40th anniversary. Launched Wednesday, the auction also includes a score sheet from … [Read more...]
Scoresheet from Wilt’s 100 Point Game Consigned to SCP Auctions
Few relics exist from the March 2, 1962 game in Hershey, PA in which Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points, a single game record that still stands and isn’t likely to be broken. One big one, however, is about to go up for sale. SCP Auctions will sell the score sheet kept that night by long-time media statistician Toby DeLuca in its spring auction. Signed by … [Read more...]
Basketball HOF-SCP Auctions Launch First Event
After a one-year hiatus, the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame Auction has returned with new partner SCP Auctions now handling the annual event. The auction is now an online only affair that tips off Wednesday, August 3, and runs through Saturday, August 20, at www.scpauctions.com. In late 2014, the Hall severed ties with Grey Flannel Auctions, which had been conducting the … [Read more...]
‘Sports Detectives’ Aims to Solve Memorabilia Mysteries
The Smithsonian Channel will debut a new series next month focused on hunting down the truth of what happened to some of sports’ missing treasures. Sports Detectives will go in search of items from some of the most iconic moments in sports history that have seemingly been lost to time including the ball used in the 1962 game in which Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points, the … [Read more...]
Whereabouts of Wilt’s 100 Point Ball Remain a Mystery
It's one of the holy grails of sports memorabilia. Along with Bill Mazeroski's Series-winning ball in 1960 and before that, the Shot Heard Round the World in '51, the basketball used in the Wilt Chamberlain 100 point game 50 years ago is still missing. Or is it? What really became of the ball after that historic night in Hershey Pa., in 1962 has been lost over time. … [Read more...]