Baseball Memorabilia...

Posts: 2706 · Posted: Apr 29, 2002 3:37 am

Anyone have any valued (literally and figuratively!) baseball memoribilia? For me, I have a few signed Mcgwire pieces I have from his days in Oakland during a preseason Fanfest. He's a solid guy and I'm hearing rumblings of a comeback!!

Posts: 476 · Posted: Apr 29, 2002 12:28 pm

my friend has a 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates World Series Baseball autographed by the whole team, wish I had it considering how much its worth with all those great players on it. :cool

Posts: 138 · Posted: Apr 29, 2002 3:33 pm

I have several prized possessions, that stem from the baseball world.

I guess #1 on the list is a signed baseball by the Big Red Machine, circa 1976...with all the big names on it. A lot of the stuff I have is thanks to my father, who worked in the Reds front office during the 70's.

#2 - A signed lithograph of Pete Rose's 4192 hit...signed by Pete to me personally.

#3 - A signed Cecil Fielder rookie card, who, as alot of you already know...is my favorite player ever.

#4 - One day, I'll have this little championship trophy, handed out to Reds employees, from those on the field all the way down. It is from the 75 and 76 seasons, and my dad won't part with it yet.

#5 - An actual Reds uniform from the mid-70's, once worn by Dave Concepcion, who was a friend of my father's at the time. The temptation to wear it is so strong that sometimes I have to shackle myself to the floor. Luckily there's no way I could fit into it, so it would be left looking like the Incredible Hulk had decided to take up baseball. That keeps me from trying it on.

Well, there's the cream of the crop, but I've got a lot of stuff, mostly from the Reds, during the Big Red Machine era, although I've come across a lot since then as well.

:veryhappy

Posts: 75 · Posted: May 01, 2002 11:13 pm

I have an a-rod signed ball. a few game used bats and a bunch of d-backs autos etc....

Posts: 809 · The voice inside your head Joined: 09 Apr 2002 Posts: 809

I have a lithograph signed by the greatest hitter ever to live, Ted Williams. I have a bunch of things signed by Carl Yaztremski, who has absolutely no personality.

Posts: 2987 · Posted: May 02, 2002 1:57 am

I have an autographed picture of my favorite baseball memory... Mookie running down the line with Buckner looking back at the ball... signed by both of them...

Posts: 809 · The voice inside your head Joined: 09 Apr 2002 Posts: 809

Nice Wang, rub some salt in the wound.....

I am surprised Buckner signed it, as he's tried very hard to avoid anything to do with that game.

Posts: 1020 · Posted: May 02, 2002 3:53 pm

well guys... I have nothing. NOTHING at all. What would be something worth getting??? I'm a Yankees fan. What would you guys say would be something cool as my first???

Posts: 197 · FIC Starter Joined: 12 May 2002 Location: Maine Posts: 197

Buckner signed it? Im surprised he didnt just rip it up. Of course mookie probably wouldve kissed it when you handed it to him. A lot of people dont know that Buckner was actually a good baseball player. they only remember him for the E-3. At least thats what I remember him for. :cry

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I have baseballs autographed by ryan noylan and don mattingly...I dont know if they are of any value..

Posts: 682 · Posted: Jun 23, 2002 8:54 pm

I have a Randy Moss authentic jersey signed, and tons and tons of Indians and Browns autographs.

Posts: 809 · The voice inside your head Joined: 09 Apr 2002 Posts: 809

I am shocked Moss actually took some effort to do something :amused

Posts: 682 · Posted: Jun 24, 2002 9:50 am

Yeah I was too....lol! :veryhappy

Posts: 1020 · Posted: Jun 24, 2002 11:32 am

Yeah I was too....lol!

Posts: 6169 · Posted: Jun 24, 2002 1:25 pm

Well, a lot of my most meaningful items are Sandberg items:

Auto game-used batting gloves
Auto game-used bats -- 1 a year before he retired, and one a team bat from his first season in Chicago
Auto game-used glove
(all I need is a uni and I'm set) :veryhappy

A litho commemorating his 2,000th hit, auto and #'d of 200

A Nike poster I stumbled upon here in Tulsa (I'm sure they were more plentiful in Chicago) -- shot from the ground looking up as he's turning a double play, with some of the LF wall and a lot of blue sky behind him -- just beautiful -- auto, matted and framed.

I probably have at least 80 signed balls and more 8X10s

I went to a show in Nashville in the mid 80s -- just as the start of the super shows began. Rose, Bench, Morgan, Perez -- Snider, Reese -- Musial, Slaughter, Schoendiest, Brock -- DiMaggio, Mantle -- Terry, Mays -- I know I'm forgetting a few. But at that time, it was unheard of. In fact, when I went to the National Baseball Card Convention in St. Louis 5-6 years ago, I didn't even care about getting autographs since it became such a business and unaffordable.

Anyway, the pieces I got signed that meant the most to me when I was in Nashville:

My dad was a big Musial fan and he got this record album when I was a kid that was like an instructional recording (what would be an instructional video now, I guess). You see those albums every once in a great while at shows. I had him sign that.

I had a cool 16X20 of Joe D. swinging with the catcher and ump in the pic that I had him sign (and matted and framed). But what got him talking was this 8X10 of Bob Feller (man, is HE a piece of work) pitching to Joe D. from behind the plate that I had Feller sign about a year before.

Joe D. signed it, sat back, smiled and said, "Ah, yes, Bobby! Where did you see him?" I S-O-M-E-H-O-W

choked out, "Tulsa".

And he spoke a few more words that never reached my ears because

I just exchanged words with Joe DiMaggio. :freaked

REALLY, really nice guy.

I saw Mantle a few years later again in Tulsa and got a nice 16X20 signed from him. His hands were like meaty vises. Man.

I also have every Topps set back to 65. I put together all of them from 95 on back. It just got to the point that there is SO MUCH NEW CRAP out there you can't go to a show or look in a magazine and find a simple. ordinary. plain-old. like-I-grew-up-with. Topps set any more. It got to be a real pain to put the sets together, so I just buy 'em and hardly look at 'em. :ack

One nice thing that I tried to do was just have the opportunity to stand in front of all the greats possible, shake their hand and tell them, "Thank you" -- for the autograph, for coming, for taking five seconds to look up and look me in the eye, for shaking my hand, for the moment.

And I think that have, within all possible means.

Except for one.

Teddy Ballgame.

While his health was good, and when rarely went to shows, he never came anywhere near Tulsa -- not even Dallas, which would be a logical (and reasonably close) location.

Yes, I have a baseball and 8X10 --

THANK YOU, JOHN HENRY :tic --

but I never had the opportunity to meet the greatest hitter of all time. And I'm certain I won't.

ANYWAY -- that's an idea of what I got.

Wouldn't mind having one of those World Series trophies if you don't have room for it. :doh