In building our first auction, one of the things that I’m discovering is how quickly the auction is defining itself, in terms of what kind of items we’ll have to offer. The tagline “A curated selection of sophisticated sports artifacts” couldn’t be more true. One of the places you’ll see it right off the bat …
I don’t think there has. The Sporting News voted him the best pro football player ever, which is a pretty serious accolade. We’ve got some excellent Jim Brown cards in our auction. I thought it would be cool to show them to you and let them speak for themselves.
Our friend Todd, who runs the blog Tales from the American Football League, blogs about Lance Alworth today. He’s got a pretty cool replica of Alworth’s Hall of Fame bust. Last week we received our own Alworth item, this mint condition copy of his 1964 Topps football card. It was part of a nice consignment …
Once in a while, a new hobby discovery turns the collecting world on its ear. With decades of people collecting and cataloging cards, how is it that there can be an undiscovered card issue? And yet it’s happened in recent memory, with the 1921 Herpolsheimers, 1916 Tango Eggs, and 1920 Peggy Popcorn sets, among others. …
So far, we’ve focused this blog on cards. Baseball and football. We’ve got other things in the inaugural auction. But we’re going to ease you in slowly with this fantastic autographed 1962 Topps special card of the subject of yesterday’s blog entry, Mickey Mantle. Card #318 from that set illustrates the powerful left-handed swing of …
No. So we have Mickey. We’re proud to offer his true “rookie card,” among others – this collector-grade 1951 Bowman. Still a card worth thousands, this particular example has a clean surface but two soft corners and weaker centering that bring it below EX condition. Still, it would be difficult to find a nicer 4 …
We love Dizzy Dean. He was positively superhuman in 1934. Consider this: He pitched in fifty games in 1934. Fifty. In a 154-game season, that means Diz pitched in a third of his team’s games. And he won thirty. And in the 1934 World Series, he pitched in three games, 26 innings in total. Twenty-six innings in three …
I grew up watching Roger Staubach play. Actually, I grew up watching Danny White play, in Staubach’s shadow. As a Cowboys fan in the early 1980s, White was forever compared to Staubach – and the “can’t win the big one” tag pretty much followed White year after year. I really only watched Staubach in his final …
