It’s not too late to register and bid in Love of the Game Auctions‘ Winter, 2013 sale. The auction closes this Saturday, February 2, at 9:00 PM EST (the day before Super Bowl Sunday). The auction features nearly 400 lots of quality sports artifacts, including an excellent array of cards and memorabilia, including: A 1935 Silver […]
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The Winter, 2013 Love of the Game auction is closing this Saturday, February 2. Extended bidding will begin at 9PM EST on Saturday evening. If you have not placed bids before 9PM on Saturday, you will not be able to participate in extended bidding. In our last auction, one lucky bidder managed to register for the
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While we’ve got quite a bit of baseball memorabilia in our upcoming auction, we also have some great football memorabilia as well. This is, perhaps, our favorite piece in the entire auction. It’s a 1987 NFL “Game Day” Program celebrating the Pro Football Hall of Fame program, autographed by 46 stars of the game, mostly
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Famed baseball photographer Charles M. Conlon took the classic photo of Cleveland’s Nap Lajoie that we see represented here by famed baseball artist Arthur K. Miller. Measuring 14″ x 7″ before framing, the acrylic on masonite work was commissioned in 2006 and is a brilliant representation of the timeless image of Lajoie holding his bat,
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We’ve got such a great lineup of cards in this auction that it’s almost easy to forget the outstanding memorabilia offering that we’ve got in this sale. Perhaps our favorite piece is this beautiful broadside, advertising Ted Williams as the new sports columnist of the Boston Herald. Williams had an infamous relationship with sportswriters that
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Love of the Game is developing a reputation as a great resource for prewar baseball material. However, our current auction, much like our inaugural auction last fall, has an excellent selection of rare postwar cards. These cards are highlighted by a number of extremely difficult-to-obtain test issues, and one of the most rare modern issues
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Weighing in at just 36 players, the 1935 National Chicle football set is quite possibly the most important football set ever manufactured. With first-year cards of virtually every key subject in the set, as well as the hobby’s most valuable and treasured card – the legendary #34 Bronko Nagurski (featured in this auction), the set
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In 1963, the Baseball Hall of Fame commissioned a Long Island company named Sports Hall of Fame Inc. to produce miniature replicas of the Hall of Fame busts of 20 players. These replica busts were sold at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, and also at major league stadiums. The white, plastic busts were
