Lots going on here at Love of the Game. First and foremost, we’ve got a brand-new website. Believe it or not, it’s been nearly five years since we launched LOTG, and while we’ve been working really hard on presenting quality auctions and designing beautiful, useful auction catalogs, we haven’t spent a whole lot of time […]
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Newly-discovered horde of rare baseball cards to be auctioned November 19 HACKETTSTOWN, N.J., October 31, 2016 – Beginning in 1908, when “Take Me Out To The Ballgame” became one of the year’s most popular songs, the Cracker Jack brand has been synonymous with baseball. Today, the company’s baseball cards are likely to provide a New
Next week, in addition to our eagerly-anticipated Fall Premier Auction, we will be launching our inaugural Ringside Auction, which features approximately 250 lots of boxing-specific cards and memorabilia. The auction was curated in conjunction with Adam Warshaw, author of America’s Great Boxing Cards. Adam helped with lotting and descriptions, and we’re really enthusiastic about the result, which
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Of all the players of the Deadball Era, Christy Mathewson is among the most revered among hobbyists. The legend of the “Christian Gentleman” as exactly that – a college educated gentleman, playing a sport at the time often reserved for miscreants, led him to be one of the most popular and well-liked players of his
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Dennis Clotworthy’s outstanding book Al Kaline’s Last Bat Boy is a wonderful memoir of his growing up around the Detroit Tigers, filled with warmth and humor, and fascinating anecdotes about his time as the team’s batboy in the early 1970s. During the 1974 season, Clotworthy witnessed the end of an era, with the release of fan favorite
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Along with the Series 8 card of Shoeless Joe Jackson, the Casey Stengel card is one of the two key rarities of the T210 Old Mill issue. The first pro card of the future “Old Professor” is depicted here as an outfielder with the Maysville Rivermen of the Blue Grass League. Stengel would play three
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Expectations were high for the New York Yankees entering the 1979 season. Coming off two consecutive World Series victories and one of the greatest comebacks the game had ever seen, the Yankees had an All-Star lineup, had added All-Stars Tommy John and Luis Tiant to their pitching staff, and had a strong bullpen anchored by
Since our last catalog auction, we’ve made a number of references to the Dennis Clotworthy Collection. With our spring auction right around the corner, it makes sense to provide a more formal introduction to the collection. Born in Malta, Dennis Clotworthy came to the United States with his family in 1963. Settling in Detroit, he
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