You have some vintage baseball memorabilia that you’d like to sell. Maybe it’s the proverbial shoebox of cards in your grandparents’ attic. Maybe they’re treasured items collected over many years. Whatever it is, every piece of memorabilia has a story behind it. A vintage sports auction house exists to connect every special piece of memorabilia, […]
As an internet sports auction house that specializes in matching quality consignments with experienced bidders, we’re fascinated with how baseball card prices serve as a proxy for people’s connection to not just sports, but to nostalgia and culture. While there are lots of cards made every year that have some interest among hobbyists, there’s always
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Andrew Aronstein Joins Love of the Game Auctions as Inventory Manager Strategic Hire Responds to Sustained Growth for Hudson Valley-based Internet Sports Auction House KINGSTON, N.Y., Sept. 20, 2021 – Sports memorabilia industry veteran Andrew Aronstein has joined Kingston-based Love of the Game Auctions (LOTG) as inventory manager. The strategic hire coincides with a strong period of growth for the internet
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It’s been nearly 10 years since we sat in our first office, weathering the wrath of Superstorm Sandy on the night our first auction closed. A lot has changed in the hobby since then, but our commitment to quality, to integrity, and to the history and beauty of this great hobby remains as strong as
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I’m heartbroken to report the news of the passing of Ted Patterson. Dave Yoken, the original founder of Collectable, called me one day in 2015 to tell me he’d met a former broadcaster down in Baltimore that had a great collection, and was looking for a new auction house to consign with. Dave was kind
The company that provides our hosting service is experiencing technical issues that are forcing our website offline. While we await service to be restored, we will continue assembling packages and manually processing payments from our November auction. Tracking numbers and check payments will be posted to the accounts of winning bidders when service is restored.
Finding quality consignments is hard work. Doing it well demands discipline, tenacity, and an ability to locate quality material, amidst cutthroat competition. It’s not as if quality consignments fall in your lap. Except one day this past spring, that’s exactly what happened. A quality consignment fell in my lap. I received a text message from
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Kingston, NY (Feb 26, 2020) – Love of the Game Auctions is honored to announce the pending sale of one of the hobby’s most popular and enduring baseball card sets: the 1914 Cracker Jack issue. Cumulatively, the set ranks #5 on PSA’s Current Finest Set Registry. Each card from the set, almost entirely graded
