Sports Collectibles

Fans scrambling to find Green Bay Packers knit caps
Green Bay Press-Gazette
December 18, 2007
By Emily Fredrix
Associated Press writer
“MILWAUKEE – Brett Favre probably didn’t do much to score one. But tons of Green Bay Packers fans are scrambling to find the gold-and-white knit caps he and other players have been wearing on the sidelines in recent weeks.
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Putting the pieces together
Sports – South Carolina Now (SCNow.com)
Thursday, Dec 06, 2007 – 12:23 AM
By Lou Bezjak
“Buz McKim is staying pretty busy these days. There isn’t a week that goes by that someone isn’t calling or e-mailing McKim about a piece of memorabilia for the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
“Every week, someone is coming up or [...]

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Steroids Report a Concern Among Baseball Collectors
WRAL.com
Dec. 14, 2007
“The cloud of steroids-abuse allegations surrounding Major League Baseball after Thursday’s long-awaited, much anticipated Mitchell Report is already having a negative impact on dozens of people in the Triangle.
…They said Friday that the steroids controversy is hurting the values of collectibles of the players involved.”
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Pittsburgh’s Sidney Crosby becomes hockey’s marketing icon for the cyber age
Yahoo! News
Dean Bennett, THE CANADIAN PRESS
Dec. 4, 2007
“EDMONTON – He’s the subject of hundreds of Internet discussion groups that compare him to Jesus Christ, ask for his hand in marriage or seek to know him better in language as subtle as spiked heels and a [...]

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Rare Piece of Baseball History Heading to the Auction Block
Yahoo! Finance
Wednesday November 28, 2007
“TUSTIN, Calif., Nov. 28 /PRNewswire/ — A one-of-a-kind piece of baseball history could set a new standard for values of the sport’s most historic documents on Dec. 8, when the rookie-year baseball contract of Hall of Famer Christy Mathewson is sold by [...]

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Sirit Plug-n-Play Readers Authenticate Sports Memorabilia
Reuters
Thu Nov 29, 2007
“Sirit Inc. (“Sirit”) (TSX: SI),a leading provider of radio frequency identification (“RFID”) technology,announced today that Prova Group, Inc. (“Prova”) has selected Sirit’s Plug-n-Play SDIO reader as the RFID platform for their sports memorabilia authentication application. The portable reader solution will be used exclusively at the Football Spectacular [...]

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