Sports Collectibles

Okay, we’re hooked on the ticket memorabilia that are up for auction on eBay. While watching the RSS feed for one of our searches, we saw the following listing end today for a ticket from the famous third game from the 1932 World Series in which Babe Ruth supposedly called where his hit was [...]

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Upper Deck Withdraws Offer for Topps
Financial News – Yahoo! Finance
Tuesday August 21, 2007
“NEW YORK (AP) — The Upper Deck Co. on Tuesday withdrew its offer to buy rival baseball card maker The Topps Co., clearing one obstacle in the way of a proposed private equity takeover of the iconic sports memorabilia company.
Topps, maker of baseball [...]

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We reported earlier on the Mastro Auctions at the House of Blues in Cleveland, back on August 4, 2007, where the 1912 Pirates Cigarette set sold for close to a million dollars. Apparently there is some controversy over a warm-up shirt from North Carolina at the same auction, that was billed as belonging to [...]

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Boston Red Sox Hurler Matsuzaka Becomes the Ace of Upper Deck’s Staff
Financial News – Yahoo! Finance
Wednesday August 15, 2007
The Company Signs Exclusive Autograph and Memorabilia Deal with Daisuke
“CARLSBAD, Calif., Aug. 15 /PRNewswire/ — Daisuke Matsuzaka has made quite an impression on big league batters, most not wanting to stand in the box and face his [...]

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Sports Collectors Daily reports on the recent auction by Mastro Auctions at the House of Blues in Cleveland where Barry Bonds’ 70th home run ball from his record-breaking 2001 season sold for just $14,400, after previously being sold for $60,000. As well, some fantastic prices were realized for some early 20th century memorabilia.
Aaron Memorabilia [...]

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Forbes.com explains why Barry Bonds’ 756th home run ball won’t make the list.
The Most Expensive Sports Collectibles – Forbes.com
Forbes.com
Tom Van Riper, 07.25.07
“Sports memorabilia collectors aren’t exactly looking ahead with rabid enthusiasm to Barry Bonds’ record 756th home run ball hitting the auction market.
As Bonds sets his sights on Henry Aaron’s career home run mark–he needs [...]

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