Sports Collectibles

Online Certified Authentic Sports Collectibles and Sports Memorabilia Retailer

“Introducing NYSportsGear.com the online retailer of authentic, certified sports memorabilia and collectibles.

Bronx, NY, October 18, 2007 –(PR.com)– NYSportsGear.com was developed by experienced e-commerce entrepreneurs and passionate sports fans with the goal of providing the most extensive and customer friendly online store offering sports jerseys, sports apparel and sports collectibles. NYSportsGear.com has everything from Peyton Manning to Walter Payton; the newest of the new to the newest of the old; authentic and replica sports apparel representing today’s MVPs and the hottest in retro and throwback jerseys.

The NYSportsGear.com site is designed for serious and casual sports fans alike. NYSportsGear.com is proud to offer their customers jerseys, apparel and collectibles from the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, NCAA, NASCAR and more. The company features authentic and replica Majestic Athletic baseball jerseys, Reebok NBA and NHL apparel, NFL Equipment football gear, as well as sports fans’ other favorite brands. They boast a full line of Game Time watches, as well as everything else you can think of with a sports logo, including trash cans, blankets, sweat shirts, caps and t-shirts.

NYSportsGear.com is located in New York and love their New York sports teams but respect and bond with serious sports fans all over the world. NYSportsGear.com is honored to provide the best in pro and college sports jerseys, sports apparel and sports collectibles from fan’s favorite teams, players and brands. The company’s appreciation for competition extends to their business where they are dedicated to offering the best prices and fast shipping.

All of NYSportsGear.com’s memorabilia and collectibles are certified authentic by the most respected, top companies in the memorabilia industry.”

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The Future of Baseball

The Official KFVS12 and Heartland News Web Site
Jan 7, 2008
By: Holly Brantley

“CARTERVILLE, Ill. – One 1987 Topps Card is the only thing we could find with Roger Clemens name on it at the Baseball Card and Sports Memorabilia Show at John A. Logan College.

Part of that has to do with the fact that we’re in Cardinal and Cubs country here in the Heartland. The other has to do with the recent Mitchell Report, suggesting Clemens and others may have used performance enhancing drugs.

…Overall, cards of players who have been implicated are down 30 to 50 percent, dealers estimate. But, Fox says it’s hard to tell how long that will last.”

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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.

Scrambling so much that the team keeps selling out. That’s leaving a lot of Packers fans out in the cold hunting for the sideline cap as a holiday gift on sites like eBay.com. While the caps sell in stores for $17.95 – if you can find it – sellers on the online auction site are asking as much as $150.

…There’s even pressure to get this month’s Sports Illustrated from when Favre was named the magazine’s 2007 Sportsman of the Year.”

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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 contacting us,” said McKim, a historian working for the NASCAR Hall. “There are fans, relatives of former drivers and drivers getting in contact with us.

…Gathering memorabilia is just one part of the massive undertaking for the $154.5 million facility, scheduled to open during the first quarter of 2010 in downtown Charlotte, N.C.”

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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 leather bustier.

There are more than 1,700 memorabilia items – pictures, pucks, posters – bearing his image on EBay alone.

…As hockey’s first superstar of the cyber age, Pittsburgh Penguins star forward Sidney Crosby – who plays his first NHL games in Western Canada this week – lives in a world where every trivial scrap and moment of his life is deemed worthy of worldwide distribution.”

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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 Memory Lane Inc., of Tustin, Calif. The company is considered one of the premier sports collectible auctions houses in the country.

Mathewson is considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time and was one of the five original inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936.

Vintage baseball contracts have become more sought after in recent years by collectors, and that demand has resulted in escalating values for the items. The record for player-signed contracts is the $996,000 price realized for Babe Ruth’s 1919 rookie-year contract, which sold in June of 2005. Collectors will be watching the sale of this Mathewson contract closely to see where it ranks among the highest-priced contracts sold to date.”

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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 Show, a large sports collectibles exhibition starting today at the Dallas Convention Center.

…This will be the first time Prova will use the “mobile authentication”system during autograph sessions at this week’s Football Spectacular Show featuring NFL icons including Emmitt Smith, Troy Aikman, Michael Irvin, Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, Gayle Sayers, Earl Campbell, Thurman Thomas and many others. The Prova system records the exact time of the signature, the celebrity’s secure identification code and where the signature occurred. ”

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Memories may be worth more than money

Sunday, November 18, 2007
BY Tim Botos
REPOSITORY STAFF WRITER

“Two or three times a year though, baseball card and memorabilia dealers Mike Wheat and Wayne Varner swing for the fences.

Armed with thousands of dollars in cash, price guides, and decades of first-hand knowledge, the Pittsburgh men conduct sort of an auction in reverse. For three days last weekend, they invited anyone to bring pre-1970 sports cards and collectibles to a Hampton Inn hotel conference room, to sell to them.

…The card market softened in recent years. Internet auction sites, such as eBay, have helped change it. Collectors no longer have to travel to card conventions. The going prices are practically public record.

…Card and memorabilia dealers Mike Wheat and Wayne Varner are always interested in buying pre-1970 collectibles.”

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Barry Bonds collectibles a hard sell

Yahoo! News
By DON BABWIN, Associated Press Writer
Fri Nov 16, 2007

“CHICAGO – Ralph DeSantis started taking a baseball signed by Barry Bonds to memorabilia shows a while back, hoping someone would meet his $150 asking price. Two years later, no sale. DeSantis doesn’t figure he’ll do much better this weekend, either, now that baseball’s home run champion has been indicted. “I’m probably overstocked with one baseball,” he said.

Bonds’ legal trouble isn’t likely to help the market for items with his autograph or picture, predicted dealers gathered in suburban Chicago for a big show.”

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