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Went To an Auction Today Picked Up A Few Interesting Items (Pictures Added)

MooseDogMooseDog Posts: 1,948 ✭✭✭
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Just wanted to share...

Went to an auction of sports memorabilia today. Around here (SF Bay Area) these things are usually pretty uninteresting but I was intrigued by this one because there were several A's related items up for bid. There were a few lots of 1980s era sets and lots, I didn't have time to inspect them but one guy told me that cards were missing, and the stars were definitely not separated. Not being a huge card guy I passed on all but the 1960s and 1970s lots but those ended up going for much more than I wanted to spend, though to be honest there may have been some really nice 1969s in one lot. The bidding got fairly heavy for that one. Though nothing spectactular, I was pretty happy to come home with several lots including:

Old Stan Musial button (anyone know anything about this? From a Stan Musial day maybe?)

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Nolan Ryan 6th no-hitter ticket stub (two of these actually, unfortunately not in perfect shape)

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Really nice condition 1968 Oakland A's yearbook (1st year). This is a bear to find in good condition, this one is close to NM. There was also another lesser condition '68 book as well as F-G 1969-75 books and some 1970s era game programs.

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Couple of lots of books one of which included this early (1975) attempt at a baseball price guide not just for cards, but all kinds of memorabilia...

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I noticed a list of collectors in the back and lo and behold my name was in there. Then I remembered that in one of the old collector newsletters of the time, either The Trader Speaks or early SCD there was an ad or article mentioning that you could send in your name, address and collecting interests and they would be published in the book. While going through the names (triggering a ton of memories of guys I used to trade with) I came across this one:

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Bunch of Catfish Hunter stuff including two signed recipe booklets, a nice signed 8x10 and this near perfect single signed ball:

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And last but not least the one item I really wanted!

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Comments

  • rise2itrise2it Posts: 160
    Some very nice stuff - especially like the A's yearbook and the 'Stan the Man' pin.

    Collecting my sports heroes, Roger Staubach and Kirby Puckett.
  • jmbkb4jmbkb4 Posts: 2,963
    YOU'RE KEITH OLBERMANN????????

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  • AUPTAUPT Posts: 806 ✭✭✭
    While there are authentic Musial pins of that design, it has also been faked in large numbers. There used to be a seller on eBay selling lots of the Musial fakes along with Mantle, Maris, DiMaggio, etc. He's probably still on there.
  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭
    That's some really cool stuff, moose.

    What's the story behind the orange Finley ball?
    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
  • StingrayStingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭


    << <i>That's some really cool stuff, moose.

    What's the story behind the orange Finley ball? >>



    LINK
  • MooseDogMooseDog Posts: 1,948 ✭✭✭
    Stingray - stown's reply with the the link pretty much covers the story of the Finley orange balls. Finley had the balls made around 1970 and every now and then you'd see one, players playing catch with one. There was at least one spring training played in Arizona with them. I don't think anyone really knows how many were made, I do remember Dick Dobbins having a box at one of his card shows back in the early 1980s. My uneducated guess is that the number is in the low hundreds. I wish I would have gotten a couple back then.

    Like everything else, there are counterfeits (bad ones) out there.

    And, the holy grail of these would be having one signed by Finley. I know of two of those in private collections.

    jmbkb4


    << <i> YOU'RE KEITH OLBERMANN???????? >>



    No, but I did say at a Holday Inn Express last night...
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