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Question on Game worn hats experts?

shasta2112shasta2112 Posts: 22
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I was at a garage sale this morning and missed out on 2 Game Worn MLB Hats while looking through mid-late 80's crap cards. The game worn hats were Kevin Brown's (with Yankees) and Tony Clark's (with Tigers). They were official in nice packaging with a GAI cert etc. The guy bought them for $20 each. Just to throw salt in my wounds--how good of a deal was that?

Thanks

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  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    I wouldn't lose sleep over it, unless it was the hat that Brown threw his perfect game in (it wasn't) I'd not worry about it.

    Steve
    Good for you.
  • MooseDogMooseDog Posts: 1,948 ✭✭✭
    $20 each was definitely a good deal, but like WinPitcher said, nothing to lose sleep over. GU hats are collected but not nearly to the extent that jerseys or bats are. Also GU stuff is following the trend of third party authentication - i.e. GAI cert wouldn't add any value, so if you were going to sell you'd probably have to shell out more money for more paperwork increasing your costs.
  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,487 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I don't know anything about GU caps - the relative popularity of those hats - if real - would be based on whether some 'fans' were bidding.

    The Standard Catalog of Sports Memorabilia doesn't even list GU caps - so the popularity must be small - of course we're not factoring in high profile players of course.

    I got one thing to say tho - I want to find garage sales like that! image

    mike
    Mike
  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,253 ✭✭✭
    Im still looking for game worn caps of David Wells, especially as a Yankee. He used to auction them on ebay for charity. He would sharpie the date of the game, the score, and autograph the caps.

    As a side note to his caps he auctioned, he also auctioned his game worn glove and game baseballs all with the same info and autos.
  • fkwfkw Posts: 1,766 ✭✭
    Brown and Clark? uh OK

    Modern players will often use a different hat every game then sign it and off it goes into the overly massproduced modern memorabilia market.

    The problem with a game used hat (compared to a bat or uniform), is the same exact hat can be bought in stores by anyone.
  • TNTonPMSTNTonPMS Posts: 2,279 ✭✭
    Sometimes ya just stumble across the decent garage sales , most of the time for me it is purely by accident , If I am looking for memorabilia items and stuff like that, I am usually a day late and a dollar short .

    I would have liked to have picked up the Yankee game used cap , but would have probably taken both , but wouldn't have lost sleep over it unless it was a Reggie cap or better image

    That is when the loss of sleep starts to creep in .
  • shasta2112shasta2112 Posts: 22
    Thanks guys-- he had a Matt Clement hat from SD too. I passed-- I didn't even know if he was still in the league or not. Also, there were some autographed mini bats for $17 each. No one worth mentioning other than Renteria. I passed on that too.
  • TNTonPMSTNTonPMS Posts: 2,279 ✭✭
    Nice numbers 2112 <~~~~ Numbers I use for lots of passwords & stuff , also # 217 .

    I do not think anyone picks that number by accident , That is RUSH !
  • shasta2112shasta2112 Posts: 22
    Great band. Yes.
  • TNTonPMSTNTonPMS Posts: 2,279 ✭✭
    LOL . . . .YES, them too
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