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Auction Block: Famed Charity
Eric AngevineThere's a saying that goes around the archives and collections desks at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. "You'll be amazed by what we have, and you'll be...
Blog Entry | Conversation | May 18, 2009Auction Block: Lord of the Rings
Eric AngevineWhen the news came over the wire last week that former Bulls guard Randy Brown would be selling his trio of championship rings as part of bankruptcy p...
Blog Entry | Conversation | May 04, 2009Auction Block: A Waxy Buildup
Eric AngevineLet's be honest with one another, shall we? We badly misuse the word "unique" in the memorabilia business. We use a word that literally means one-of-...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 27, 2009Auction Block: Special Bidding
Eric Angevine...relations with local sports teams and figures. With Delaware sitting smack dab between Baltimore and Philadelphia, unique baseball items dominate the sports offerings. But there are also enticing experiences related to college football, NASCAR, and...
Blog Entry | Conversation | April 06, 2009Auction Block: On This Day
Eric Angevine...champion; the NBA and NHL are in the home stretch, but the playoffs haven't begun yet; baseball is in spring training, and even the WBC reigned in some attention. So, rather than looking ahead...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 24, 2009Auction Block: Pricing the Classic
Eric AngevineWorld Baseball Classic. Are any of those words accurate? The one in the middle works: despite the guaranteed presence...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 09, 2009Auction Block: Negro League Treasures
Eric Angevine...comprises 80-plus items, valued anywhere from $250 for a pair of ticket stubs from the "ABC Baseball Club" of Indianapolis, up to thousands for items featuring Satchel Paige or the 1947 Cleveland Buckeyes championship...
Blog Entry | Conversation | March 02, 2009Auction Block: Spring Training Edition
Eric Angevine...Louis Cardinals practiced for the upcoming season in exotic locales like Hot Springs, Arkansas, and Tulsa, Oklahoma. Baseball didn't take a break during World War II, and neither did spring training. Rationing meant that...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 23, 2009Auction Block: Kobe Bryant Gets the Obama Artistic Treatment
Eric AngevineMost Americans know the name Shepard Fairey from the successful presidential campaign of Barack Obama (or the police blotter). The artist's red and bl...
Blog Entry | Conversation | February 09, 2009Auction Block: The Inaug Shop
Eric Angevine...George "Gipper" Gipp in the film Knute Rockne: All American, and his turn as a football and baseball announcer in Iowa was mentioned from time to time. For the Bush family, it was baseball. Bush...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 20, 2009Auction Block: Deadballin'
Eric AngevineIn the world of baseball collecting, trading cards of the fifties and sixties are the hottest commodity. They are scarce but not...
Blog Entry | Conversation | January 05, 2009Auction Block: Own the Movies
Eric Angevine...man has experience with sweat. In the summer of 2007, Sanchez was in Cooperstown, touring the National Baseball Hall of Fame for the first time in his life. As he walked through the exhibits, one...
Blog Entry | Conversation | December 15, 2008Auction Block: Going Public
Eric Angevine...purchaser. Bronx native Gary Cypres has never been stingy with his own collection, which includes artifacts from baseball and football to tennis and rowing. Now a resident of Los Angeles, the successful businessman has displayed...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 24, 2008Auction Block: A Nice Bust
Eric Angevine...His Airness in Chicago, Roberto Clemente in Pittsburgh, Phog Allen in Lawrence. A recent exhibition at the Baseball Hall of Fame focused on artwork inspired by the national pastime. The images included Negro Leagues legend...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 17, 2008Auction Block: Any Given Tuesday
Eric Angevine...often do.) When a governor winds up to throw out the first pitch at a major league baseball game, we don't want to see the ball bounce before it crosses home plate. It's...
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