Innholdsfortegnelse for June 21, 2019 i Sports Collectors Digest

It was a 1978 Topps Football card of Roger Staubach that initially pulled me into the sports trading card hobby. My friends and I started down the path of collecting football and baseball cards when we were in grade school. It wasn’t long after that that my brothers gave me a stack of football cards they had accumulated. The majority of the football cards in my collection were from the early 1980s, but the stack of football cards from my brothers contained cards from the 1970s. I started looking through the stack of cards to see what I had. There was a 1970 Topps O.J. Simpson – his rookie card. There was a 1972 Topps Joe Namath card, which was actually in decent condition. The Simpson card had rounded corners.…

GAME-WORN JERSEYS, CHAMPIONSHIP RINGS SET HOBBY RECORDS IN $3.4M HERITAGE SPORTS CATALOG AUCTION – The world’s largest collectibles auctioneer welcomed nearly 2,000 unique bidders to Heritage Auctions’ latest Sports Memorabilia Catalog Auction May 17-18, dropping the hammer on more than $3.4 million in bids placed in a highly competitive sale. Game-worn jerseys and championship rings provided many of the top results, including a wide array of record prices. Roy Campanella’s 1956 Brooklyn Dodgers jersey supplied the event’s top result. The $108,000 sale price was just the second gamer from the Hall of Fame catcher to reach six figures. A $96,000 sale price for a 2016 New England Patriots Super Bowl ring crushed the standing mark for a modern championship ring lacking superstar player provenance. “All that glittered came up gold…

Roy Halladay’s journey to the Baseball Hall of Fame followed an unusual path—right through the self-help aisle of a Florida bookstore. At that bookstore, Halladay’s wife Brandy found a bible of sorts that helped guide the talented pitcher not only through his baseball career, but through life as well. That book inspired Halladay to win over 200 games, pick up two Cy Young Awards, and pitch both a perfect game and a no-hitter during his 16 years in the major leagues (1998–2013). The 6-foot-6 right-hander was going through a difficult period in his baseball career in 2001. He was having such a hard time on the mound that the 1995 first-round draft pick of the Toronto Blue Jays was thinking about quitting the game altogether. Halladay was depressed and discouraged,…

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1. 1957 Topps: Bart Starr’s rookie card shows him in a close-up portrait as a fresh-faced rookie and in one of those classic jump-pass poses. This is one of the few places you’ll see Starr wearing No. 42. In Near-Mint condition, it gets especially pricey; Heritage Auctions sold a PSA 9 specimen for $288,000 in 2017. The same year, at the same auction house, a PSA 8 sold for $12,000. In 2018, Heritage offered another PSA 8 Starr rookie and got slightly less: $10,800. 2. 1958 Topps: Starr’s second-year card finds him wearing his recognizable No. 15 in the Packers’ green and gold, posing as if he’s under center. The photo window is oval-shaped, giving the design a unique look; the lime-green border and yellow lettering provides color. In 2017,…

BART AND BILLY — The world of sports lost two of its finest on back-to-back days last month. On May 26, Green Bay Packers quarterback Bart Starr died at age 83, and a day later, baseball star Bill Buckner died at 69. Starr, who led the Packers to five NFL championships, went into the Football Hall of Fame in 1977, as soon as he was eligible. Many say Buckner should be in baseball’s Hall of Fame, but he’s been on the outside looking in. Both are often recalled for singular moments. If there’s one play that defined Starr’s toughness, it’s his quarterback sneak to beat Dallas and advance to Super Bowl II. For Buckner, the play that defined his career, unfortunately, is the error he made as Boston’s first baseman…

Bart Starr Hall of Fame quarterback Bart Starr died May 26. He was 85. After attending college at Alabama, Starr was selected by the Green Bay Packers in the 17th round of the 1956 NFL Draft. He didn’t become the starting quarterback for the Packers until the 1960 season. With Starr as the starting quarterback, the Packers won NFL championships in 1961, 1962 and 1965, as well as the first two Super Bowls in 1967 and 1968. Starr was named the MVP in both Super Bowls. He was also named the NFL’s MVP for the 1966 season. Starr is often remembered for his quarterback sneak in the waning seconds of the Ice Bowl. He retired following the 1971 season, his 16th in the NFL. Starr coached the Packers for eight…

North America’s greatest hockey show for collectors lived up to its name and reputation once more with a generous array of autograph and photo ops, as well as special features like auctions, wrapper redemptions, and Q&A sessions with big name stars. The Toronto Sport Card & Memorabilia Expo, held May 3-5 at The International Center in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, also continued its welcome pattern of offering something for non-hockey fan. The show featured Toronto Blue Jays legend and fan favorite Robbie Alomar, and Montreal Expos stars Steve Rogers and Baseball Hall of Famer Vladimir Guerrero. You can bet that most of the questions Vlad faced were about his son, emerging superstar Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. Hockey legends on hand for autograph signings included Brett, Bobby and Dennis Hull, Phil Esposito, Frank…

ALABAMA Jun 29 AL, Fultondale. Central Alabama Sports Card And Memorabilia Show, Fultondale BSDA Friendship Hall, 1024 Old Walker Chapel Road, Fultondale, AL 35068. SH: 9am-1pm, A: Free. Contact: Adam Berendt – PH: 205-386-0223 Aug 17 AL, Fultondale. Central Alabama Sports Card And Memorabilia Show, Fultondale BSDA Friendship Hall, 1024 Old Walker Chapel Road, Fultondale, AL 35068. SH: 9am-1pm, A: Free. Contact: Adam Berendt – PH: 205-386-0223 Sep 7 AL, Scottsboro. Scottsboro Sports Card & Memorabilia Show, Goose Pond Civic Center, 1165 Ed Hembree Dr., Scottsboro, AL. T: 75, F: $25-$30, A: Free. Contact: Stephen Moore – PH: 256-599-0989, Website: www.jacksonssportscards.com ARIZONA Jun 22 AZ, Phoenix. Northwest Valley Coin & Card Show, La-Quinta Inn, 2510 W Greenway Road, Phoenix, AZ 85023. SH: 9am-3pm, T: 35, F: $40-$50, A: Free. Jul…

Everything was big in 1976. It was the year of America’s Bicentennial, marking a landmark birthday for the USA. It was an election year as America’s voters went to the polls to elect a president. It was an Olympic year, with the world’s greatest amateur athletes heading to Montreal. For the first time, the world would become familiar with names like Bruce Jenner, Sugar Ray Leonard and Nadia Comaneci. It was also a big year for American professional basketball. The National Basketball Association would that summer expand by four teams through the admission of the New York Nets, Indiana Pacers, San Antonio Spurs, and Denver Nuggets from the now defunct American Basketball Association. Players on other ABA clubs were subject to a dispersal draft of NBA clubs. The NBA honchos…

1. $139,999: 1921 E121 American Caramel Babe Ruth (PSA 7) 2. $82,500: 2000 Playoff Contenders Tom Brady Championship Ticket, #43/100, auto (BGS 8) 3. $71,802: 2009 Bowman Chrome Mike Trout Blue Refractor, #74/150, auto (PSA 10) 4. $70,000: 1948 Leaf Jackie Robinson (SGC 8) 5. $60,112: 1966-67 Topps Bobby Orr (SGC 9) 6. $51,300: 2006 Bowman Chrome Clayton Kershaw Red Refractor, #1/5, auto (BGS 9.5) 7. $50,101: 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle (PSA 5) 8. $50,099: 1948-49 Bowman George Mikan (PSA 8) 9. $34,886: 2003-04 Bowman Chrome LeBron James Gold Refractor, #21/50, auto (BGS 10) 10. $33,100: 1961-62 Fleer Wilt Chamberlain (PSA 8.5)…

2019 Luminance Football The 2019 version of Luminance Football is scheduled to be released on June 7. Each box includes three autographs, one memorabilia card, five parallels and 12 rookie cards, on average. Highlights of 2019 Luminance Football include: • Full-bleed action photography and plenty of parallels and inserts of all the top stars and rookies the NFL has to offer. • The hottest new rookies featuring updated team information from the 2019 NFL Draft. • Rookie on-card autographs in Draft Day Signatures, which fall one per box; these parallel to Gold ink (numbered to 25 or less) and Blue ink (numbered to five or less). • Inserts at an average of four per box, including Flash, Vintage Performers, Luminary, Dynamic, Dynamic Rookies and Lightspeed. These inserts feature action photography…

You don’t always remember moments that grip you, but sometimes, they last a lifetime. Bart Starr’s passing on May 26, 2019 reminded me of just such a moment. Let me take you back in time to Jan. 14, 1968. I was a little kid lying on the living room floor, watching Super Bowl II with my dad. We lived in Oswego, N.Y.—a full 888 miles from Green Bay, Wisconsin. But there was a magic in that game that touched me, and much of it hinged on the precision play of Bart Starr. That name kept coming up on the grainy telecast. It was a perfect name for a football hero. Bart Starr. As perfect a name as Mickey Mantle was in baseball. Two syllables, two words that rhymed, and a…