Innholdsfortegnelse for October 9, 2020 i Sports Collectors Digest

“It’s time for Dodger baseball!” For those of us who grew up baseball fans in Southern California, we were privileged to hear those words before every Dodger game from the voice of the Dodgers, Vin Scully, arguably the best baseball announcer in history. For 67 years, Scully entertained and informed the masses over the airwaves, detailing every pitch, hit, strikeout, home run, no-hitter or perfect game as only Vinny could. “Fernando Valenzuela has pitched a no-hitter. If you have a sombrero, throw it to the sky.” I recall the days where you could even hear Vin Scully while at Dodger Stadium, the result of so many people listening to him on their transistor radios in the days way before iPhones. National audiences also often got to enjoy the words of…

2020 PANINI MOSAIC FOOTBALL Mosaic Football makes its debut for colorful Opti-chrome Prizm technology, and it’s filled with parallels, inserts and autographs of all the best rookies, current stars and retired legends the NFL has to offer. Collect the 300-card base set, find top draft picks and look for limited numbers of Pro Bowl inserts. Only found in Hobby Boxes, chase the following stunning inserts: In it to Win it, Center Stage, Swagger, Montage (four images on each card), Stained Glass and Overdrive. Exclusive to Hobby Boxes find Autographs Mosaic and Rookie Autographs Mosaic, and hunt for SSP Gold and Black parallels. Look for the following parallels of the Base and Rookies only found in Hobby Boxes: Red, Blue (#’d /99), Purple (#’d /49), White (#’d /25), Gold (#’d /10)…

Lou Brock, a legendary outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals and the all-time leader in stolen bases in the National League, died in a hospital on Sept 6. He was 81. Brock will be remembered most for his base stealing ability, his 938 stolen bases second only to Rickey Henderson’s 1,406 in MLB history, and with that and other talents he was a catalyst for the Cards, helping them win the World Series in 1964 and 1967. “The most important thing about base stealing is not the steal of the base, but distracting the pitcher’s concentration,” the Base Burglar told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1974. “If I can do that, then the hitter will have a better pitch to swing at and I will get a better chance to…

A diverse collection of more than 1,000 sports cards and sports memorabilia items, some of the most interesting Clean Sweep Auctions has ever featured, makes up the Major October 14th Auction that is underway. Several single-owner collections fresh to the hobby make up the foundation of the auction. They include an originally owned early 1950s baseball card collection with a 1951 Bowman Mantle, a run of PSA 8-PSA 10s from the late 1950s through the 1970s that are generally outstanding for their grades, a baseball HOF autograph collection, and a collection of 1980s NBA game jerseys and equipment. The key card items in the auction include an E90-1 Shoeless Joe Jackson SGC 1.5, a T206 Tinker SGC 4 with a Lenox back, a T206 Ty Cobb Green Background SGC 5,…

GLORY DAYS — In the space of a few weeks, Major League Baseball lost three familiar names from those glory days of the 1960s and ’70s. Typically, collecting interest in our athletic heroes surges upon their passing. In the cases of Tom Seaver and Lou Brock—both Hall of Famersand longtime Yankee Horace Clarke, that’s exactly what happened, even though values didn’t spike along with interest. Let’s take a look…. THE HOSS — Horace Clarke became the face of that “flat” period in Yankee history between the Mickey Mantle era and the blossoming of the Thurman Munson-led title teams. The so-called “Horace Clarke Era” started in earnest in 1965, when he came up while Mickey Mantle’s storied career was winding down. The era ended in May 1974, when the Yanks sold…

SEPTEMBER 17: 2019-20 Panini Opulence Basketball 18: 2020 Bowman Chrome Baseball 18: 2020 Leaf Metal All-American Bowl Football 23: 2019-20 Panini Contenders Optic Basketball 23: 2020 Panini Select UEFA Euro Soccer 23: 2020 Topps Heritage Minor League Baseball 25: 2020 Panini Absolute Football 25: 2020 Leaf Trinity Football 25: 2020 Panini Chronicles Baseball 25: 2020 Panini National Treasures Collegiate Football 30: 2020 Topps Baseball Complete Factory Set 30: 2019-20 Panini Encased Basketball 30: 2020 Topps Triple Threads Baseball 30: 2020-21 Upper Deck Team Canada Juniors Hockey 30: 2020 Panini Origins Football OCTOBER 2: 2020-21 Panini Contenders Draft Picks Basketball 7: 2020 Panini Flawless Collegiate Football 7: 2020 Panini Prizm WNBA Basketball 7: 2019-20 Upper Deck Premier Hockey 9: 2020 Panini Prizm Racing NASCAR 9: 2020 Panini Spectra Football 9: 2019-20…

Death of Seaver, aka Tom Terrific, brings back fond memories of the Hall of Famer; an unforgettable face of baseball, he also became a collector favorite Tom Seaver sat at a table in the Virginia State Fairgrounds on July 23, 1994, a long line of fans waiting for their moment with the Hall of Famer. At the time, he was a fairly recent addition to the Hall, having been inducted in 1992. So on this warm mid-summer day, he was a main attraction at an autograph show hosted by Tuff Stuff magazine in Richmond, Va. As the publication’s editor, I loved having access to those events, coordinated by our show department twice a year in the 1980s and ‘90s. I always picked up interesting stories and insights, and sometimes, the…

1. $230,100 on 82 bids: 2018-19 Panini National Treasures Luca Doncic, #54/99, auto patch (BGS 9.5) 2. $180,100 on 52 bids: 2018-19 Panini National Treasures Luca Doncic, #54/99, auto patch (BGS 9) 3. $81,700 on 123 bids: 2013-14 Panini National Treasures Giannis Antetokounmpo, #35/99, auto patch 4. $60,100 on 103 bids: 2018-19 Panini National Treasures Luca Doncic, #81/99 (BGS 8) 5. $59,999 on 1 bid: 2003-04 Topps Chrome LeBron James Refractor (PSA 10) 6. $56,400 on 77 bids: 1996-97 Topps Chrome Kobe Bryant Refractor (BGS 9.5) 7. $54,595 on 1 bid: Babe Ruth single-signed baseball (JSA, Mint) 8. $53,501 on 75 bids: 2017-18 Panini Donruns Jayson Tatum Optic Gold Vinyl, #1/1 (ungraded) 9. $52,777 on 45 bids: 2018-19 Panini Contenders Rookie Ticket Luka Doncic Cracked Ice, auto (PSA 10) 10.…

George Mikan, one of the pioneers of professional basketball known as Mr. Basketball, leads off Memory Lane’s massive 20th Anniversary Auction that will also feature the likes of Ty Cobb, Jim Brown, Michael Jordan, Mike Trout, Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, to name a few of the big names. But it is the 1949 Bowman George Mikan rookie card, the holy grail of vintage basketball cards, that headlines the massive, 1,315-lot auction that runs from Sept. 19 to Oct. 10. No other Memory Lane auction has matched the size of this one. Mikan—the NBA’s marquee name before Russell, Chamberlain, Robertson, Abdul-Jabbar, Magic, Bird and Jordan—was 6-foot-10, redefined the game as one for big men and led his teams (Chicago American Gears and Minneapolis Lakers) to seven championships. The Mikan card,…

NOTE: TO SEND A LISTING, please follow the style seen here and email dstrege@aimmedia.com. In light of the pandemic, be sure to check ahead to ensure the show is still scheduled. ALABAMA Nov 7 AL, Scottsboro. Scottsboro Sports Cards & Memorabilia Show, Goose Pond Civic Center, 1165 Ed Hembree Dr., Scottsboro, AL, 35769. SH: 9am-2pm, T: 60+, A: free. Contact: Stephen Moore @ 256-599-0989 or stephen@jacksonssportscards.com CONNECTICUT Sept 26 CT, Trumbull. Trumbull Cards Show, Trinity Episcopal Church, 1734 Huntington Turnpike, Trumbull, CT 06611. SH: 9am-2pm, T: 20+, A: $1. Contact: Karen or Fred Riso – PH: 203-265-1813, Email: kmrfdr@gmail.com Sept 27 CT, Milford. Milford Elks Lodge, 124 New Haven Ave., Milford, CT 06460. SH: 9am-2 pm, T: 40, A: $1. Contact: Ned Skinnon PH: 860-919-0879; email: nskinnon@cox.net Oct 3 CT,…