Innholdsfortegnelse for August 15, 2022 i Sports Collectors Digest

LEADING OFF The 2022 MLB All-Star Game was kind of like modern baseball cards — colorful, edgy, innovative, diverse and geared toward a younger generation of fans. But it left a lot to be desired. In many ways, the July 19 spectacle was a made-for-TV show focused on young individual stars instead of the game. Just as many veteran collectors prefer vintage cards, I prefer vintage baseball. This year’s All-Star Game left me longing for the good old days when the event was usually a true classic that meant something and that pure baseball fans actually looked forward to. The classic all-star games of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s not only featured MLB’s biggest stars, but it showcased legends of the game that had already secured their place in baseball…

Collectors, the parent company of PSA, is adding a Collectors Vault to its myriad of services, giving trading card enthusiasts an opportunity to get cards graded and stored with the same company. Collectors, which also owns the Goldin Co. auction house, joins PWCC Marketplace, Beckett and eBay as collectible companies that provide vault service. The all-in-one service will allow collectors to get cards graded by PSA, transferred to a secure storage vault, and then sold through the Goldin Co. marketplace. Items purchased through Goldin can also be quickly submitted to the Collectors Vault for storage. The vault features 24/7 armed guards on duty every day as well as Class 3 torch and tool-rated UL vault doors and cutting-edge seismic motion detectors. Given the vault’s Delaware location, collectors will not have…

ALABAMA Aug 13 AL, Gardendale (North Birmingham). The Flip Sports Card & Collectibles Trade Show, Gardendale Civic Center, 857 Main Street Gardendale, Alabama 35071. SH: 10am-4pm. T: 165+ ($65-90). A: $5-10. Contact: Daniel TheFlipTradeShow@Gmail.com Aug 20 AL, Scottsboro. Scottsboro Sports Card & Memorabilia Show, Scottsboro Goose Pond Civic Center, 1165 Ed Hembree Dr, Scottsboro, AL 35769. SH 9am-2pm. T: 150. A: Free. Contact Stephen Moore 256-599 0989, Stephen@jacksonssportscards.com – www. jacksonssportscards.com Aug 20 AL, Sheffield. Muscle Shoals Sportscards and Memorabilia Show, Clarion Inn, 4900 Hatch Boulevard, Sheffield, AL 35660. SH: 8am-2pm. T: 30. A: Free. Contact: Leroy Willis 256-412-2184, popandhoney@yahoo.com Aug 27 AL, Birmingham. Vintage Card Show at Rickwood Field (Americas Oldest Ball Park), 1137 2nd Ave. West, Birmingham, AL 35204. SH: 9am-3pm. T: 20 (8 foot $30). A: Free.…

Despite his huge personality and impact on baseball, David Ortiz’s rookie card has been flying under the radar for years. His first cards showed up in 1997 in sets from Fleer and Donruss. The latter was a 1997 Donruss Signature Series card with an autograph by Ortiz in the wrong spot: He signed directly on his photo instead of the area earmarked for a signature at the bottom of the card. There were several thousand issued, some with red borders and (more limited) some with green borders. Recent eBay auctions include one ungraded green Signature Series card that brought $304 on 25 bids. We also saw eight ungraded red versions sell for prices between $150 and $175. (We told you he was undervalued!) One confusing element of Ortiz rookies is…

Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay owns one of the largest sports memorabilia collections in the hobby. He added another amazing piece to his collection July 24 when he purchased Muhammad Ali’s WBC championship belt for a stunning $6.18 million. Ali reclaimed the heavyweight title by knocking out George Foreman during the 1974 “Rumble in the Jungle” in Zaire. The belt is one of the most expensive sports memorabilia items ever sold, trailing the $9.2 million sale of Diego Maradona’s 1986 World Cup jersey and the 1892 Olympic Manifesto, which sold for $8.8 million. The belt was part of “the most comprehensive Muhammad Ali collection ever to come to auction,” according to Heritage Auctions. The 1,600-item collection, owned by Troy Kinunen, the owner and CEO of MEARS Authentications, was part of…

Within the wide world of sports card collecting, there are niches and circles that take collectors a step or two further than the average hobbyist. Take, for example, the niche of collecting Don Mattingly cards. While there is certainly nothing odd about that, dig deeper in this niche and you will find a circle of collectors not only after Mattingly’s “regular” cards but also many other varieties, including: printing errors; test-proof variants; Score Magic Motion Trivia Cards with information about Mattingly Trivial Pursuit game cards with Mattingly’s name printed as an answer to a trivia question; and cards where Donnie Baseball makes a cameo appearance in the background (including his face on a fan’s shirt on Joe Carter’s 1994 Pinnacle card). All of these and more are on what is…

The one completely new thing I learned how to do during the pandemic was to pick the locks on old gumball machines. Over the last few years, an untold number of us have spent more time (and money) chasing our collecting passions than ever before. And in the summer of 2020, I paid big money (almost four figures) for a long-sought “holy grail” — a 1950s Oak Manufacturing combination card and gumball machine. A 5-cent version, in full working condition. The top panel, through which you load cards and gumballs (or tiny trinkets), was unlocked. But the compartment at the bottom-center of the machine’s back, where the nickels settled, was locked. Tightly. I had the notion, implanted in part by the seller, that a key could be found online. If…

The cleats Bobby Thomson wore when he hit the “Shot Heard Round The World” home run in 1951 and a Ted Williams home jersey were the highlights of Hunt Auctions’ July All-Star Live Auction at Capital One PLAY BALL PARK in Los Angeles. The 18th annual auction surrounding the MLB All-Star Game featured hundreds of historic baseball artifacts, including a Ted Williams Boston Red Sox home jersey, which topped the auction at $258,000. The auction also featured several historic archives from the New York and San Francisco Giants from the Stoneham Family Collection. Charles and Horace Stoneham owned the Giants, which appeared in six World Series from 1921 through 1962 and won the 1954 Fall Classic. Charles Stoneham purchased the team in 1919 and moved it to San Francisco in…