Do you want it back

[skipcareyisfat]

i'd love to have quite a few of my old batting helmets back. i had some really nice ones from the 70s and early 80s but i sold them 10 years ago or so. another one i sold about 12 years ago was greg olson's 1991 braves helmet. it was great. had the us/can flags, the black and gold numbers, the abc logo was blacked out. it was a perfect braves example from that era. i sort of regretted letting it go shortly after i sold it, especially since the 91 season was my favorite as a braves fan. as luck would have it, it resurfaced a couple of weeks ago and i bought it (again). here are a couple of pics.

[yanks12025]

Thats good that some of you guys get your items back.. To me to get the bat back i would have to pay alot of money. Because now i know how rare it is. I believe that it was only 1 of like 20 maybe even less then 20 left. I'm talking larry berra bats not when they wrote Yogi.

[Vintagedeputy]

Some time ago, I had a luggage tag from the Minnesota North Stars. It was found in a rental car by my brother who worked for Enterprise. I dont remember who the player was but it would be neat if I still had that to see if he was some star player. I think I lost it over the years.

[33bird]

I had a Game worn Adrian Dantley 1974 Notre Dame jersey-he even signed it that way. Picked it up for 300.00 from somebody who had no clue about it. Then I stuck it on ebay and sold for almost 1200.00 (a dumb buy it now price by me). Then it got put in an American Memorabilia auction and sold for almost 4500.00! I just wished I would have kept it instead of chasing the big profit-OR-at least consigned it myself and made a 4000.00 profit. Big dumbie.
Greg

[bat_master]

Out of all of the hall of fame bats that I've sold over the past four years including Kaline, Cepeda, Bench, Seaver, Morgan, Perez, Yount, Brett, Carew, McCovey, Carlton, Jackson, Molitor, Cobb, Mazeroski, Aaron, Mathews, and Puckett, by far the one I miss the most is the 1971-72 Adirondack Willie Mays.

Great markings, great use, great bat. I'm not saying I would necessarily like to have it back because I really do prefer Hillerich & Bradsby bats for my own collection. It was a great bat though.

[sicollector1954@insightbb.com]

Before Ebay--Antique Roadshow--and History Detectives, I bought an autograph book that the person selling it said had been passed down in his family for many years. He had placed in add in the local paper and I ended up buying the book for $1000.00. Inside were single page autographs starting with U.S. Grant--on page two his wife--on page three his son, etc. Each had the date March 26, 1873 under their names. Also in the book-- pages were signed by the entire cabinet of the president as well as Chester A. Arthur and Rutherford B. Hayes. In addition, there were cut signatures of Daniel Webster, Henry Longfellow, Horace Greeley and 15 or so lesser people whose names I did not recognize.

I tried for 3 years to figure out the connection of how all of these people could have met at one time or another and came up with nothing. I even took the book to several other people in the industry and nothing. Finally, there was a Jimmie Foxx Hall of Fame front signed gold plaque card coming up for auction which I needed for my collection and R and R Enterprizes was looking at the book at that particular time. They called and offered $1250.00 for it stating that why would I want to go to the trouble of paying for it to be shipped back. Just sell it why its here. Knowing I needed cash for the Foxx card, I finally said yes.

Luckily, I was able to get the card in the auction and still have it which I am happy about. However,several months later, I happened to see a Lelands auction with a U.S. Grant--March 26th, 1876 first page signature...................

The title heading of the auction was for Grants "personal" autograph book. I never checked to see what the final sale price was but I sometime wish I had found the money to buy the Foxx card somewhere else.

[reed1216]

I consigned an early game worn Walter Payton jersey a few years ago and have regretted it ever since. It surfaced again in the most recent Vintage Authentics auction and it sold for too much to justify buying it back. That one hurts, as it's a tremendous jersey.

[jdr3]

I want my Ranzino Smith shooting shirt back.

[thomecollector]

I have a couple of things I wish I had back. I traded them off to get something I wanted more at the time. One is a '98 jim Thome Big Stick. It was absolutely hammered with use. The second was a pair of red Nike batting gloves of hos. They were the ones with the velcro on the right glove. I got them signed. Man, I wish I had them back! Bob!